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imperial-nuisance-rudje · 7 months

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I think my most toxic trait as a Zenos enjoyer is wanting to 1v1 everyone who says that Zenos actively wants to kill his opponents

Like, completely disregarding that it is actively ignoring the text even in StB there (and that he consistently wants the WoL especially to live), he, uh, is written as having a desire for more the opposite to happen. Very, very consistently. His drive to live is solely linked to brief moments of pleasure-from-struggle and when that drops he explicitly wants to die so he can preserve the moment (and like. *looks at the end of 6.0* if he wanted to kill the WoL he would not be disappointed when they fall before the game allows it, nor would they have lived after given his will was strong enough to bring them back if they bite it). He wants struggle and lacks the ability to give enough of a shit to hold back if someone walks up and says they're going to go for his head.

Like, death is a side effect of what he's after, it's not the goal and he explicitly considers it a waste of life. Even fighting isn't the goal, the goal is to struggle, to need to put effort in. The WoL is just the only person to put him in that state as he currently is, hence his obsession.

#final fantasy #zenos yae galvus #zenos viator galvus #like there's plenty of readings i find irritating but ignorable bc it's stuff about the grey areas he lives in #but he's very consistent about... not valuing life in itself but considering needless death to be wasteful #and it's a trait the game takes you aside and tells you directly as part of the msq multiple times #there's zero implication the game comes out and says this #in several places including z's own dialogue #the end result is the same but it matters a lot for discussions of him as a character that the motive is to struggle #the end result is irrelevant to him #vs like. omega. omega's after the end result of ultimate victory #the process doesn't matter to it except as a way to remove flaws from itself #now his definition of needless could definitely use work and he is still a bastard #but getting the motive right means you stop being the people who ignore the game text bc you don't like him

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