Professor
Professor Hojo

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Professor Hojo is the executive director of the Shinra Electric Power Company's Research and Development division. He develops various biological weapons for the company, but independently pursues his own research in secret. Hojo is a mad scientist who conducts inhumane experiments without regard for ethics or morals. He is mastermind behind SOLDIER, the Jenova Project, the birth of Sephiroth, the Reunion Theory, and many other dark projects. Hojo is a mad scientist, passionately driven by intellectual curiosity and nothing material. He is self-righteous and pompous, claiming to have the greatest intellect in the world and speaking condescendingly to others. He worships science, desiring only to pursue knowledge, understand the planet, and travel the cosmos. Hojo conducts inhumane experiments on live subjects without remorse or regard for decency. He despises his own ignorance, having underestimated certain test subjects like Cloud and powers surpassing science like Sephiroth. He never apprises Shinra leaders of his work, keeping his research and plans to himself. Tseng theorizes Hojo's sinister personality was influenced by his closeness to Jenova. Hojo regards everyone and everything as test subjects. He is mostly hated by his colleagues, who view his eccentricity, willingness to switch sides for the sake of research, and unethical experiments as dangerous. Hojo felt inferior to Gast's genius and eventually murdered him. He detests Hollander, sharing a rivalry over their separate Jenova Projects and power struggle for their division's leadership, dismissing him as a second-rate scientist and calling his Project G subjects monsters. He admires Lucrecia for her intelligence and appearance, marrying her and bringing Sephiroth into the world together, but they clash over research, and he also used her as a research subject. Hojo never explicitly mentions being Sephiroth's father, but Sephiroth is his primary motivation beyond science.