Quote Originally Posted by Lersayil View Post
And to clarify, I have no bias against Hydaelyn or her actions. I'm just untrusting and cynical towards everything in general, until factually proven otherwise (at which point I might just become plain bitter, but thats another question).
I know I've been doing a decent amount of Hydelyn defending in this thread but my stance really hasn't changed from when I made the thread Is Hydelyn secretly evil? years ago. What she did to Minfilia has/will never sit right with me, hell it has only been made worse due to ShB and I straight up doubt her whenever she does something but I've been sitting here for ages waiting for the "I knew it" to no avail and I've slowly come to expect that the writers would probably have her be benevolent the entire time.

What would've been good to have seen is an ascian go against the other ascians and was put down as this would show that despite being tempered they act freely but since they haven't whereas with Hydelyn we have had 3 instances of people she blessed go against/harm her,
1.Adjora
2.Ysayle
3.Ardbert and co.
This is currently one of the big difference between Zodiark and Hydelyn as primal entities and really why I hate they are primals too, Zodiark by all accounts shown does strip free will away(One true God anyone ) whereas Hydelyn atm with the information we have does not(Though I theorise Minfilia was tempered when she became the voice of the mother but 0 proof there so theory it remains).