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for one we fought him like 3 times in stormblood, fought him again in 4.5 and again in 5.3 he blatantly should’ve died ages ago his father made a much better character and was iced and for no real reason (that I’m actually crossing fingers that he somehow survived and plots revenge) he’s a absolute bore and his motives are lackluster for a Main villain.

We went from Gaius the conquerer ft Lahabrea in ARR, to Ishgarde elite with the archbishop with such tangled beef with the dragons that it’s hard to explain in a summary to the dragons themselves with said beef for man, to a tortured wench and Garleon sympathizers in SB and Zenos boring ass himself, to the main unsundered ascians in SHB to back to Zenos?

It just all feels incredibly regressive yea Danny boi is a villain too but he’s worse Acians have this amazing allure to them and it’s impressive to make that uninteresting as they have but since he’s new and 5.5 still unclear I’ll give him a pass it’s Zenos who just stays far too long in the main villain chair with the blandest motives that don’t even make sense. Ran’jit was more interesting the most interesting thing about him is his Fake Echo that that he used to Body hop and to take control of Shinryu that he artificially gained. I don’t even hate him like Vaulthry it just baffles me with a game filled with interesting characters this is the one they’ll end the Zodiark Arc with?