villain, partially redeemed through mem loss, gets memory back and goes on a tear, you gotta strike her down unfortunately despite her progress is like, the essential gist
the new ultimate involves saving a beloved dead character but the events that play out in the fight shows changing history isnt a great idea and him living fucks up a lot of the timeline badly and you gotta just let him go and let history be
I think there's pretty good evidence that going Tsukuyomi was pretty much suicide for Yotsuyu especially since she doesn't possess the echo and can't really SURVIVE going primal
a thing to remember is that it's also mirroring another redemption arc in another place that's going on at the same time. it makes me super sad to think about yotsuyu, but remembering that fordola is her narrative foil at that point of story makes it a little less pointless feeling
she is the dark side of that situation, where you can't escape the weight of what you did and it drowns you, while fordola is the same situation but she decides to keep going and do what she can to atone
yeah she's extremely also ready to just be like "yeah people will likely hate me, ill just have to live with it, thats consequence, they can choose to forgive, i cant make them"
The post-war Stormblood I really liked in general because of how open-eyed it is with redemption and that true redemption is beyond many, and if you achieve it it requires you to do so much to even grasp a hint of it
One of which does not include how it completely shafts one of my favorite characters from that entire expansion