Quote Originally Posted by Lunaxia View Post
You seem to struggle with why he'd feel that way and reach that conclusion, and I'm saying the reasons are right there staring you in the face if you look for them.

If you don't agree with it, sure, that's cool, but it's a little weird to highlight them as being utterly detestable and unrelatable due to the genocide they committed while feeling sympathetic to Hermes of all people.
No. I don't struggle understanding it. But it doesn't make it any less better. For a society as advanced and intelligent as the Ancients were, their decision making pos-Sunder leads it to be really questionable. While proven they are capable of lift empires, for some reason they have never thought that the best way to honor their dead was to move on. To teach and guide these newfound lives, keep the Ancient culture alive through them, establish bridges between reflections for those new lives and grow them with any other purpose beyond provoke global destruction. Instead their approach was global genocide over recreating scenarios almost as bad as the very own which scarred their souls and have every one of those new lives be turned into monsters or be killed until there's nothing left. I genuine can't relate that this drastic decision is the only one this highly capable people found. And given they have no right to do so, only made things worse.

Hermes I related over the precise sentiment I am describing here, his inability of being complacent over the society around him and seeing it as the cruel nature it is. The best hypocritical line in Endwalker was when Emet argue with Hermes about him not having the right of decide who lives and die, when Elpis is a whole place dedicated to that sole purpose. Of course, Hermes actions afterwards and his whole pursuit is not something I can relate upon, but what I like about the character was that he threw on people's faces the entire flaw and hypocrisy over a society many gloss over, because he simply saw those and didn't brushed aside.

So, no. It's not weird. You are the one trying to paint some very bad notion on me just because I dont agree with you. I haven't said the Ancient deserved the Final Days either. And while that was tragic, you won't be seeing me shed tears over what the remaining did after that. It's just inexcusable.