I'm pretty sure the redress mechanic is supposed to be a symbolism between Shiva's weapon swapping mechanic back in ARR and the idea of light + purity type deal... She is indeed a child and it always weirds me out when someone brings that up but at the same time JP developers make children look like they're adults and vice versa too often so.... Doesn't surprise me people still do this. Same on the matter of lalafells these days... it's cute to see storylines in the game of romances and junk but when you talk about attraction to these things..... why?

All of that is off topic anyways... Really I think they could've done a LOT more creative concepts with E8s and everything else this tier tbh. That was why I liked E3 and E4 so much. Leviathan having 2 heads was neat, I can see how we thought of it too... Titan having a car.... I'm still on the fence about how we thought of that but it ended up being fun/unique/creative.