Prevent Cloud from killing him, certainly. He's come to that conclusion. But how to proceed other than that? He has no idea. He doesn't know what he can possibly say to Cloud. What he can do, to distinguish himself from Jenova to him. If he should even try to make the distinction to Cloud, or if it would be better for Cloud to just let him...hate Sephiroth simply, without complicating matters. Would understanding the reality of things, the nuance of it, actually do Cloud any good, or will it just hurt him further?
Sephiroth - or Jenova, using him - has taken so much from his victims. The way he understands it, the only possible recompense he can make is to do whatever he can that can make their lives marginally better, even if it can never begin to compete with how much worse he'd made them. But...it's not clear what would serve that purpose here.
He supposes, if nothing else...trying to establish he isn't a threat to Cloud here is a start. And there's no better place or moment to do that than when Cloud slumps to his knees before him, exhausted and helpless.
He takes a careful step back from him. "...I don't wish to fight you, Cloud." His voice is quiet, and completely without the undercurrent of smug mockery Cloud is no doubt accustomed to from Jenova. And, to further emphasize his point, Masamune simply...disappears from Sephiroth's hand, leaving him unarmed.
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Prevent Cloud from killing him, certainly. He's come to that conclusion. But how to proceed other than that? He has no idea. He doesn't know what he can possibly say to Cloud. What he can do, to distinguish himself from Jenova to him. If he should even try to make the distinction to Cloud, or if it would be better for Cloud to just let him...hate Sephiroth simply, without complicating matters. Would understanding the reality of things, the nuance of it, actually do Cloud any good, or will it just hurt him further?
Sephiroth - or Jenova, using him - has taken so much from his victims. The way he understands it, the only possible recompense he can make is to do whatever he can that can make their lives marginally better, even if it can never begin to compete with how much worse he'd made them. But...it's not clear what would serve that purpose here.
He supposes, if nothing else...trying to establish he isn't a threat to Cloud here is a start. And there's no better place or moment to do that than when Cloud slumps to his knees before him, exhausted and helpless.
He takes a careful step back from him. "...I don't wish to fight you, Cloud." His voice is quiet, and completely without the undercurrent of smug mockery Cloud is no doubt accustomed to from Jenova. And, to further emphasize his point, Masamune simply...disappears from Sephiroth's hand, leaving him unarmed.