Quote Originally Posted by YukikoKurosawa View Post
If you wanted an option to tell Venat to piss off, I don't see how you aren't clamoring for the same option towards Emet, especially when he said "Remember that we once lived". My entire point is you cannot be angry with Venat or how the arguable moral dissonance of how the writers handled her than be perfectly fine with Emet and how the writers handled him. Either way it just comes down to "character did a bad". And all I can think is "okay." They're both dead now. You killed both of them. One of them, the one you're angry with, is super dead. What else do you want?
I do actually agree with this; I think Emet too got some of the "EW writing woobification" treatment that kind of sidesteps the atrocities that he committed, even though you know exactly why he's doing it and you can find it sympathetic. I was more than happy in 5.0, where the respect and assurance you give him is to his history and loved ones that he fought to the point of orchestrating rejoinings to bring back. However, even I, a big fan of the Ancient society, found it going a bit far for the WoL to appear like they care that deeply for him as was shown in Elpis. Then again, I find this, in Emet's case to be a lot easier to justify. Firstly, he was one of your closest friends before the Sundering, meaning that part of that attachment can come from lingering remnants of Azem. And secondly, the Emet you encounter and treat as such is the one of the past, who has yet to do anything wrong. When you meet him again in Ultima Thule, he makes no excuses for himself and doesn't back down on why he fought you in the first place. No such distance is given to the present Venat of Hydaelyn, when you once again encounter her.

In a perfect world, I think the player should be able to distance themselves from both characters, as both are very morally dubious; but the fact of the matter is that one of them we fought as an actual antagonist final boss of an expansion, and the other is being regarded as a hero, with no opportunity to denounce or combat her ideals in the way Emet's were. I agree with the heart of what you're trying to say, but trying to argue that there isn't an incredible bias towards Venat in the writing is simply madness.