The Bizarre Lack of Development and Pathos Concerning Zenos [6.0 Spoilers]

[Vuro]

Vuro, what an excellent post! Thank you so much for taking the time and putting in the effort to write all of that. Thank you also for your compassion and understanding for Zenos. It's quite rare to see it, especially publicly.

Thank you so much for your kind words! <3 I’d love a link to that discord!

How are we cold to Zenos at the end?

I’m referring to the moments before Zenos calls to us, where we’re 100% ready to follow Meteion out of Absolute Horizon without giving Zenos a second thought.

Basically, what the point I'm trying to make is that Zenos is a character where the pathos comes from us reading him rather than from him directly. For the other characters it is obvious, because they want it to be, but for Zenos they leave us to feel freely about him. Note that he is also the villain who our comrades speak about the least. No one ever really makes an attempt to color or re-color our perception of him.

This is a really rad interpretation, so thank you for putting it into words! Although I’m still frustrated by the lack of more obvious pathos for players who struggle with reading between the lines, I really hope your analysis is closer to what the writers’ actual intent was, since their approach to Zenos would make more sense in that case.

It wasn't a direct reply to your post. I didn't quote you specifically dummy

Dude, you replied to my thread without quoting anyone else, meaning you replied to the thread’s first post - my post. Sorry if you’re only just finding out how forums work.