Quote Originally Posted by SannaR View Post
Why are we still trying to make more glue? This section is starting to sound like the general section. You know where everyone has to write out every little nuance just so we can try and avoid any "um well you didn't mention this exact tiny sand gain of information or idea. So how could I extrapolate what exactly it is you meant?" bullocks. I don't think many if not most of those who love Venat think her going along with Herme's stupid assed test parameters was the brightest of ideas. Or that those who are feeling that those of us who still like her aren't capable of separating our like of her from any dislike of her actions. I mean I love Emet-Selch but I am fully capable of looking at his actions and going "Wow, dude. Just no man." while still loving how complex of a character he is and how at least the English and Japanese VAs 100% nailed it.

The Thing is we don't have enough information to know what exactly would happen if at any time Venat went and thought "Screw this! So what if I somehow create a paradox." and told people even after Zodiark was summoned. We also don't know if at any point in time if she weighed all of her available options or after her initial weighing of options back on Elpis she chose to stick to her guns. And seeing just how one what if scenario ended up being a monkey's paw type deal with how the AU timeline of DRU/DSU plays out I don't have much confidence that the devs wouldn't take a similar route. We barely know how most of the convocation thinks let alone what type of person they were/are. We don't even get a sentence out of many of the others who were "killed" off screen. All we know really about Nabrialis and Iygthorm is they were team Zodiark and agreed with Lahabreha's idea of we needed to attempt another rejoining two weeks ago. Especially since we can all assume part of the reason why Iygthorm is like that is to make up for being the one who got the blame for creating the void.
As far as other members of the convocation go, we have at least seen their memory crystals, of which a lot of them saying things like “We must not give in to despair,” and “this is right.” As far as an AU thing goes, i think the reason many call out the writers for not giving one to the ancients is they were absolutely fine with giving on to ironworks. Ironworks was willing to sacrifice their entire timeline to bring back the WoL, a plan they didn’t even know would work yet that’s okay. But somehow an alternate timeline for the ancients just wouldn’t work because horrible excuse X Y Z.