Quote Originally Posted by Rulakir View Post
Hermes failed the trial long before Meteion went rogue by not having any humanity in the first place. Much like Venat, he's another character the narrative seemed to bend over backwards to convince you he was a good person, but his actions don't line up with that being the case.
...what? His entire thing is that he has humanity--albeit differently-centered humanity. It's a huge thing that he's the one guy that goes 'actually, it's kinda messed up that we're free of suffering and death but make creatures that are designed to suffer and die'. Which is an absolutely valid stone to throw at the Ancients; if you invent the concept of an apex predator I think you need to have a serious think about what you're doing with your life.

He's got a naive approach to resolving this question he makes for himself, and doesn't handle the answer he gets well at all (both essentially a consequence of Ancient thinking), but to say he lacks humanity is grossly missing the point.