Zenos is... [big fat spoily]

[nighttimebunny]

there's no way he's dead. he's came back from the dead before and we all know the devs don't really like killing off characters. i'd maybe believe it if he poofed into aether, but even then we'd probably see his soul again like we did with Emet lol. there's like 3-4 ways/theories of how he can come back. we literally see the man leave his own body, on his own accord, Ascian-style early in EW. not to mention there's multiple plotholes involving him as well as cryptic hints the devs keep dropping.(i won't go into detail here) the last fight/dialogue doesn't even appear to be a fight with a villain, and the devs confirmed he wasn't the final boss at all. rival/antihero arc inc (it's already started lol) it honestly reminded me of a pokemon rival fight.

i won't even get into the voidsent thing here. it's a lot.

oh and they're obsessed with marketing him, look at Cafe Eorzea. in the recent interview they said they don't give merch of characters until they're gone for good (we're getting Emet merch soon) absolutely nothing about Zenos.

the devs also have stated they don't care about a character's popularity when keeping them alive/dead, so the crowd of people who hate him don't really matter.