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Bahamut gets framed as- not benevolent per se, but *good* by the narrative. You’re told that this is the god who created the crystal, the prophecy, the ring. This is the god who has been in your corner from the jump. Don’t question it too hard. Go quietly into that goodnight.

The chessmaster has never once had the best interests of their pawns at heart.

Hold Bahamut up to scrutiny and he is the reason that Noct must die. Who orchestrated the growing darkness? Who demanded sacrifice to stop that same darkness in its tracks?

It is, I maintain, not necessary sacrifice. There exists a world in which the ring of the lucii demands a blood toll- a life for a life- and it goes unpaid. There exists a world that the crystal demands a blood toll- the king for the world- and it too goes unpaid. Still, the sun rises.

So then if Noct’s death is unnecessary, that means Bahamut is demanding the frivolous death of the man Gladio, Ignis, and Prompto swore to defend. That makes Bahamut a threat, just the same as daemons or Nifilheim or Ardyn or Ifrit.

Nyx puts it on and dies. Because, we are told, you must die if you are not of royal blood and use the ring.

But then Ignis puts it on, and doesn't die. And we get to take a look at the Kings inside, and see how they basically go "we established that non-royals who use the ring must die, but this non-royal here is useful, so let's spare his life and just take his eyes instead."

Turns out that the "you must die" was not so binding after all. They could very well have spared Nyx too, but it was their choice not to.

Likewise, Comrades establishes that the Gods can bring any long-dead person back to life at any time and for no cost. Just snap their godly fingers, and hundreds of violently murdered people came back, good as new. Nyx stays dead though.

Humans defeated the Scourge 2000 years ago, when if you weren't Somnus you had to fight with only horses and swords and nothing else. Humans then kept the Scourge under control for 2000 years, during which it killed very few people and wasn't considered a threat anymore. In fact, humans did such a great job handling the Scourge, that Ardyn had to spend 30 years crippling two armies from the inside and carefully growing it back in secret labs and planning its release as a massive surprise attack from the center of a mayor city, to allow it to take over and become a threat again.

Yet we are supposed to believe that making the Scourge to kill like 90% of humanity over a decade and then sacrifice Noctis was The Only Way(TM) to save the world. We promise, absolutely no other way that massive modern armies with airships and laser snipers and extremely advanced medical science could handle a pathology that had been pushed back to the edge of the world for two millennia.

Surely the fact that Bahamut is literally the God Of War has nothing at all to do with said The Only Way(TM) being incredibly violent and with massive casualties.

After all, a spin-off manga tells us that Bahamut shed a tear for humanity once, when he told Shiva that she was a dumb bitch for caring about genocides, and he gave his favourite family a ring that works by literally sucking on their soul and shortening their lifespan, so that must mean he's a good guy.

Shiva also tells us that he once fought to save the world. In the same speech where she tells us that the gods are incredibly fickle and can routinely go from savior to destroyer and viceversa, and that protecting the world often meant "protecting it from themselves." In the same story where half the Gods Noctis meets try to kill him (in one case, because a god took offense that he begged for help), but they are still considered the good guys.

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