Quote Originally Posted by Shougun View Post
I don't think it's silly at all if you see as yin and yang, which there is a lot of imagery for it as well as a sort of philosophical standing Yoshida has said he personally holds. To be clear I don't think I've ever heard him say explicit yin yang stuff, but the general concept of balance fits well within that and the imagery is starting to look like that.

If Hydaelyn is mother then Zodiark may as well be father. The imagery on a concept art holds decently well to this. The actions of each 'primal' have also loosely been in the line of chaos (freedom, don't read chaos as evil or whatever lol- in this situation it's not) and order, both of which have consequences at their extremes (and each person may have a bias to which extreme they'd like to be, but I think most would ask for balance of both). This is then where I note on multiple occasions Yoshida has mentioned the importance of balance, things going too far, extremes, and the differences between history written by the victors vs those who did not win.

In such a way neither are really evil as much as they're ideas- which is what primals have always been anyways. So if we do use or get help from Zodiark it's not because suddenly Hydaelyn is evil (especially if Zenos has decided to slurp her up), it also doesn't suddenly make everything Zodiark has represented and done as purely good (by receiving his help you're not like "why yes I too also think we should restore ascian power and down with the low blood races"). There is a lot of stuff they could do for the end thoughts but if they're actually closing the whole chapter I imagine Zodiark and Hydaelyn are going to become one (and or perhaps begin to decay together returning their energy to the life stream).
So, first things first, I don't know how the ending will turn out, which excites me even more.

That said, what I have a problem with is people wanting Zenos to go after Hydaelyn and forcing us to go after Zodiark. That, to me, doesn't make any sense if Zenos knows of our association with Hydaelyn. He wants to fight against us, not take over our source of power (at least one of).

Also, while I'm aware of the idea of balance, Hydaelyn was summoned to keep Zodiark in check. Which means, unless they merge or are both destroyed, balance in this case means Hydaelyn being strong enough to do exactly what she was summoned to do, especially since Zodiark being stronger potentially means the deaths of existing lives. So if balance is the ideal, and Zenos as the antagonist wants to destroy that balance, then he would go after Zodiark to stand against the combined force of Hydaelyn-WoL.