Minfillia Speculation

[Cilia]

[Minfilia] is taking one for the team.

Put in a less romantic context, if Minfilia isn't even in there anymore it's tantamount to suicide. We will never get her back. Even if Minfilia is a nigh-helpless piece of exposition spouting eye candy, she's one of ours, dammit! Hydaelyn can't give us free will and then ask us to relinquish it for the "greater good" when she feels it's necessary, turning one of our closest friends into her personal meat puppet! (Again, this is why I hate dealing with deities.)

I doubt it's that drastic. Minfilia is probably still in there, but it still leaves a bad taste in my mouth - the whole "relinquishing your free will because I asked you to" and the fact Minfilia may be conscious but unable to express herself. Put that way, it's arguably worse.

... when you take away the romantic notions of self-sacrifice... it really gets less than glorious.

As for Hydaelyn using Minfilia as a meat puppet vessel to keep herself alive? Well, I'm not sure anything we do is going to change what happens. It seems to me that Hydaelyn is trying to fight entropy itself, something that cannot be overcome by the laws of reality. That's no reason to give up, mind, but that still doesn't change the futility of it.

Apropos of nothing, Sephirot confirmed to not be MSQ material? Sort of? In today's preview.