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Like, this is all true. I love that you go through all of Elpis before even seeing the real Hydaelyn in EW because you see that god was once... a woman. A woman who liked dogs, and adventures, and beautiful landscapes, and teasing her friends. Combined with what happens to Minfilia, and what almost happens to Ryne and Krile, you as a character and player are actually kind of well-acquainted with what happens when a woman/girl is filled with so much love and so much self-sacrifice that she takes on powers far beyond her own in an attempt to set things right.

Venat became god willingly, but the circumstances were terrible. You see this with Minfilia too, and though I dislike that so much of her character is filtered through Thancred, the game makes it very clear that regardless of her acceptance of her fate that this is not fair. Minfilia had her whole life ahead of her as a leader and lover (of people and friends and family). Ryne, too, nearly gave herself up to a fate where she left behind the people and the world she cared about until Minfilia herself said no. Every time we see Krile possessed by Hydaelyn in EW we see her physically drained or flagging afterwards, but stonily determined to keep lending herself as a vessel because she thinks it’s the right thing to do.

I feel like when Venat, as God Herself, asks you to fight and kill her, she wants to break this cycle she started. In an extremely meta sense, it’s no more fridging. It ties perfectly into the core themes of Endwalker - those of persistence in the face of grief, of holding on to autonomy and hope. 

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