What's the point with that quite lackluster story in Endwalker?

[aveyond-dreams]

The continued lack of care with which the antagonist factions of this game have been treated recently isn't to this game's benefit, though I imagine that those who are fans of the protagonists may derive some semblance of a power fantasy from being able to smoothly take care of any threat that the questlines of this game throw at them. With it all being so one-sided you cannot blame the people invested in these factions for expressing their desire to see them done better justice than this and potentially leaving should that not come to fruition.

A well-done tragedy, while it would be a terrible waste of the potential Lahabrea's character has, is still better than such a simplistic manner of writing him. If only he were a Scion then we could rely on the same sort of plot armor they have in order to save his life and allow him to live on to fulfill his role as our Lahabrea in ARR rather than passing the torch to Eric, which would bring with it too many inconsistencies that I will not list here.

If Lahabrea must die in 6.2 then I only hope it is by way of a father nobly sacrificing himself by fusing with the core of whatever evil took hold of Pandaemonium, to be striken down so that his son might live. Painting a picture of him as being evil or arrogant for the way in which he chooses to process his grief would be in poor taste after the already controversial handling of Endwalker's "forge ahead" message in the MSQ. Regardless of his fate - he deserves better than being reduced to just those aspects.

I can't say I'm particularly interested in what appears to be a story where we'll end up slaying Lahabrea in 6.2 with him being painted unreasonably as an irredeemable antagonist while the twins got to keep and mend the relationship with their father - as the Scions have not suffered anything in the way of permanent losses or consequences in recent memory. If that guy ended up living and walking free, then why not Lahabrea as well? Why risk damaging the already established lore of the game in order to try and push forward a story that rather than having a compelling plot that considers a more mature perspective on grief, is one that seeks to prioritize heat-of-the-moment emotions while standing on logic that won't withstand the scrutiny of the playerbase?