What's the point with that quite lackluster story in Endwalker?

[OhNooo]

I have mixed feelings about 5.3. On the one hand, I like how they essentially mirrored a WoL in him, with how he's willing to endure any pain and suffering, even to the loss of his identity, to bring his duty to completion. I think Elidibus is by far one of the most heroic personas in the story, alongside Hades, in how they would both labour for 12k years, in near complete desolation, playing the role of villain as necessary, to rectify what they saw as a great injustice done to their kind. However, I was somewhat let down by how they concluded his focus on the balance of dark and light and jettisoned him from his more conciliatory Emissary stance, which as you say went to Emet.

Looking back, I was kind of taken aback at how his personality seemed to change in 5.3 because I had always seen Elidibus is calm and collected compared to Lahabrea and the others. Then I figured maybe we would end up needing to work with him to keep balance because of part of Lahabrea’s speech in the Praetorium. But the way they handled him just seemed so wrong to me.

And then after the trial we get Elidibus's soul to pop up and lecture Venat on how she gave up hope on them all and robbed them of a chance to even properly pass Hermes's stupid "test", and... Wait no sorry, that's my unwritten AU fanfic.

If you ever write any fanfics I would low key probably read them lmao drop a link if you ever do xD