Orbital Density

The first year in Nibelhein was fairly dull. Vincent shadowed professor Hojo, supervised the comings and goings of the laboratory staff, explored the mountains around the village, killed the monsters that come near the ShinRa mansion and got to know Lucretia Crescent, professor Gast's assistant. Lucretia was tall, charming and very beautiful and Vincent gradually developed an infatuation and fell in love. Biology may have dictated that the cross-dressing Turk be naturally drawn to men, but her upbringing had conditioned her to see other women as sexually attractive as well. That Lucretia found Vincent similarly alluring was another plus, but the relationship did not become particularly intimate as the Turk was unwilling to let the pretty scientist in on the truth of her gender.

Then at the beginning of the second year in Nibelhein Lucretia discovered that Vincent was a Valentine and their relationship went pear-shaped. Lucretia had been Vincent's father's assistant on the Chaos Project and felt responsible for the man's death as Grimoire had thrown himself in front of her when his research exploded. Vincent had known this already -she did read the background checks- and tried to reassure Lucretia that she wasn't to blame. This however only seemed to compound the scientist's guilt, driving her further away from Vincent. So much further away, in fact, that Lucretia attached herself to professor Hojo.

Vincent had decided early on in her time at the mansion that she did not like professor Hojo in the slightest. Te man had no morals whatsoever and was a complete sociopath, doing all manner of repugnant things in the name of so-called 'science'. Worse, the Turk suspected that the professor had somehow discovered her true gender. Vincent may have been ShinRa's prize Turk, but Hojo was the company's golden goose. If the professor decided he wanted Vincent as his newest test subject the Turk wasn't sure her status and position within the company would protect her.

At times like this Vincent really wished she had Veld there to back her up. Instead she made do with sending emails back to her partner voicing her unease.

When Lucretia became pregnant a few months later Hojo immediately expressed a desire to experiment on the unborn foetus. Vincent objected quite fiercely, but since it was Lucretia's body and her and Hojo's child the Turk had to accept that there was nothing to be done but put up with it. She did however start to monitor -and keep copies of- Hojo's lab notes and hack into the professor's computer to find out what else the foul man was up to. These files were forwarded to secure storage in a Turk safe-house, inaccessible to anyone without the passwords.

What Vincent found and stole copies of was not in the slightest bit pleasant; Hojo belonged in a maximum security prison, not a sponsored laboratory. Nonetheless, the Turk kept her peace for the company's sake until Lucretia became very ill in the seventh month of her pregnancy. While trying to keep her mind off the pretty scientist's deteriorating condition Vincent stumbled across a file describing the parentage of 'specimen S', which was Hojo's designation for the unborn child. What the Turk learned and stole in those scant minutes had her loading her gun, prepping her Materia and storming down to the lab in a blind fury.

The baby in Lucretia's womb was Vincent's. Hojo had discovered the Turk's gender from studying a stolen cell sample and decided that a male version of her would make an excellent specimen and the perfect host for the S-cells the professor was studying. Hojo had therefore used his own Y chromosome in conjunction with two-thirds of Vincent's genome and padded out the difference with genetic material from Lucretia. The foetus -'specimen S'- was the result, healthy despite being injected with alien cells while still in the womb.

On the way down the stairs Vincent decided to call her son Sephiroth, after the manifestations of Gaia: She'd liked the old legends as a child. The Turk barged into the laboratory and slammed the door behind her, eyes narrowing as Hojo looked up from his notes.

The subsequent fight was messy, loud and violent, destroying half of the equipment in the main lab and only ending when the professor got off a lucky shot that hit the Turk full in the chest. Vincent hung on grimly to consciousness to the bitter end, rasping out her demands with one hand fisted in the mad scientist's coat:

"Give me... my son. Give... Sephiroth to..."

The world went black as she heard Hojo murmur, "What a good name for the manifestation of my lovely Jenova. Sephiroth he will be."


Women think differently to men, so they react differently to situations. Hojo set off Vincent's 'over-protective mother' instincts, which he will later come to regret. Oh, and Sephiroth has a rather different parentage.

Edited for spelling mistakes. Oops.