Originally Posted by
nighttimebunny
Just wondering-why are Emet and Meteion redeemable and forgivable, but not Zenos? Most of those Zenos has killed are the Garleans/Imperials who are our enemies anyway. He's messed with us and the Scions but never killed us. He didn't even want to be the prince/legatus, he was just forced to by his crappy father, who abused him as a child.
Meanwhile Emet literally turned a baby into a monster (he may have done something similar to Zenos), caused calamities aka widescale genocide, wanted to turn us into a monster and watch us kill our friends. But we forgave him, because he had a good reason.
With Meteion, it wasn't her fault, but she still literally killed entire stars and we forgave her. Graha Tia also says we must have sympathy for the Omnicrons, the murder robots. It's just weird to me, we redeem all these people/things who have done horrible things, but Zenos who has just killed his own people/our enemies is forever irredeemable, why?
I do agree that they need to make his story good. I trust them.
Also, it was absolutely not fan service. In the recent radio show, Yoshi P says that Emet's popularity had nothing to do with him playing a role in EW, so I doubt Zenos's role was for fan service, especially since he's less popular. They've stated a few times now that they do not take character popularity into account when writing the story.