Originally Posted by fire_of_avalon
(starts posting again on EoFF only because I saw this)
Uh, what are you talking about? Cecil completely regretted stealing the Water Crystal from the Mysidians even before meeting up with Rosa after the raid. He also completely regretted killing the Summoners in Mist Village and even protected Rydia without Rosa telling him to or thinking "Rosa will think I'm a monster if I don't try to atone for this." When Cecil told Kain in Mist that he was going to go against the King's orders, Rosa didn't even occur to him at all until after they planned to gather the might of other countries against Baron, showing that Cecil has really strong morals even without Rosa. All Cecil thought about and talked about after the burning of Mist was all the innocent villagers and summoners dying because of his actions and commands from the king, and Rosa was one of the last things to come to his mind.
Even in the DS version's flashbacks (the script can be found here, search for "Flashback at Baron"), before either Cecil or Kain met Rosa for the first time as kids, it's really evident that Cecil is a much more moral and nicer person than Kain, seeing how Cecil tried to make friends with Kain and Kain just reciprocated by bullying Cecil until Rosa stepped in. Cecil even took the blame for starting the fight in front of Rosa, even though he knew it would probably make Rosa like him less than Kain. Kain even showed jealousy toward Cecil even before meeting Rosa, with the way he said "Don't think you can be friends with me, just because the king treats you like you're special." So it's not like Kain's jealousy problems resulted only because of Rosa.
Cecil is a much kinder and noble person than Kain, so I doubt Cecil would've succumbed to that jealousy to the extended Kain did, if at all.
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