"I dunno what a 'Niff' is," Reno admitted, unsure if it was something other than human or something other than Lucian. "But... I've seen a process similar before. On my world. It was ugly an' disgusting an' inhuman. An' I hated it an' the people who did it."

"But," he continued with emphasis, "the people who came out of it? They were still decent people."

Sure, Genesis went a little loopy but he always was an odd duck. And Angeal had a crisis of faith, but he had honor. And Sephiroth...

"One of 'em saved the world."