Quote Originally Posted by YianKutku View Post
Honestly my view is that whether Zodiark is good or evil is, in the end, almost entirely irrelevant. The bit that matters is that his (self-proclaimed) representatives, the Ascians, are definitely evil.

By which I mean how every Ascian we've met has been pointlessly cruel, including to their own. The first time we see any Ascian care about another is in the Eden raids, with Mitron and Loghrif, and at that point it was already twisted into a creepy possessive thing. Even Elidibus was concerned more with his (imperfect) memories of the Convocation, not what the Ascians had actually become.

And when the Unsundered all perished and the Sundered were free to do their own thing, one of them went creepy-possessive, and another went "let's destroy the world".

So if Zodiark wants to be seen as not-evil, he'd need to fire all the Ascians and get better employees.
Except again, it’s perspective. I wouldn’t see them as evil so much as trying to restore their world and loved ones back to how they were. Again, if we want to get technical, the rejoinings would save more lives than just keeping the world sundered. I’m so shocked honestly that people still continue to call them villains or zodiark is evil or they’re evil when the devs themselves said there is no good or there is no evil. Yoshi P specifically wanted this to be a story that isn’t black and white.