Quote Originally Posted by SannaR View Post
Fan service is definitely why XVI's Cid is also named Cidolfus and just happens to be the dominant of a thunder God. Well a thunder Ekion. Or why in E10 the background to that fight is X's Thunder planes. And actually that boss design makes a lot more sense. Not sure why it just took me this long. As Ixion is X's thunder Aeion/summon and so of course it got combined with Ramuh. All the while of being apart of a love letter to VIII.
Funnily enough that went over my head as well, the FFX reference is so spot on yet so subtle. But when it comes to fanservice, yeah it is easier to keep it that way or be not too specific about it or they would risk opening all sorts of problems with convoluted things like the multiverse, and it rarely is included in media as it is. If you look at time travel that can be seen more often, and that one already is convoluted as heck so the multiverse doubles down on it even. Which is not to say it is impossible, in a tiny and vague scale they are doing this already with the likes of Fran, but they also dont want to bloat FFXIV with other FF's too much I can imagine, keeping it original.