User blog comment:D2r/Was Veil ultimately Redeemed?/@comment-3474228-20111225183255/@comment-1399757-20111231155012

One point of view I might bring up is whether or not you yourself would feel as if you could redeem yourself through such actions in such circumstances. Say you've led an entire life of evil-doing, but now your adopted mother is in danger. You move in front of her to save her, knowing that you'll take the hit and die. That in itself is unquestionably a good and selfless act. His redemption, however, would lie on whether or not he experienced an epiphany before or during his act - ie. whether or not he saw and relinquished all the wrong he had done in life.

I remain optimistic and suppose that he may have had said epiphany. After all, it was he that had brought her into danger in the first place. I would be sorry for putting others in danger, which would probably lead to my being sorry for any other wrong actions along the way, even if I thought they were justified at the time. This thought process was perfectly capable of being had, even though the scene happened very quickly.