Dear SquareEnix/Natsuko Ishikawa - About Zenos in Endwalker *MAJOR MSQ SPOILERS*!

[nighttimebunny]

I mean, maybe, but ultimately I think it was just fan service; same reason we did Emet and Hytho’s Excellent Adventure. There are better ways to have done the story, but they wanted us to have our moment with fan favorites…and tie it all up as many loose ends as possible shark jumping or not.

The bigger question would be, if they bring him back what will be the point? And will that story be better than any countless others they could tell? Will it attract more players than deter? Zenos is utterly irredeemable at this point- his actions are entirely unforgivable.

They basically have a blank slate to do whatever they want to at this point, why would that be the story worth being told?

Those are the questions that they (the devs) would have to answer to keep me onboard.

Just wondering-why are Emet and Meteion redeemable and forgivable, but not Zenos? Most of those Zenos has killed are the Garleans/Imperials who are our enemies anyway. He's messed with us and the Scions but never killed us. He didn't even want to be the prince/legatus, he was just forced to by his crappy father, who abused him as a child.

Meanwhile Emet literally turned a baby into a monster (he may have done something similar to Zenos), caused calamities aka widescale genocide, wanted to turn us into a monster and watch us kill our friends. But we forgave him, because he had a good reason.

With Meteion, it wasn't her fault, but she still literally killed entire stars and we forgave her. Graha Tia also says we must have sympathy for the Omnicrons, the murder robots. It's just weird to me, we redeem all these people/things who have done horrible things, but Zenos who has just killed his own people/our enemies is forever irredeemable, why?

I do agree that they need to make his story good. I trust them.

Also, it was absolutely not fan service. In the recent radio show, Yoshi P says that Emet's popularity had nothing to do with him playing a role in EW, so I doubt Zenos's role was for fan service, especially since he's less popular. They've stated a few times now that they do not take character popularity into account when writing the story.