In many ways, the things I want haven't changed. I still want to be the fulcrum to your lever and the weapon you wield against the world. I still want you to have everything you want, and I want to be a part of achieving that for you. I just think... Increasingly, I care less about what the Shinra Electric Power Company needs and more about what you need. I want to be your fulcrum. I want to be your weapon. For you, not because I'm a Turk in the Company's employ but because I'm yours.
[He's just going to sit here quietly with that "I like that" for a minute. That's nostalgic, too. The small, but deeply significant confirmations.]
I think I understand that better than you might realize. I've increasingly found myself...not thinking that I and the company are any less synonymous, but that I'm...
There is no Shinra Electric Power Company without me. Indisputably, I am the company. But I also think there is me without it. I think I myself am not certain how vast the part of me that isn't the company "is", but you're the one who makes it possible to even try to survey those bounds.
My fulcrum, my weapon...add "my theodolite" to that list.
I remember many months ago you were musing on whether you had killed what you could be in the service of what you are.
I don't think you have. I think the part of you that isn't the Company is vaster than either of us know. I'm looking forward to exploring that with you. And if what you want is to continue the work the Company is doing, I will join you, but if you decide that your future holds something different entirely then know that I will be at your side as that future comes.
At the risk of getting too deep into business on what's meant to be a festive occasion — when you and I leave the Company together, the world will be better than it was when I took it from my father. That's what I want. To leave it better than I found it.
[Of course, "better" is a relative term, and when the eye of the beholder is Rufus Shinra's...well. "Better" is a relative term, and he is the epicenter it revolves around.]
Before I forget — I'd meant to invite you to my suite. Darkstar has a gift for you, and so do I.
And...well. I can't say who it's a gift for anymore, strictly speaking, but
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In many ways, the things I want haven't changed. I still want to be the fulcrum to your lever and the weapon you wield against the world. I still want you to have everything you want, and I want to be a part of achieving that for you. I just think... Increasingly, I care less about what the Shinra Electric Power Company needs and more about what you need. I want to be your fulcrum. I want to be your weapon. For you, not because I'm a Turk in the Company's employ but because I'm yours.
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I think I understand that better than you might realize. I've increasingly found myself...not thinking that I and the company are any less synonymous, but that I'm...
There is no Shinra Electric Power Company without me. Indisputably, I am the company. But I also think there is me without it. I think I myself am not certain how vast the part of me that isn't the company "is", but you're the one who makes it possible to even try to survey those bounds.
My fulcrum, my weapon...add "my theodolite" to that list.
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[ in a place of pride, right at the top. ]
I remember many months ago you were musing on whether you had killed what you could be in the service of what you are.
I don't think you have. I think the part of you that isn't the Company is vaster than either of us know. I'm looking forward to exploring that with you. And if what you want is to continue the work the Company is doing, I will join you, but if you decide that your future holds something different entirely then know that I will be at your side as that future comes.
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[Of course, "better" is a relative term, and when the eye of the beholder is Rufus Shinra's...well. "Better" is a relative term, and he is the epicenter it revolves around.]
Before I forget — I'd meant to invite you to my suite. Darkstar has a gift for you, and so do I.
And...well. I can't say who it's a gift for anymore, strictly speaking, but
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