I WILL point out the one VERY interesting thing in EC. We actually see Jenova's face again. And she looks suspiciously like a certain someone Sephiroth is searching for...
Please control your screaming.
I guess the censors are way less antsy on mobile games. I really like this new design. I think this clears some things up on Seph and the photograph. He's literally seeing her face.
Since helmet-head was a thing in both Remake and Crisis Core Reunion, I'm hc-ing here and now that the version from EC is Sephiroth's hallucination.
“All of the SOLDIERs had Jenova cells put inside them. Jenova was a calamity that fell from the sky a long, long time ago and tried to destroy the planet. Anyway, there was one SOLDIER named Sephiroth, who was better than the rest. But when he found out about the terrible experiments that made him, he began to hate Shinra. And then, over time, he began to hate everything.”
Hojo: Now, Sephiroth, you must hone your abilities to kill anything in one blow. Then progress to killing multiple enemies in one blow. It is a highly efficient method of destroying your enemies as well as protecting payloads and escorting high level personel.
Sephiroth, 9 years old: I want to cut objects so fast it takes a second before they break in half.
Hojo: ...What?
Sephiroth: I want to cut things in half so I can stand there calmly while everything falls apart around me. It'll look really cool.
Hojo: And impractical. That's physically impossible, boy-
"Each child needs at least one adult who is irrationally crazy about him or her." (YES i am using an actual quote from an actual psychologist for my fucking babyroth post)