"Hn. Zack's good. And Zack's SOLDIER." Cloud circles the argument back around on itself. "So SOLDIER can't all be monsters or only too dangerous to live. Angeal was wrong. And he was wrong to leave when people still needed him."
Pot, kettle, of course. Cloud had tried to do the same thing recently. Luckily he'd had people to pull him back before it went too far. He couldn't claim he'd been stronger. Just luckier. With an exhale, he rested his arms across Fenrir's hood and looked forward.
"One of my best friends should be a monster. But he's not. He's not because he refuses to let what Hojo did to him take his humanity away from him." And because he was busy sleeping off sins and hanging around in crystal caves but that wasn't really the lesson he was trying to impart at the moment. Rubbing the back of his head, Cloud let his hand drop and looked back at the child behind him.
"I'm one of Hojo's experiments too. He called me a disappointment and a failure." Blue mako eyes were finally, finally, free of doubt. "And I am. He failed what he was trying to turn me into." It's the child and not the man, he reaches out and gently touches on the chest. "So maybe all his experiments are failures - to him. And maybe that's not such a bad thing to be."
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Pot, kettle, of course. Cloud had tried to do the same thing recently. Luckily he'd had people to pull him back before it went too far. He couldn't claim he'd been stronger. Just luckier. With an exhale, he rested his arms across Fenrir's hood and looked forward.
"One of my best friends should be a monster. But he's not. He's not because he refuses to let what Hojo did to him take his humanity away from him." And because he was busy sleeping off sins and hanging around in crystal caves but that wasn't really the lesson he was trying to impart at the moment. Rubbing the back of his head, Cloud let his hand drop and looked back at the child behind him.
"I'm one of Hojo's experiments too. He called me a disappointment and a failure." Blue mako eyes were finally, finally, free of doubt. "And I am. He failed what he was trying to turn me into." It's the child and not the man, he reaches out and gently touches on the chest. "So maybe all his experiments are failures - to him. And maybe that's not such a bad thing to be."