Zenos: These Fleeting Moments | FFXIV: Endwalker Tribute

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  1. Going to miss Zenos SOOOO much and Luke Allen-Gale, the VA. Just LOVE that voice sliding over my skin………………
    Personally I don't BELIEVE ZENOS is dead, did ANYONE use white auracite on him ?

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  2. Sometimes we dont really need an overly complicated villain, sometimes we just want a villain that enjoys themselves by the despair and destruction they carry though their enjoyment.

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  3. I didnt expect such a cover would work.. but it suits so well.. TY for making this. This really sums up the WHOLE Zenos experience w/o the thicc and golf bag memes. TY so much.

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  4. Damn. I remember a time where so many people disliked this guy for being the blandest antagonist in the game.
    Felt like I was the only person who actually liked this guy even a little until now

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  5. From childhood’s hour I have not been

    As others were—I have not seen

    As others saw—I could not bring

    My passions from a common spring—

    From the same source I have not taken

    My sorrow—I could not awaken

    My heart to joy at the same tone—

    And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone—

    Then—in my childhood—in the dawn

    Of a most stormy life—was drawn

    From ev’ry depth of good and ill

    The mystery which binds me still—

    From the torrent, or the fountain—

    From the red cliff of the mountain—

    From the sun that ’round me roll’d

    In its autumn tint of gold—

    From the lightning in the sky

    As it pass’d me flying by—

    From the thunder, and the storm—

    And the cloud that took the form

    (When the rest of Heaven was blue)

    Of a demon in my view—

    – Edgar Allan Poe

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  6. Zenos sums up what any frenemy is. We fight against each other or with eachother it doesn't matter as long as we resonate. With each torment we strive to be better and make each other better. With the last resounding crash we'll die for eachother because the fight is beautiful and the only reason worth living. Even if right now I am completely dominated by my frenemy every time I will never stop fighting because I love it and this world is so tediously boring

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  7. ngl i hated this guy from beginning to end but i can admit he was well written. hes meant to be despised and hes perfectly ok with it..hell he welcomes it himself because its just one more tick on the checkbox of reasons to fight him

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  8. At first Zenos didn't really do much for me as a character, but the more we delved into his character and motivations as the story goes on the more I came to appreciate what he brought to the table. I felt a sense of pity for him despite his actions, never able to truly appreciate life or the things in it other than that hunt for one proper, all encompassing battle. And when he called the WoL his only 'friend', even in his own deluded ideas of what that meant, it just hit me right in the feels. I couldn't truly hate the character after that. <3
    (Also his voice actor (in English anyway) is arguably one of the best in the game in my opinion. Say what you will about the character, his voice was amazing and fit him perfectly. lol)

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  9. I loved Zenos. He's a simple, complicated character. He can not help the simpleness. The man, while exceptional has lived a lack luster life. He never knew friendship or joy. How could he understand what he feels and apply it in an appropriate manner?
    "I have but one pleasure and it's all I have to give." (Paraphrased)
    Honestly he did the best he could with what he knew in how to express himself. Seeing him struggle in what should feel natural made me feel for him and appreciate his character. He wanted to share and express that one joy he has only ever known … and that was the joy of beating the absolute fuck out of someone and getting obliterated just as hard in return. It's a sad existence and a bittersweet end.

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  10. Goodbye, my dark mirror. Where everyone else wished for me to be a hero, you only wished I'd be true to myself. For as much I enjoy being the savior of the people, as much as I truly care for those I've come to call friends…

    I cannot deny… That I am indeed an adventurer, merely looking for the next thrill. Thank you, my closest friend. May our reunion at the source be a clash unending.

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  11. My opinion of Stormblood Zenos: "It infuriates me that I cannot fight you without giving you exactly what you want."
    My opinion of Endwalker Zenos: "I acknowledge that the real reason you frustrate me is because game recognizes game. HOWEVER! Due to a certain incident in Garlemald, you need to either stay dead this time, or come back and join the Scions in a probationary role under my personal supervision, preferably with 300% more chill."

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  12. Endsinger: I will end all of reality. Soaking all in death. Nothing can withstand me.
    Zenos looking at you: Let us dispense with this 'distraction' you and I.

    I cried tears of joy with that one.

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  13. I connected so hard with Zenos and Hermes. I felt like they were the two sides of my personality, the light and the dark. And, in the end, their answers to the question, what is worth living for, I think, were so perfectly diametrically opposed. Ironically, it was the darker half, Zenos, who came to the right conclusion, while Hermes drowned in his own despair. Zenos, in his speech to Jullus, gives the "better" answer. That was, after all, what the game was all about: our answer to that question.

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