On Themis [6.4 SPOILER]

[TowaIsBestGirl]

(Also, I think it's a little funny that even the Absolute Worst and Most Evil Ancient wouldn't have become a serious threat on a wide scale if not for the intervention of an Alien Space Rock, but you know, the society and its people are just fundamentally rotten and had to be put down, everything was for the best, etc, etc. Endwalker!)

See, that's what they should have done isn't it? Made it so that Athena covertly seized control of the Convocation and infected the Ancient governance with her mad ideals. I full believe she could do it, too. And it would have worked wonders as to give us a legitimate, believable reason as to how and why we should condemn an entire people for the potential sins of the few. Not that such a thing would have fooled all parties, mind.

It's kind of weird, isn't it, how they go out of their way to justify Venat's actions with these laboured, long-winded metaphors on perfection-induced existential apathy and societal stagnation when a much more solid basis for her argument was right there.

I've come to see the writing of Pandaemonium as very, ah, disjointed? I suppose the terminology I would use would be that. I don't see much evidence that they'd given too much thought as to how the parallels between Athena and Venat truly made the Mothercrystal look. But it is what it is, I suppose.