FFXIV - Buried Memory (Poster)

[Puksi]

Funny, we too wish they'd move on to better plot points. Unfortunately, we're very much stuck with the Scions for 10 more years. Wonder if it'll take all 10 years for them to show some more meaningful character development.

Btw, let us not forget it was the Sundered and their benefactors who "Beat the Ancients into the aether". Wonder how much complaint you'd show if say..... the next Vauthry was the one with some lame-o-zoid fanfiction sob story. But then, surely the devs and GCBTW would never do THAT, right? :3

Aw, I missed this. Must've been the edit.

But we've already had multiple children corrupted by creepy adults, Vauthry was never unique in that. It's like one of Square's favorite tropes. Kefka, pumped so full of magitek as an orphan boy it drove him insane, on Gestahl's orders. Sephiroth, experimented on by Hojo in utero with Jenova cells. Kuja, created with a killswitch by Garland. Seymour, banished with his mother by his creepy father because he'd lose cred with the other Guado. That whole VIII thing, whatever the heck that was. The "megalomaniacal madman's" skeevy penchant for using women to create pawns in his game is just the latest in the line. Zenos may have been another casualty of that one.

I'd almost say you don't seem to recognize the difference between an infant who had no choice in being Tempered before birth, and a skeevy adult man who did so many "bad things", as Yoshida put it, fully cognizant. Surely it can't be that, it's so obvious. But I've read this post several times, and I'm still not sure what you're trying to imply.