Quote Originally Posted by Turtledeluxe View Post
This doesn't really make sense. If your entire argument hinges on optional content, there is no "our hypocrisy". It's just yours. So a topic title adjustment seems appropriate here.

Secondly, there is hypocrisy in the raid story but it's moreso surrounding the apparent disgust at taking the WoL's soul. Isn't that kinda what their whole society is predicated around? Not just people who die of natural causes, but people who are killed by their army. This is kind of like feeling better about eating cow meat because didn't personally kill it. But that's not what Black Cat says, she's just weirdly being hypocritical.

Not that it matters because the raid itself is optional content. So ultimately I'm not sure what the purpose of the topic is. "You might be a hypocrite"??

But that's to be expected when your agenda is absolving everyone in the story except the protagonists.

I also don't have a strong recollection of relic quests but hunting beasts or otherwise antagonistic forces is false equivalency to something like plundering entire worlds of innocent people.
I don't agree with TC. But all quests in the game are 'canon' even if optional content. The WoL in the abstract 100% does all the raid storylines optional or not, and they're looking at the consistency of that character as presented in the full experience of the game.

I think some of this is intended though. Considering how against using souls the WOL is yet it being brought up in the raid storyline, this is likely being set up to explore things further in the story. Though we won't know for sure until it continues in later patches. But considering our explicit goal is to free all the souls held by the Arcadion organization it doesn't seem like a stretch to me to think regulator use is going to be brought up too, especially with the miqo kid asking us to wear one etc.