Quote Originally Posted by Lady_Silvermoon View Post
Gleaners are scholars. He says so when he's talking to the forum member EW. Okay, fine, a scientist made an oopsie daisy in regards to the location of his dead mother cause he's sad. Fine. Like this is encyclopedia level knowledge in his world. It'd basically be trying to argue a computer programmer might not know what email addresses look like. I'll toss it in the pile. A person who can literally walk down to the aetherial sea because the place where he lives dug a hole to it, doesn't know what's down there or how his afterlife works, even though it can and has been visited...even Minfilia the miner was able to explain how the afterlife works...but okay, fine. I surrender. It was just too complex a notion for his sweet little gleaner head.
I think they had to lobotomise him a little tiny bit for him to accept the plan to erase her and be hopeful at the end.
But also, even if her soul were to be released as a result of his actions, even then - the aetherial sea is not a hanging out place. I don’t think any scholar proved or even theorised that souls are meeting there and exchange news. It’s not the purpose of it. Also logically him being a very young Viera means it would be hundreds of years before he joins that fancy sea. No one is waiting for him, all memories wiped, souls reborn, maybe many times.
So to me it all sounds like a very out of touch wishful thinking. Cause really, who is he going to live that dream for? I wish he did it for himself, not his mother who abandoned him several times. I really hate that message.