Live Letter Thoughts

[Atelier-Bagur]

I do find the genocide aspect of the debate... just... bonkers. I really never expected a situation here where simply liking a character leads to accusations of supporting mass murder. Where people acting the same when Emet-Selch first popped up? You know, founder of the multiple imperial-inclined nations that had genocidal themes and kept trying to ignight his own form of mass murder...

In a way, Hydaelyn and her part in the story felt like an adaption of the question “Why does God allow for suffering?” and I thought they did well showing her actions as a ‘necessary evil’ but thats just me. Would it have been nice for perhaps some of the Scions to perhaps disagree with her? Like Thancred, who lost Minfilia due to her unwavering faith in Hydaleyn? Sure, but who ever said the story was perfect?

But I feel once again this is off-topic... please feel free to ignore/jump on my words as if they are Target dummies and you a Dragoon eadger to test their new oGCDs. Whatever makes people happy. Now back on topic... Umm... I am looking foward to the new Reaper lady we will meet in 6.2! Hope she joins us in Trusts and stuff. Will be nice to have another female NPC who takes to the frontlines now that Lyse and (for now) Alisaie are absent from our crew. The 'female characters should be support' is a JRPG trope we should see less of, but one that FFXIV has mostly avoided thanks to them and others.

To me it almost always feels like people trying to paint things in black and white, because they cant understand grey. Even though they say they love when characters and stories have grey moralities anyway and do a bunch of mental gymnastics over why Venat is the worst piece of scum ever, unlike our lord and saviors Emet-Selch, Lahabrea, Elidibus etc etc etc. I feel like there was at least some optional dialogue with the Scions where they did talk about Hyadaelyn's actions and how they ultimately felt about it but I could be wrong, but I somehow recall reading that.

Anyway back to 6.2 stuff, yeah I'm very excited for mystery reaper lady, and there's a good chance that she winds up being the elusive 1.0 fem-Meteor design people have been wanting finally being a canon character (due to how similar her face and hair looks from the short glimpses we see in the trailer).