LogFAQs > #961009956

I really liked the exchange of "That, I can't deny" and "Finally, acceptance!" for my character and Zenos too because I denied calling him my friend at the end of Stormblood.

Still wouldn't, but I like to think of it as Zenos changing the way he thought about things, but still finding satisfaction that there is common ground.

Also just in general I feel like a lot of people miss Zenos' importance to the meta narrative of Nihilism vs Existentialism that Endwalker has. Like yeah, he's still not the most compelling character there is, but as a plot device to serve that he's GREAT because he is literally the walking definition of living for the moment and screw all else.

So you end up fighting the extremes of both sides of the argument.

Likewise, it's interesting that Hermes and Meteion show up walking alongside Venat, Emet, and Hythloadaeus in the ending art. Because Hermes might have been seriously depressed and channeled that in the wrong way, but he also had a point. It wasn't right to treat others the way the ancients did, and the WoL and Venat were clearly bothered by it (as would, I feel, most players be). He wasn't evil, he just lacked a proper support system and the one he created was inherently flawed in a way that no one in that society knew how to repair.