Revelations from Patch 4.3

[Fenral]

[On Yotsuyu]
Perhaps. Or perhaps it's just my ego and naivete talking.

This is right after you said you were done, but I felt you'd want me to weigh in, given the circumstances.

I think you're trying really hard to find some sort of positive frame of reference for what happened to Tsuyu. Because you want there to be one. It's why FFXIV leaned so twelvesdamnned hard on the sacrifice angle in past cycles: it's easier to accept tragedy when we can find some reason to believe it was necessary.

But it wasn't necessary. Not in the least. Even with the things we learned by Echoing into Asahi, even with Alphinaud's new role as envoy, the end result is still less than what we would have gotten, which is the actual cessation of hostilities between Doma and Garlemald. Not only was Asahi's agreement never put in writing, the return trip was cut mercilessly short. All that's left is for someone on our side to find out that Alphi never made it to Garlemald and the partying is going to be cut way short.

I think Yotsuyu was just trying to make the best of a series of really bad hands. She didn't get to stay as Tsuyu, but if she had to go back to being Yotsuyu, she could at least kill those assholes who made her that way. She didn't get to reign as Tsukuyomi, but she could at least kill that wretch who used her. It's just what she always did.

But ultimately it's about what you want to believe, and what it takes for you to carry on.