Just wanted to say that I'm enjoying this and looking forward to reading the future chapters. Rufus/Cloud is a bit of a guilty pleasure ship for me and it's hard to find written well.

I just wrote a big review and it got eaten. But I'll try again..

I really like this. I've been sneakily following it for a while before realising there was an option to review ("a while" being "checking at least twice a day"). The dialogue is very well-handled, the character development is believable.. and best of all, they ARE in character. I'm often wary of post-FF7 fics as they tend to ignore Game!Rufus being quite a cold ******* and completely rewrite him as being an ordinary nice young fellow who spends most of his time having a pint with the Turks and taking Dark Nation for walks. And this doesn't make things too happy and fuzzy. I love it, thank you for writing.

You already said it...dialog wanders...but strangely...it works. Still in love with your sympathy-for-the-devil depiction of Rufus...and now Reeve pulling you right back into reality as to the true nature of the beast.

*Applauds Elena screen time*... AND...off -camera character interaction subtleties are exquisite!

I really am enjoying this. I've come across several fics about the attempted rebuilding following Meteor, but yours is probably the closest to what it would actually be like. I suspect that, in the end, Reeve's WRO will become the governing force, with Shinra providing differing forms of power .

And I enjoy your Rufus. Yes, he's calculating, but he has to be. As you've shown, there are a lot of people who'd like him dead simply because of who he is. But I think what's happen has made him grow up quickly; I think he's sincere when he says he's realized that attempting to rule by fear doesn't work.

And Yay for the Turks, still standing loyaly beside him, despite the fact they probably haven't gotten paid for months. I like that Elena gets a lot of screen time; she's so often shoved into the background, and yet, of all of them, I think she's probably grown up the most. As Cloud noted, she's a far cry from the rookie who blurted out the intel they needed (and was it really an accident?). She's a far cry from the young woman with the crush on Tseng. She realizes the dynamics of how things work now, and her place in it.

I do hope you're planning on continuing. I'd like to see how this plays about. I has the potential to become one of those long, multi-chaptered sagas that I love so much, where you're always looking forward to what will happen next.