Quote Originally Posted by MikkoAkure View Post
What cognitive dissonance? I just rewatched that cutscene and the first thing Y'shtola does when the nixies come back is walk up to the afflicted one, bend down, put her hand on it and say "Thank you little one, you did well." Then after the thing with the imps, and some exposition, she bends back down to the afflicted one and her expression softens as she says "Rest now, little ones." as she disperses their aether. That is an objective take on what actually happens in the cutscene. Which cutscene did you watch?

But I guess in order for you to not see a double-standard, she needs to be on her knees weeping, lamenting the loss of her puddle people while lighting candles and saying prayers for their dearly departed aether? Does she need to go into the Void by herself to make sure it's safe, god forbid she hurt a familiar? I'm not sure if you guys really believe what you're saying or if in your minds everything the Scions do is vile yet at the same time if someone questions the morality of the Ancients your response is "no one's perfect".

I also guess by that metric then, Cid is also a horrible, irredeemable human being because we find out in ARR that magitek reapers can think and he uses one up while shooting it at a tower and the Garleans are equally bad because like Y'shtola, they created life and send them into dangerous places.
But we’re not the ones bashing the ancients for it. People are saying the ancients are bad because of their lack of concern over their creations. But we see that they held funeral rites for them. People overlook that and still bash them for it, yet this patch Yshtola does the same exact thing that they do and she gets 0 flak for it. THATS why people are bringing it up. Ever since Ew release people bashed them for their “treatment” towards their creations yet when the protagonists do the same no one says a thing. That’s the double standard people are talking about.