"He cracked last time." Cloud's blunt about it. He can be blunt about it. Cloud cracked as well when he was confronted with Sephiroth's lies about his existence. Cloud hasn't slaughtered an entire town - but he had given the Black Materia, and the destruction of his world, over to the enemy. The difference was that Cloud had someone to pull him back from the edge. He'd had Tifa. He'd had his friends.
Sephiroth had no one.
"He doesn't have friends to support him and hold him together any more this time than he did then." If time was in flux at least. Or else this was a parallel time or universe or something like that. Ami had talked about those in her own world. "He doesn't have anyone to pull him back from the edge and he feels just as isolated and alone as he did before. Who's to say it was the facts and not the betrayal that broke him?"
He's not arguing with Tseng. He's even done some pushing of his own in entirely different areas with the Sephiroth they both seem to hear in their heads. He's pointing out an angle he's noticed to add it to what Tseng already has. What if they can save that Sephiroth? Will it change their world? Their present? Will what they know cease to be? Will Zack and Aerith still be alive?
There's a pause and then, low, Cloud adds what he hasn't mentioned to anyone else. Because this isn't the first time he's thought about trying to change the past. It's selfish but he says it anyway. "If Hojo dies, I never become me."
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Sephiroth had no one.
"He doesn't have friends to support him and hold him together any more this time than he did then." If time was in flux at least. Or else this was a parallel time or universe or something like that. Ami had talked about those in her own world. "He doesn't have anyone to pull him back from the edge and he feels just as isolated and alone as he did before. Who's to say it was the facts and not the betrayal that broke him?"
He's not arguing with Tseng. He's even done some pushing of his own in entirely different areas with the Sephiroth they both seem to hear in their heads. He's pointing out an angle he's noticed to add it to what Tseng already has. What if they can save that Sephiroth? Will it change their world? Their present? Will what they know cease to be? Will Zack and Aerith still be alive?
There's a pause and then, low, Cloud adds what he hasn't mentioned to anyone else. Because this isn't the first time he's thought about trying to change the past. It's selfish but he says it anyway. "If Hojo dies, I never become me."