Final Fantasy XIV Hot Takes

[Denji]

ShB and the 8UC timeline says hi.

That aside, maybe I should clarify that I actually don't have problem with the sundering itself. I mean it's still a messed up thing to do, but ultimately a necessary evil. My problem is with the writing; more specifically, about the believability and them trying so hard to justify venat and made her the "benelovent God". It's just unbelievable that out of everyone, only Hermes is the dynamis specialist. It's unbelievable that noone question him making meteia and release it to the space without even submitting it first to the Bureau.

There are still lots of things I can complain about, but this isn't the place, so that two points above are just the examples.

except that those things may have needed to happen, had already happened, or were always going to happen.

all we know from that timeline is that in some places we're told it persisted and midgardsomr is there chilling with the people who didn't die while crystal tower catboi contradicts that in EW and says the timeline was "unmade". the only real concrete evidence we got of what happened beyond that is urianger tripping on interdimensional shrooms and seeing a vision of the WoL dead.

if history has already recorded that you had gone into the past and altered it, then are you actually altering history by then going into the past and doing what history has already recorded?

if you go into the past thinking "i will fix this thing" and you fix it, then will your past-future self won't be aware that it's a problem that they would need to go into the past and fix? or does you fixing it also undoing you going out -to- fix it, thus negating your attempted change to the timeline?

the difference between you going into the source's past and crystal tower catboi going back in time to the first is that even if he alters the first's history he is still isolated from the effects this would have on the source. he is already displaced and meets his end there, there is no future for that version of him on the source. he's even uncomfortable about this and brings it up a few times where he's like "bro i don't even know if i'm me or if i'm remembering a statue's memories at this point".