Messy FF7 Dialogue vs. Vastly Improved Fan Translation

This appears to be a fragmented script or dialogue, mixing English and Japanese. Here is the reconstructed and formatted text:

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Dialogue/Script Reconstruction:

“Right?”
「よぉ、わかります」 (Yo, I get it.)

“You can use my stuffed body”
「この作りモンの身体」 (This stuffed body.)
“So why no use this stuffed body o’ mine? It’s for the future o’ the planet, after all!”
「星の未来のために」 (For the future of the Planet.)
“for the future of the Planet.”
「使わせてもらいましょ」 (Let me use it.)

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{Barret}
“Goddamn jackass,”
「しょうがねえやつだぜ……」 (He’s a damn idiot…)
“Now he’s just goin’ in circles…”

“Just think about it…”
「あのな、考えてみろよ。」 (Yo, look at it.)
“Yo, look at it this way, {Cloud}. How many people in the world you think really understand themselves?”

How many people in this world
<0xE3><0x80><0x80>自分のこと、全部わかってるやつなんて (How many people do you think really understand themselves?)

do ya think
<0xE3><0x80><0x80>世の中に何人いると思ってんだ？ (How many people do you think are in this world?)

really understand themselves?”

“People get depressed in life”
「誰だって、わけわかんねえから」 (Everyone just doesn’t know.)
“Everyone’s just tryin’ to figure things out. We all got our own troubles, y’know?”

because they don’t know what’s up.”
<0xE3><0x80><0x80>あ～だこ～だ、なやむんだろ？ (Ah~ well, I guess that’s what it is?)

“But, they go on living.”
「それでもみんななんとか生きてる。」 (But everyone still manages to live.)
“But we find a way to keep on truckin’. You can’t just up an’ leave the race. That ain’t how things work.”

They don’t run away…
<0xE3><0x80><0x80>逃げ出したりしないでよう。 (Don’t run away.)
“That’s just how it is.”
<0xE3><0x80><0x80>そういうもんじゃねえのか？ (Isn’t that just how it is?)

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{Sephiroth}
“The ability to change one’s looks,”
「他人の記憶にあわせて」 (Matching the memories of others.)
“Jenova is possessed of a certain ability. She can transform, you see—change her appearance, her voice, her behavior to match the memories in other people’s minds.”

voice, and words, is the power
<0xE3><0x80><0x80>自分の姿、声、言動を (One’s appearance, voice, and actions)
<0xE3><0x80><0x80>変化させるのは (Changing)
<0xE3><0x80><0x80>ジェノバの能力だ (Jenova‘s ability.)

“Inside of you, Jenova”
「おまえの中のジェノバが (The Jenova inside you)
“The part of Jenova inside of you attuned to {Tifa}’s memories and created your so-called self.”
<0xE3><0x80><0x80>TIFAの記憶にあわせて (Matching TIFA’s memories)
<0xE3><0x80><0x80>おまえをつくりだした (Created you.)

“Out of {Tifa}’s memory…”
「TIFAの記憶に登場する (Appearing in TIFA’s memories)
“It scoured the many young men inside her recollections…”
<0xE3><0x80><0x80>少年たち…… (The boys…)

“A boy named {Cloud} might’ve just”
「その中にはCLOUDという名の (Among them, there may be one named CLOUD…)
“and among them may very well have been a boy named {Cloud}…”
<0xE3><0x80><0x80>少年がいたのかもしれないな (Maybe there was a boy.)

been a part of them.”

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{Aerith}
“……first off,”
「……はじめはね」 (First of all,)
“…You surprised me at first. You were just like him, and…”
<0xE3><0x80><0x80>そっくりだったから (Because you were so similar)
<0xE3><0x80><0x80>気になった (I was curious.)

“Two completely different people,”
「全然別人なんだけど、そっくり」 (They are completely different, but so similar.)
“It wasn’t your face or your clothes—it was you.”

but look exactly the same.”

“The way you walk, gesture…”
「歩きかた、手の動かしかた……」 (The way you walk, the way you move your hands…)
“The way you walked…the way you carried yourself…”

“I think I must have seen him again, in you…”
「あなたの中に彼を見ていた……」 (I saw him inside you…)
“Whenever I looked at you…I saw him.”

“But you’re different.”
「でも、ちがうの」 (But you are different.)
“But you’re not him.”

“Things are different…”
「いまは、ちがう……」 (Now, it’s different…)
“And that’s okay…”

“You finally think you’re making a”
「ミッドガルの下にいりゃ (If you live under Midgar)
“Just when I manage to eke out a living under Midgar, a huge hunk of roof comes crashin’ down…”
living in the pits of Midgar,
<0xE3><0x80><0x80>そこそこのくらしができると (When you manage to live somewhat)
and then a big piece of scrap like
<0xE3><0x80><0x80>思ってたのに、まさかあの (You thought it would be, but no way…)
that falls down here…what’s next?”
<0xE3><0x80><0x80>デッカイやつが落ちてくるとは……」 (That a big thing is falling…)

“What’re you, retarded?”
「やめとけ！」 (Stop it!)
“The hell’re you on about? Midgar’s in a state of emergency!”
<0xE3><0x80><0x80>ミッドガルは非常警戒体制に入ってる (Midgar is in a state of emergency!)

{Cid}
“…gave birth…?”
「うんだ？」 (Huh?)
“Gave birth?”

“Isn’t Jenova Sephiroth’s mother?”
「セフィロスの母親は (Sephiroth’s mother is)
“But I thought that Jenova broad was Sephiroth’s mom.”
<0xE3><0x80><0x80>ジェノバじゃねえのか？ (Isn’t it Jenova?)

“That isn’t completely wrong,”
「それは……間違いではないが」 (It… isn’t wrong, but)
“That’s true, too, in a manner of speaking.”
<0xE3><0x80><0x80>ひとつのたとえなのだ (It is just an analogy.)

“He was born from a beautiful lady.”
「実際には美しい女性から生まれた」 (Actually, he was born from a beautiful woman.)
“But the one who actually bore him was a beautiful woman.”

“That lady was Lucrecia.”
「その女性がルクレツィア」 (That woman was Lucrecia.)
“Her name was Lucrecia.”

“She was an assistant to Professor Gast”
「ジェノバ・プロジェクトチームの (Of the Jenova Project team)
“She served as an assistant to Professor Gast, the lead researcher on the Jenova Project. Lucrecia… How beautiful she was.”
<0xE3><0x80><0x80>責任者ガスト博士の助手。 (Assistant to Dr. Gast, the lead researcher of the Jenova Project.)
<0xE3><0x80><0x80>美しい……ルクレツィア (Beautiful… Lucrecia.)

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{Tifa}
“It speaks directly to my mind…”
「頭に直接語りかけてくる……」 (It speaks directly to my mind…)
“It’s speaking directly to my mind… Is this the Ancients’ consciousness?”

Is this the Consciousness
<0xE3><0x80><0x80>これは、古代種の意識？ (Is this the consciousness of the Ancients?)

of the Ancients?”

“Whoa…!”
「おわっ！」 (Whoa!)
“Whoa!”

“What the hell’s this?”
「なんでぃ、こりゃ？」 (What the hell is this?)
“The hell is this thing?”

“Hey Ancients,”
「古代種さんよぉ」 (Yo, Ancients.)
“I got no clue what you’re tryin’ to tell me.”
<0xE3><0x80><0x80>オレ様には、あんたが何言いたいのか (To me, what you want to say…)
<0xE3><0x80><0x80>さっぱりわかんねえぜ (I have no idea.)

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By Ethan Wright