Something in 5.3 MSQ felt off to me (SPOILERS)

[DiaDeem]

Thanks everyone for your kind responses! I'm very glad to see that I'm not the only one who thought the situation was odd.

Personally, while I understand the concept of the sundered soul, the idea of two people sharing a soul after becoming their own person just feels wrong and intrusive to me. I just won't accept it for my WoL. We may be shards of a sundered original soul, but we are now ourselves, and again: I don't even think Ardbert would want such an existence.

That doesn't exclude the two from still being their "own people". That's pretty much the whole basis of the conflict of 5.0; Emet thinks the Sundered trying to claim they are still their own people are nothing but pathetic shadows of their actual "complete" selves that shouldn't even count as people, and we're trying to show him otherwise.

I also very much agree with this!

Maybe Minfilia's not actually dead

There was a very sad yet heartwarming story bit with F'lhaminn at some point within ShB that pretty much bids farewell to our original Minfilia, which I believe did a great job concluding her arc.

On voices, it's a curious thing but I've never enjoyed playing this with the voices switched on. I've tried a few times but it always feels a bit off

That's very interesting! I've always played with voices, so turning them off must be an entirely different experience, specially for something like this topic! I don't think I would have ever imagined Ardbert speaking through my mouth if I didn't openly heard it.

So while Seto "saw" Ardbert in our soul, I think it was a "this all happened in a thought bubble" moment.

I like this interpretation! I can appreciate the Amaro being able to sense and see some particular colors and shapes in someone's soul, which I think works better abstractly and in a way is much more powerful and symbolic than Ardbert literally being there.

I viewed it as seto simply reading a message from the soul of adrbert, nothing more. He wasn't really speaking through your mouth.

I like this interpretation too! I believe it gives better closure to both their stories now that we've concluded the ShB story.

Once again, thanks everyone for reading and taking the time to compose a reply! Safe travels across the realm!

-Viv