Quote Originally Posted by Brinne View Post
What does this even mean...?

"I automatically know what this story is doing with a concept because I've seen how completely different stories do it" is kind of a weird way to engage with a text.

w-what does this even mean. what does it even meannnnnn
Did you not notice how hermes and eric were suffering? People like them existed back then but their suffering was ignored. No one tried to understand them.

To me it sounds like you argue under the idea that a perfect utopia is infact possible. I disagree and (caution: very judgemental statement following) and think you need to stop huffing lethal amounts of copium. The trope of the seemingly perfect but actually rotten utopia is a common one because fiction is generally written by humans. Many people in our world have declared themselves or their way of live perfect. Fiction authors want to convince you how foolish that is. However, while perfection is unattainable, improvement is attainable.

What it means is that instead of settling for nothing less than perfection (and growing more and more desperate in the search of it) you should strive for improvement. That striving is what is being celebrated in the game. This cannot make sense if you cling to the idea that a perfect utopia can exist (or worse if you think it already exists).


On the topic of 'was venat justified?':
I think we need to ask a different question first: Was she looking for justification? What kind of justification?
In the cutscene after her trial I think she said something like "there was no kindness in the destruction I wrought". I dont think she was looking for moral justification, ever. It was always my interpretation that she was acting out of desperation and this is supported imo by the completely doomed backup plan of using the moon as an escape vessel. Faced with the choice of letting the ancients work themselves to their unavoidable doom or shattering the world and having the remnants be inhabitated by living feeling beings that have a better chance of defeating the catastrophe unleashed on the universe, she made her choice.

I found the omega beyond the rift quest very interesting in that regard. It poses not only the question of 'do you think what she did was justified?' but also includes hermes into that. He was desperately looking for justification for his actions. A search that not only doomed the world on accident but a doom he, given knowledge of the consequences of his action, also embraced in his authority as judge over the rights to existence of living beings on etherys.