Hojo

Job: Head of the Science Department
Residence: Midgar

Bio:
Hojo worked under Gast during the Jenova Project, and has constantly been labeled the inferior scientist. Sephiroth is his son, and likely he persuaded Lucrecia to use their child in the experiment. He and Vincent were rivals, and when Vincent came to him after Sephiroth's birth, possibly about Lucrecia's deteriorating condition, Hojo shot him. He experimented on Vincent and locked him in the basement of the Nibelheim mansion, claiming that the TUrk had gotten in the way of his research.

After Gast's disappearance, Hojo sought him out and at last found him in Snow Village with Ifalna and Aeris. He had Gast killed for resisting and brought the two Cetra back to his lab, where he kept them until their escape seven years later. Striving to produce a work to rival Gast's, Hojo became obsessed with Jenova and conducted numerous experiments with it in Nibelheim, thus creating the so-called Sephiroth clones from the survivors of the disaster. His work is all that matters to him, and he doesn't care what it takes to achieve greatness.


References in the Script:

First Appearance: The Shinra Building: Conference Hall

Other Appearances:
The Shinra Building: 67th Floor Laboratory
Costa del Sol: The Beach
Northern Crater: The Jenova Reunion
Midgar: Taking Control of the Sister Ray
Midgar: Confronting Hojo

Appearances in Flashback:
Snow Village: Gast's Videotapes

Letter:
Hojo's Game for Finding Vincent

Mention:
Cloud's Story: Sephiroth on Hojo