What is Zodiark?

[Februs]

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That's not exactly what I meant lol. When I said that Drk's are "selfish" I was referring to their tanking style specifically. By comparion to War's and Pld's, they have no raid/group utility besides dmg output (which is trumped by War's). They excel at group aggro, but they have no skills that are beneficial to a party. Drks may have selfless intentions, but the source of their power is very personal and comes from within.

I can't agree with you either in regards to the Drk's mentor/student relationship either lol. While it is true that both Fray and Sid had a mentor that they adored, he failed to teach them adequately as Fray died and Sid was a novice at best who failed to understand the nature of the darkness within him.

Further, we learn absolutely nothing from either of them. For one, Fray was not Fray. His body was reanimated by our own powers of darkness. The reason it had any of Fray's characteristics is because we were channeling our darkness through Fray's crystal, but, in truth, we were never truly speaking to Fray. We were speaking to ourselves. This was made completely clear in the final fight where we face off against our Darkside. We were facing ourselves the entire time, and teaching ourselves the way by embracing the history of Drk's that was preserved int he crystal.

When we meet Sid we still are teaching ourselves. Throughout the entirety of the Sid arc, we don't really learn anything that we didn't teach ourselves, and it's made clear that it was not us that was lacking, but Sid. The Moogles don't teach us a lesson. They teach him a lesson. We just witness it. Notice that in every cutscene it is not Us that come to revelations, but Sid. We just simply nod and smile at him as if to say "about time you figured this out, you big idiot." It's made pretty apparent throughout the entire 50-60 grind that we actually had a better grip on our own emotional state and it's relation to the darkness than Sid did.