Quote Originally Posted by Lady_Silvermoon View Post
FF14 used to be the game I played to relax. Then it suddenly decided my character's existence would be built on a billion human sacrifices and I'd just need to be okay with that. And I simply don't know how to be. I wish there was some explanation that meant I was misunderstanding the narrative and nothing I believe happened actually happened, but no, that does not seem to be the case. The case seems to be I just need to be cool with my existence being built on mass genocide.
The solution is that obviously the writers didn't intend for there to be a genocide. Yes, Venat consciously decided that it was the best course of action without alternative, but that is because the writers wanted you to travel back in time, meet her, don't create an alternate timeline like G'raha, retain a conscious bond with Venat and have everything happen exactly the way it did. They wrote backwards from the conclusion. They put this story together in a minute and didn't think about the implications. That is the explanation. For god's sake there is a literal mind-wipe device machina'd into the plot just to somehow make the timeloop possible. This is clearly a rushed and carelessly put together mess of a storyline. Don't take it any more seriously than the writers did.