Quote Originally Posted by Denishia View Post
I agree that Themis/Elidibus felt very awkwardly shoehorned into the present timeline Anabeisos - he worked in the first two tiers as the outside straight man and supportive friend for Erichtonios when the meaty core of this raid's story was the toxic familial history and relationships of the Lahabreas. It's why having the original plot MacGuffin crystal be a memory crystal of both Erichtonios and Lahabrea worked (and an interesting counterbalance to the Heart of Sabik as memory for Athena and Lahabrea). But the 6.3 fanservice fight and placing our conclusion scenes with Elibidus in the current day Source's Aetherial Sea instead of in the past or one the First as to keep the raid in just two locations required some painfully clunky 'Athena did it' handwaves and a memory Elidibus with a characterization that feels muddled.
Isn't that how Themis is? Muddled? Athena gives him muddled memories of anything outside the scope of Pandeamonium. During 5.3 his memories are muddled due to choosing to forget and being a primal that was summoned with as Y'shtola puts it a "cacophony of voices" muddied it further. Even when he's sending us back to Elpis his memories are still muddled. We don't even get an idea of who he is or what he's like until then really as for most of the game he's just there being bland as can be. It's not until we learn that he's a young man who looks up to his older colleagues with admiration with more aimed at Azem. A person who isn't jaded or cynical yet and doesn't seem to get that way until we kill Emet-Selch. Even then I'm not sure if he becomes that way because he's a primal that strives for the salvation of the star and how dare Emet-Selch go and go against the plan. Or if there is some of the old him creeping out. Maybe a mixture of both.