[ Reno draws in a breath, startled by the question. not because Thancred is off the mark, but because of how accurately he hit it, despite Reno's care to keep himself at a distance from the SOLDIER program.
there's a long pause before he says, ] I was a candidate.
[ he'd gone through the whole battery of tests, beforehand, all the panels to make sure that he wasn't likely to liquefy from the inside out the first time they put the mako solution in his veins. all of the results had indicated that it would have taken.
after another long second: ] The higher-ups thought about giving me the infusions even after I joined the Turks, but they changed their mind once they found out how fast I am. Too expensive to bother if I could hold my own with nothing but a good Haste spell and some thunder materia.
[ probably for the best, too. Reno's not sure what would have become of him after Genesis and Angeal took their leave of the organization and the Company decided they needed to clean up ranks. ]
no subject
there's a long pause before he says, ] I was a candidate.
[ he'd gone through the whole battery of tests, beforehand, all the panels to make sure that he wasn't likely to liquefy from the inside out the first time they put the mako solution in his veins. all of the results had indicated that it would have taken.
after another long second: ] The higher-ups thought about giving me the infusions even after I joined the Turks, but they changed their mind once they found out how fast I am. Too expensive to bother if I could hold my own with nothing but a good Haste spell and some thunder materia.
[ probably for the best, too. Reno's not sure what would have become of him after Genesis and Angeal took their leave of the organization and the Company decided they needed to clean up ranks. ]