(ShB/EW SPOILERS) Why do people like Emet-Selch?

[Atelier-Bagur]

I think my biggest pet peeve is how he both acknowledges but strongly denies our existence. To him the unsundered arent valued as life, even though he boasts about "breaking bread" and "suffering" alongside us. My whole argument against him was theres nothing wrong with us fighting for our own existence, fighting for the fact that we still live.

Hes still a fun villain and character for sure but find it odd that people give him such a hard pass on his angle.

[Brinne]

Hes still a fun villain and character for sure but find it odd that people give him such a hard pass on his angle.

It's because, stripping away the lies he tells himself because he hates what he feels he has to do, his angle and our angle are fundamentally the same, but tragically incompatible with each other. It's why in-universe the WoL basically canonically gives him a "hard pass" to the point Endwalker can't stop playing up how attached they are to him and how sad they are about his fate to the point of needing to be comforted by Emet himself.