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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2020-07-23 05:15 pm

[ SECRET POST #4948 ]


⌈ Secret Post #4948 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 10 secrets from Secret Submission Post #708.
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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

(Anonymous) 2020-07-24 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
(ffxiv secret)

Emet-selch is not only the best-written villain in the entire Final Fantasy franchise, he's also one of the best-written villains I've come across in any media at all. He's incredibly nuanced, and you see him from so many different angles that it's impossible to know where his story is going.

Which is why I so desperately hate that he's locked behind 400+ hours of prior expansions and all their necessary content. Not that I dislike any of the expansions at all (and I'll even still go to bat for the storyline of Realm Reborn, even if the pacing was garbage), but... Shadowbringers is genuinely one of the best games I've ever played, and it's so hard to share that with my friends because of the daunting amount of work to get there.

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

(Anonymous) 2020-07-24 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
Agreed. When I first saw him in the Stormblood patches, I rolled my eyes because he just seemed so ridiculous and over-the-top that I was sure I was going to hate him.

And then Shadowbringers happened, and I was absolutely blown away. THAT is how you write a villain and make them at once a terrible person and yet also deeply sympathetic. I feel like he's ruined me for all other villains because I've only ever encountered one or two others who have come close to the sheer amount of depth and nuance that he had.