Weiss the Immaculate
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- "The time has come to cleanse this planet. The pure will be "spared" for the cause, while the tainted will be hunted down and exterminated. They shall be slashed, strangled, and slaughtered. Beaten, stabbed, and crushed. Garroted and impaled. Shot and executed without mercy. The time has come to cleanse this world."
- —Weiss
Weiss the Immaculate (純白の帝王ヴァイス, Junpaku no Teiō Vaisu?, lit. "Emperor Weiss the Pure White") is a member of the Tsviets and the primary antagonist of Dirge of Cerberus -Final Fantasy VII-. He is voiced by Dave Boat in the English version and Jouji Nakata in the Japanese version. His name comes from the German word Weiß, meaning white.
A mysterious SOLDIER who commands Deepground, Weiss declared a hunt on the world three years after the Meteor crisis. He received the title of emperor, as he is the strongest Tsviet, as well as the first member. All Deepground soldiers fear his power and follow him; however, it is said that they rarely see him directly. He is the elder brother of Nero the Sable, and they are very close to each other.
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Appearance and Personality
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Weiss is a tall man with a muscular build. His most distinguishing feature is his shoulder-length, extremely spiky white hair, which sticks up in all directions at the front and sides and partially covers his face. His eyes are blue with yellow rings around the pupils. While his upper body is completely bare, he wears white pants tied with a black sash similar in appearance to a karate uniform, and knee high boots. His Omega form adds a metal skirt resembling Samurai armor. Weiss often sports a broad smile during battle or when he gets excited.
Weiss is a highly charismatic leader who is very confident in his abilities. Although he usually appears calm, he is also shown to be quite insane, caring very little for his own subordinates and taking delight in their deaths just as much as those of his enemies. This is evident in his reaction to the player Tsviet's death after they nearly sacrificed themselves to stop the Restrictor. He also seems to be brash and reckless, killing the Restrictor even knowing that he would most likely die from the virus as a result.
StoryEdit
Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-Edit
- "But, will he accept his fate willingly?"
- —Weiss
Added by PaladinDragonWeiss and Nero appear soon after Zack Fair defeats Genesis Rhapsodos. They are seen wearing SOLDIER First Class uniforms with the Deepground SOLDIER crest on them. Weiss and Nero take Genesis's body away in a helicopter. Though previously unacquainted with Genesis, Weiss, and Nero were aware that they, along with the other colored Tsviets, were spliced with his genes.
This takes place after the Nibelheim Incident and the ensuing experiments on Zack and Cloud. It was revealed in the Crisis Core Ultimania that Genesis was alive and there was an attempt to persuade him to join the rebellion against the Restrictors. However, Genesis rejects the offer due to a desire to regain his SOLDIER honor. It is at this time that Genesis seals himself in a cavern below Midgar.
Dirge of Cerberus -Final Fantasy VII-Edit
- "There is nothing that can destroy me. Nothing."
- —Weiss
During the events of the Online multiplayer mode on Dirge of Cerberus, Weiss is restrained by chains attached to his throne inside Mako Reactor 0. He begins to speak to the Restrictor and tells him he would like to try out his new swords. After the Restrictor breaks the chains, Weiss takes hold of his swords and tells him he wanted to fight him handicapped as he was confident he was more powerful.
As he does this, the Restrictor calls forth Azul the Cerulean and Rosso the Crimson and tells Weiss that if he wants to fight handicapped, he can; against Azul and Rosso. Weiss beats them both easily, but Azul transforms into Arch Azul and Rosso into Bloodburst Rosso. Still, Weiss proves to be more than a match for the two Tsviets. Unable to attack the Restrictor, Weiss orders the player to shoot him.
The Restrictor proves powerful, but is defeated by the player. In rage, he forces his short Gunblade into the player's stomach and watches as they drop to the floor. Weiss takes this opportunity to attack and kill the Restrictor. He carries out the execution despite the fact that along with the Restrictor's death came the release of a virus inside his body, a defense mechanism designed to deter Weiss from attacking the Restrictors. As the dying Restrictor explains this to Weiss, Weiss retorts that it was he who said that death is always with you as long as you are a part of Deepground. Soon after the Restrictor falls, Weiss and the Tsviets laugh at his demise.
Added by NeloAngeloAt the time of the Kalm revival festival, the Worldwide Network that was broken since the Meteor disaster has been fully restored. The fragments of Professor Hojo's digitized mind that were previously spread were about to reform. Hojo invades Weiss's body while he is performing a Synaptic Net Dive to find the cure to the time-released virus the Restrictors infected him with. This virus was meant to control him and ultimately kill him within three days if the Restrictors' signal disappeared.
Hojo, through Weiss, had Deepground abduct those not under the effects of Geostigma to serve as incubators of pure Mako. Hojo would need purity to enable Weiss to summon and absorb Omega. This gives Weiss abilities like higher superhuman strength, speed and endurance far beyond Vincent's, and he is easily able to overcome him. However, Vincent is able to turn the tables by embracing Chaos's power, ultimately leading to Weiss's initial defeat.
Once Weiss is defeated, Nero, who had been watching, attempts to merge with his brother. Hojo orders Nero to stop, knowing he would not be able to control Omega with an impure being inside him. Neither Weiss nor Nero care, and Hojo is finally destroyed as Nero joins with Weiss. It is then that Weiss invokes Omega's power by a sense of compulsion and vanishes in a ball of light. Weiss is later, supposedly, defeated by Vincent in Chaos's form. However, Weiss's body is carried off by an awakened Genesis, who tells his "brother" that they "still have much work to do".
BattleEdit
- Main article: Weiss Empowered
Weiss is fought as a boss twice at the end of Chapter 11. At first he cannot be killed, as it is extremely difficult to hit him and any hits do not affect his health, so the player must lose. He is fought again in a regular battle once Vincent has been augmented by Chaos. Weiss then comes back fused with the Omega as the game's final boss, Omega Weiss.
WeaponEdit
Added by BlueHighwindWeiss wields a pair of lever-action sword revolvers forged by Argento. Though only officially referred to as "Weiss's weapons", they are identified by the emblems on their hilts: Heaven (天, Ame?) on the one carried in his right hand, and Earth (地, Tsuchi?) on the one carried in his left.
Sometimes referred to as gunblades by fans, Weiss's weapons are more accurately compared to various real weapons that attempted to combine firearms with edged weapons. In the Final Fantasy VII 10th Anniversary Ultimania, the weapons are described as, "a set [of weapons] that combine a revolver-type gun and a katana, with the reload action pictured in the concept art".
When fighting against Omega Weiss, he is using different swords, a pair of long katanas similar in design to Sephiroth's Masamune.
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Model in Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-.
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Weiss in-game.
EtymologyEdit
Weiss (correctly spelled "weiß") is the German word for "white", which shows the relationship between him and his brother Nero (which is Italian for "black"). His subtitle, Immaculate, refers to pure whiteness and is derived from the Roman Catholic belief of the Immaculate Conception, which is where the Virgin Mary was born without the stain of Original Sin, similar to how Weiss was created to be untainted from the Lifestream.
TriviaEdit
- Although his official date of birth is unknown, taking into account the dates of the Jenova Project and his younger brother Nero's age, Weiss is probably around 24 years old.
