Benedikta is dead. Cid is dead. Hugo Kupka is dead. The game has been burning through its cast with a consistency that feels less like storytelling cruelty and more like an argument: the world built on Eikon power consumes everyone inside it, regardless of which side they stand on.

The revenge Clive carries in this session is not simple. He is not pursuing Ultima because of what was done to him personally, though that is part of it. He is pursuing it because he has finally understood what the Blight is, what the Mothercrystals are for, and what will happen if no one stops the cycle. Revenge, here, is indistinguishable from responsibility.