Quote Originally Posted by Veloran View Post
Counterpoint: Hydaelyn is basically a giant katana, so obviously Zenos will mantle her instead.

But seriously Fandaniel asks if Zenos is ready to control "You know what", Hydaelyn is half-dead, and Zodiark is still dead-dead. It's not either of them.
I tend to agree, there's a step here they know that we don't and I feel another Fandaniel's keeping to himself. They did say this'll be a far more straight forward epic fantasy adventure than politics of Stormblood or lore digging and villain understanding of Shadowbrinders, of course they'll be stuff but I don't think it's going to come from where some people think, it's not going to be about Hydaelyn not being "as good as you think/secretly evil" or us having to "protect Zodiark or bring balance" I think the sound got Fandaniel and it's going to come down to him making his true move and then us having to do what the Ancients should have done. They had a good plan, on his own Zodiark was an alright solution at least in the short term, they could have tried to figure out what the sound was, come up with something permeant, but instead they shifted all their focus to trying to have their cake and eat it by getting back all they'd lost, fighting themselves and well, we know how that turned out.
Though given the time constraints with the plot, I wouldn't be surprised if the sound ends up dooming itself, possessing Zodiark or Hydaelyn or both merging them into a new being finally giving itself a physical form, though in doing so gives us the ability to kill it.