What's the point with that quite lackluster story in Endwalker?

[YukikoKurosawa]

Well the problem IMO with letting Meteion live means she suffered absolutely zero consequences for her actions whatsoever. Having her die could've been a tragic irony, that she only finds meaning in existence right before she her own ends.

But I guess that would've been too depressing for our apocalyptic story so they (arguably) had her spontaneously live in the end. If only that question was answered in one of the live letters. Not that I'm a fan of external media sources giving out narrative/lore explanations that should either just be made clear in the game or left permanently ambiguous to allow some mystery. I'm not sure if the latter was their intention with Meteion's fate or not. But I'm sure they would give some convoluted explanation as to how she actually did in fact live in the end. Something something "the hope you imbued her with magically healed her and she was able to live on" something something.

But yeah I don't like her just getting off completely scott free after causing the most harm of any villain in the entire story, along with how arguably dangerous she still is.

[RyuDragnier]

Well the problem IMO with letting Meteion live means she suffered absolutely zero consequences for her actions whatsoever. Having her die could've been a tragic irony, that she only finds meaning in existence right before she her own ends.

This specific one was the individual with Hermes when we met him, and was the one who bonded with us (as little a bond as it was). From the very beginning she ran when she realized what her sisters were saying, trying her hardest not to let Hermes hear the truth. If you recall at that very scene, the pure despair was trying to overtake her, and the pure emotion given off by it was overwhelming even us. I do not blame that girl for what her sisters did, she was an individual who was overwhelmed by the Hive Mind.

[Teraq]

Well the problem IMO with letting Meteion live means she suffered absolutely zero consequences for her actions whatsoever. Having her die could've been a tragic irony, that she only finds meaning in existence right before she her own ends.

But I guess that would've been too depressing for our apocalyptic story so they (arguably) had her spontaneously live in the end.

(glances at a certain PS1-era series villain)

Meteion living doesn't bother me this much, in the sense that I don't think she was fully responsible for her actions as she is barely even a character to me, honestly, I put the blame on Hermes – I will never not see her as the AI turned racist by 4chan – but as Rulakir pointed out, it's true that a single Meteion per planet was enough to push some of them towards their doom.

Pragmatically she should be put down as a creation too dangerous to let live.

However, in the immortal words of writers who coincidentally butchered a story in its final stretch,



I mean... who else was betting, as they were watching the ending, that the final shot would be of a blue Meteion flying happily? It had to be.