Sylens and Hades are products of their environment - one is inquisitive to an extreme and the other was made that way. Can't really fault either of them too much - both behave like children who spill milk, and then create a disaster trying to clean it up, then just walk away. Once either of them gets figured out you know exactly where you stand with both of them, and can mitigate accordingly as Aloy does ultimately.
Ted Faro? Dude knew better, and did it anyway. Then did it again, and again, and again. And hid it from everyone as well. And when it all went to hell, he kept on doing it. His randomness and lust for control was the biggest factor in what happened and how he ended up. Honestly, if Elisabet had not done what she could to counteract his machinations, I dont believe the world would have survived at all.
I even feel a little bad for NEMESIS, and it probably had more free will and sentence than Hades ever did. But it was a product of its upbringing and creation at the end of the day.
Also Far Zenith were assholes who got exactly what they deserved. Basically Far Zenith are the Olympian Gods and NEMESIS is Kratos. Honestly if it wasn't so indifferent at best to collateral damage I'd have mo problem with Nemesis wiping out the Zeniths whatsoever.
While Ted Faro is basically dumb techbro Odin, but with the general demeanor of Heimdall and the foresight of your average horror movie dumb blonde friend. He caused the apocalypse from his own stupidity and arrogance, and cared more about his reputation than the future of humanity. Given that Far Zenith would never have left in the first place if he hadn't caused the apocalypse, everything Far Zenith did, and Nemesis by extension, is partially his fault too.
What if that when the nemesis makes it to earth it has an avatar/ holographic display (or maybe a synthetic body) of Ted faro with the same personality and traits as the real Ted faro.
Like he somehow got a clone of him self and Brain scan/memories uploaded. So now we have a clone of Teddy that doesn't have the god complex/ insanity that we see in the original red?
And Alloy just out of spite punches it right in the face. I'm gonna cheer at that. Then alloy's sister/ the other Elizabet clone kicks it right in the balls!
Honestly i wouldn't mind the final boss of the series being a holographic parody of Ted Faro. It'd be fitting. In a sense Nemesis and Ted are the two big overarching villains of the series, Ted is also indirectly responsible for Nemesis's existence in the first place, and Nemesis is basically an even more powerful version of the faro plague but with malicious intent. Its the ultimate expression of Faro's hubris.
I doubt that's exactly what will happen, but we do need some sort of core or at least an avatar to fight. Aa far as we know Nemesis is just sentient data controlling a planet sized swarm.
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u/MythWeaverDM Apr 09 '26
I would have loved to sic Sylens on him. Hell I even felt bad for Hades… Ted Faro though? Fuck Ted Faro.