Quote Originally Posted by StriderShinryu View Post
Perhaps you shouldn't use Zenos' words to classify anyone's motivations given that Zenos himself and his rage boner for the WoL is pretty much the dictionary definition of petty.

But what is "petty" for one person may be emotionally crippling and crippling for another. While Emet and Elidibus are absorbed in revenge for or reclamation of their world's being destroyed so is Yotsuyu, it's just that Yotsuyu's world is an internal one. Did the story as written and told properly bring that forward? No, but that doesn't make her an inherently bad character, it just makes her a badly written one (or, more precisely, a hastily written one that lost nuance because they needed to Supervillain her in the case of expediency).
I wish we could see how our current writer would've written Yostuyu.

I heavily, heavily empathize with her and her backstory, like I said earlier I went through very similar experiences as Yotsuyu as a child. I wonder if, given a similar writeup as Elidibus (whom we only saw for brief moments in ARR and then ShB for what... a total of 4 hours of playtime? and yet he's become a favored villain) and Emet-Selch, she'd be a lot more palatable to the main audience. For those who can already empathize with her, it's easy for us to see her and go "This is a solid, sympathetic villain. She did understandable things given the circumstances of her upbringing and while they were horrible things, it is easy to see where things would lead." But for those left out of that, it just seems contrived and I wonder if given different writing it wouldn't seem as contrived.

Though I will say her story was rushed as heck. I wish there'd been some more time to flesh her out beyond what they did.