LOL, I think making people feel sorry for characters is my super power or something. I'm gonna have to try it with Hojo one of these days. XD;;
And I figure, someone so determined to rule by fear must secretly be afraid of everything. You have to really know fear to understand the power of it. I figure "fear" (and a deep-seated insecurity masked by being overtly egotistical) had to be the one emotion Rufus Shinra knew the best.