Which FFXIV antagonist would you like to see in DFFOO?

[Crushnight]

Currently (as far as I'm aware) there is no FFXIV antagonist in the mobile game DFFOO in either Global or Japanese version. Which one from the entire game as they can be living or dead would you like to see added?

This character would have interactions not just with the Scions but also other heroes and villains from the franchise. So stuff like Emet and Kuja both loving theatrics could play off one another, or Zenos and Garland sharing a love of combat, or Gaius and Vayne sharing distain for Gods and love for their respective homelands. Can even have interactions like Emet showing up and the Scions being completely clueless who he is and he being disappointed that they forgot his final words.

Who would you want?(this character would most likely have a moveset and music from their respective expansion accompanying them)

[Edax]

Currently (as far as I'm aware) there is no FFXIV antagonist in the mobile game DFFOO in either Global or Japanese version. Which one from the entire game as they can be living or dead would you like to see added?

This character would have interactions not just with the Scions but also other heroes and villains from the franchise. So stuff like Emet and Kuja both loving theatrics could play off one another, or Zenos and Garland sharing a love of combat, or Gaius and Vayne sharing distain for Gods and love for their respective homelands. Can even have interactions like Emet showing up and the Scions being completely clueless who he is and he being disappointed that they forgot his final words.

Who would you want?(this character would most likely have a moveset and music from their respective expansion accompanying them)

I haven't played DFFOO. Nidhogg would be the most conventional antagonist. He can even reuse assets as he possesses someone.

[WhiteArchmage]

I got pros and cons for pretty much everyone. Heavy spoilers for Opera Omnia all the way to Act 2:

I'd say the likeliest is Gaius, mostly because Emet is a HUGE spoiler (although they did reveal Lyse = Yda in that game, and all but stated Papalymo's death in that same chapter, so don't think they care TOO MUCH about spoilers) and also Gaius was on the cover for ARR. Not sure if it's a pro or con, but since Spiritus summons his warriors with their memories intact (And post Act 2, so does Materia), It'd be a post-character development Gaius who... would actually mesh pretty well with Spiritus' goals, even if he personally is against the idea of "gods" by itself. Sort of like how they introduced General Leo as an agent of Ch-Spiritus tasked with ACTUALLY keeping the world stable. Move-wise I could see Terminus Est being his signature move, with something about Magiteck enhancements for his overall gameplay.

For DFFOO, Zenos would actually be a good villain, as his mentality would be really interesting in the whole "World of Respite-gone wrong" setting, making him the antithesis of the world itself (fitting they put him in the "World of Conflict" of NT, shame about that game...). His gameplay centered around which sword he's using, or each sword move giving him a different buff with his EX(+) giving him all 3. But, just like XIV, he may be boring, as he only cares about "the hunt".

Emet could be really fun to see but I can't picture what his role would be, really not caring about the World of Respite and just going along with the Heroes for the ride until he can go back home, even if he thinks of them (at least the XIV cast) as incomplete insects.

I really don't see the other villains showing up, except perhaps Estinihogg, and really that'd just be Estinien on the Heroes side with a Kain-like "brainwashed/redemption" arc where he "tames" Nidhogg's prescence inside him. MAYBE Ilberd... but he's not as relevant as the others.

[kidalutz]

my favorite villain from XIV Greg!

[Mixt]

He's already in there though

[kidalutz]

and green chicken ekidnu?

[Mixt]

No sign of Enkidu that i can recall, but Greg/Gilgamesh is most definitely in there.

[Theodric]

The Warrior of Light. He's a bigger mass murderer than most of the franchise's 'villains'.

[Jandroid]

Does Ardbert count since he was first introduced as an antagonist?

Square Enix should consider making Ardbert the Final Fantasy XIV crossover representative in other Final Fantasy games since he is both literally and figuratively the closest thing to the main player character of this numbered title. I understand the choice of Y'shtola being the crossover representative since at the time she was the most marketable out of the scions but she's more like a secondary or even tertiary character in some expansions. But now that Ardbert is around, we finally have a character that closely represents the main character of the game and I think he makes the most sense as the FF14 crossover representative going forward.

[KageTokage]

I'd want to see both Emet Selch and Zenos.

III has Xande and Cloud of Darkness and XI has E'aldnarche and Kam'lanaut so there's already precedent for multiple antagonists.