At no point have I ever suggested that everyone who defends Venat does so because of the 'mommy goddess' aspect of her character. However it's hardly uncommon and I suspect I'm not the only one to notice patterns of behaviour emerging where certain posters are concerned.

Just the other day a poster cracked an innocent joke in the form of a meme and was attacked and painted as one of the 'worst posters on the lore forum'. I think that it's incredibly disingenuous behaviour - especially in a lore community actively known for sending people death threats for liking or disliking the antagonists.

Honestly, though? It's the hypocrisy more than anything that keeps me coming back to this thread. For years it was insisted by some that there was never an excuse for genocide, that no matter how sympathetic a character's reasons or circumstances happened to be then it was too high a cost and could never be justified.

As of Endwalker? The goalposts moved for many of those self-same individuals. Suddenly genocide was perfectly acceptable...but only within the context of Venat's actions and reasoning.

Of course, to many of us even a surface level examination reveals where her methods and reasoning is flawed. Not everyone will agree and that's fine - but at some point I do wonder why the genuine offer of agreeing to disagree isn't being taken up or why someone linking a Reddit post is being falsely painted as a form of 'brigading'.

Pretty much every social media site of note has a form of cross-posting capability implemented into its setup - and that's very much what linking the thread here happened to be. It wasn't an attempt to tell people to go and harass others and I'd most certainly be curious to learn who, exactly, is being accused of 'brigading'.