"Most things about our backgrounds seem to be identical so far as we've explored them, yes," Sephiroth says, a touch guardedly. He's not certain what Cloud is referring to, or what he's 'figured out', or how accurate what Cloud has figured out might be. "What are you referring to?

"But yes, we know about each other. I'm doing my best to...look out for him. I know what he's endured, what he's been deprived of. I want to offer him things I never had a chance of having - the things I always wished for, and wondered how I might have turned out if I'd had. Likely I would run the risk of spoiling him, if he would accept half of what I try to offer...but ShinRa has instructed him that to need or want any compassion or human contact is a weakness, and he is still in the process of unlearning such things. The indoctrination runs deep."