Final Fantasy XIV - Kiwi Free Company

[Well Intentioned]

zoraal ja is one of the worst villains in FFXIV. There's nothing to him, maybe one of the cutscenes I skipped explains it, but I still don't get why he was so evil
Maybe Bakool Ja Ja's huge Chad energy made him go to into beta rage, even being voiced by jotaro doesn't save him

You only really get a sense of it in his EX trial.

His motivations are fine, it's just conveyed really poorly.

 

[SnowBall]

Zoraal Ja's entire personality can be summed up as "daddy issues". Daddy didn't love him and tell him he was the most special enough. He can be distilled down to, "I should be the most special and the bestest at everything because my daddy was the strongest"

A lot of Hiroi’s writing in this game even outside of DT involves characters with daddy/mommy issues and parental abandonment. Almost every single big character introduced in DT’s msq was either abandoned by their parents and/or had daddy issues. There’s also two instances of a crazy woman falling in love with a male character and having his child that gets abandoned by one or both parents (Gulool Ja’s mom and Athena) It wasn’t too bad in Pandaemonium because the writing was fine and Athena was an amazing batshit insane villain and also it was just a raid series (and an optional one too.) DT on the other hand is an entire expansion of this and terrible writing and bad villains on top of it.

I take it he has daddy issues of his own and a bad history of dealing with crazy women. Isihkawa, Maehiro, Oda, and the other writers for this game aren’t 100% perfect but at least their writing doesn’t look like someone’s projecting all their personal issues and trauma into the game’s story and using it as a therapy diary.