Tale of Emet [FF14 x Nier Reincarnation event story]

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You're assuming one person needed to be killed at all and they did not. Venat was driven by her beliefs/fears, not objective truth.

Not true in the slightest, however horrifying it might have been it is undeniable that the Sundering was integral to defeating Meteion and alternatives did not exist.

Sorry I recognize this was some few pages ago but what? Emet-selch did not just judge the Sundered based on their nebulous 'aetheric density.' That wasn't anywhere close to the crux of his argument. If you looked at his character, especially at the end of 5.0, and concluded that he was just a fantasy racist, I feel like that's missing the mark by a mile. Emet-selch judged people for their vices; war, hatred and disease, all things that, if not caused by their frailer bodies, were caused by their inclination towards violence. The society he lived through had none of these terrible, terrible things and he was one of the few people to watch this transition firsthand. Endwalker aside, what makes him compelling as an antagonist was that his bias had a genuine point behind it. Of course, deep down he was using it to justify atrocities, and that is what makes him a villain, but trying to spin the idea that the Sundered aren't incredibly different is taking it too far.

He called the people fo the first half-men and tried to convince us to betray as he watched them come together to save the world. In the collab he repeatedly remarks how they viscerally disgust him even as they improve. The idea that the Ancients were without vice is buying into to their worldview and is not objectively shown.