As I stated much earlier in this thread, I enjoyed Solus' return to the stage. Flippant villains are my favorite - from BlazBlue's Yuuki Terumi to Fire Emblem Heroes' Loki.

And I am fine with them being outright villains. Not everything needs to be ~morally grey~ or ~nuanced~. He's not a Saturday Morning Cartoon villain, either. Those tend to take themselves seriously; Solus is clearly just playing around through most of his monologue at Varis, even if he speaks truth.

Physically, he's... not what I expected... but the only image we had of Solus beforehand was an old man wearing Golbez-esque pauldrons, so a youthful man with purple and white hair was a surprise.