And just, wow. I'm a bit disappointed they tried to cop out Ramza and Alma's death, because it feels like that cheapens the whole thing, but it's easy enough to head canon.
As the credits were rolling, I was like "What happened to Delita and Ovelia!?" Google the ending as the credits are rolling. "Where is this scene, I didn't see it! Did I miss something?" Last scene plays...oof. I knew they couldn't have a happy ending because their relationship was fundamentally based on a massive power imbalance and one side taking advantage of that, but I was not remotely expecting that. The image of Ovelia on the ground, dead, next to the flowers is just stuck in my brain.
My first instinct was to say, "Well that was a sucky ending! It was just out of nowhere to make me suffer!" but after a few minutes of reeling, I realized that it wasn't. The point of Delita's character was that he started using people as pawns because he had to, in order to make the world a better place. But once someone starts doing that, and stops seeing people as people...they can't just turn that off, not even for the person they love the most.
Does that ultimately make them a "bad person"? Objectively, Delita saved thousands, if not tens of thousands or more lives by ending the war and preserving the peace in the era that followed. He made life better for the common people of Ivalice for hundreds of years (even though I take issue with the fact that he didn't clean out the church of Galabdos). But that also doesn't negate the fact that having to live as his political pawn, with no autonomy, after a life of being abused and locked away, wouldn't be a life worth living.
What does it mean to save others, if you become so damaged in the process that the people you love would literally rather die than be near you?
Two other observations:
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It took me a few hours to remember that Agrias gave Ovelia that knife at like, the start of Chapter 1. She could've stabbed Delita at any point, but she legitimately trusted him and that things would change once everyone was safe. Apparently, it didn't.
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Was Ovelia's tipping point when Olan released the Duria Papers? Delita probably had several opportunities to save Alma, but it wasn't part of his plan to get Ovelia on the throne, so he didn't bother. That directly led to Ramza having to follow Alma into Murond, where they died. In a sense, Delita didn't just leave them to die, but kind of encouraged it - he needed someone to deal with Ultima, but knew that whoever went down there probably wasn't coming back. I think that's what Ovelia meant when she said that Delita killed Ramza. I also wonder if Delita kept the church around to keep the people under control, so Ovelia finding out that the church is why Ramza and Alma died and then burning Olan at the stake for the truth would be...soul breaking.
Unfortunately, part of finishing the game so late is that I missed all the discourse about the ending when it originally happened, so I would love to hear people's thoughts, plot-wise or mechanics-wise.
Then you fundamentally don't agree with the principles behind federation, and the fediverse might not be for you. It's funny that you are mad and "want to curate your own browsing experience", but aren't willing to put in the effort to run a simple script (https://github.com/wescode/lemmy_migrate), pick an instance or a few that match your stance (they're out there and much more common than the niche Beehaw serves), or start your own instance.
Do you know how much effort being federated with spam factories / outrage machines generates for the mods and admins? When you depend on individual blocking, you get to click and forget about every bad actor or community. You don't see the ongoing hours that mods and admins have to pour in to dealing with that actor or community as they keep spitting out garbage.
Also, good thing you're on a very unlocked instance then. If you're mad about your instance doing whatever, then take it up with your admins, not Beehaw. Beehaw is a uniquely curated instance primarily intended to serve as a space where queer people don't have to get bombarded with non-queer people being ignorant. We deal with that enough in real life.