[So that cinches it. They're getting the hell out of this elevator as fast as is humanly possible, because clearly the last thing Reno wants to be thinking about is Sector fucking Seven, and Rufus frankly isn't far behind him. It's less the magnitude of the atrocity itself and more all the things that run tangent to it, all of the strings that lead their way back to his father, weighted down with flashes of resentment in flavors of my Turks and my city and if he'd just been faster to wrest it all away from the old man then maybe —
Well, that's a sin in itself that he really doesn't feel like confessing, isn't it? That there's a lot of resentment to cut through before he even gets close to the part about the actual human people who died beneath the crush of the fall.]
Worse than following orders. Conspiracy necessitates initiative.
[Reno didn't destroy Sector Seven. The Turks didn't destroy Sector Seven. The Shinra Corporation destroyed Sector Seven, and only one of them in this elevator is the Shinra Corporation.
Whatever else comes of it, whatever new beginning lies on the horizon, the old sins hang around his neck. No one else's.]
So we're agreed, then. There's no further need for any confessions; we can move right to the punishment. [He pauses.] My punishment.
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Well, that's a sin in itself that he really doesn't feel like confessing, isn't it? That there's a lot of resentment to cut through before he even gets close to the part about the actual human people who died beneath the crush of the fall.]
Worse than following orders. Conspiracy necessitates initiative.
[Reno didn't destroy Sector Seven. The Turks didn't destroy Sector Seven. The Shinra Corporation destroyed Sector Seven, and only one of them in this elevator is the Shinra Corporation.
Whatever else comes of it, whatever new beginning lies on the horizon, the old sins hang around his neck. No one else's.]
So we're agreed, then. There's no further need for any confessions; we can move right to the punishment. [He pauses.] My punishment.