Quote Originally Posted by AvenoMatt View Post
I wouldn't say Zenos is stupid. He knows the best way to get our attention is to cause mayhem and bringing about the end of the world is a big way to draw our attention.

If anything Zenos is just insane, psychotic and desperate. He has no issue killing anyone in his way be they family or friend. He doesn't care if the world ends or if he dies so long as he get's to fight us. He is hollow shell of a person who feels nothing but fighting us made him feel something and he is desperate to feel that again.
I get this perspective, and I think this is what they want us to feel about him. I just think they've utterly failed at doing so. We basically just see him sitting on a throne looking bored and doing nothing. As much as they want us to feel him trying to move heaven and earth to have his much desired fated duel, it feels like he's just sitting there while everyone else is actually doing everything. As much as they want us to feel like he cares, desperately to the depth of his very being, to fight the WoL.. they just show him sitting on a throne bored. Even now with Fandaniel, it's Fandaniel that's the one making the moves to bring about The End. Zenos only seemed to care a little when Fandaniel told him that he had placed the WoL in potential harms way.

I don't at all think Zenos is stupid or lacking intelligence, He doesn't need a sob story or some deep background that makes us care about him. He doesn't even need anything more than pure, animal instinct and drive. I just don't feel like he cares anywhere near as much about what he supposedly cares about as he says he does. He could be a complete blank slate of pure threat and danger, and it would be refreshing at this point for him to be just that, but he isn't that.. he's just a dude who sits bored on a throne while everyone else does everything. Ranjit felt like a much more present, single minded threat because he, you know, actually did something and actually talked about what his relatively single minded drive was. Ranjit felt like a threat. Zenos just feels like the inevitable Big Bad because SE says he is.