Your thoughts on Caius as an FF Villain?

[Lamia]

Caius is an intriguing villian due to his past and what he is. But for what he is trying to achieve in the game, I feel that he isn't properly motivated.

Some plot spoilers in my response hereI don't think from an outside perspective his motivation is just, but if I step into his shoes, I think maybe he has a few screws loose from witnessing centuries of human suffering and death all around him. He's a little insane, but I can see how his pain could build over the years and his depression could lead him to want to sort of just end everything. Considering that he knows how the timeline is going to end pretty poorly for humanity anyway, that humanity will die out completely in Noel's time, and since he actually lived through to see that time and see the end of humanity, I can see why he is trying to destroy the timeline. For him he's trying to just bring an end to human suffering, which he's seen too much of in his life. There is the part of me that wants to slap him in the face and say "EAT SOME BIRTHDAY CAKE AND BE HAPPY, YA TOOL!"

One thing though that seems like a plot hole... if Yeul died in Noel's time, why did Caius leave to kill the goddess so she wouldn't have to reincarnate again? I was under the impression that Yeul was actually born from a person. If there are no people left to re-birth her, won't she just die finally like everyone else? Since Noel is the last of the Paddra (Seeress Tribe) there's no way she'd be reincarnated, unless maybe there really were some other people alive, and Noel hooked up and they gave birth to another Yeul, but as I understand it, it's more than likely that there were no other people alive as Noel's tribe slowly died off without contact to outside humans for years it seems.

Caius is certainly not well developed compared to many FF villains, but I just overall found him a little more relatable and less annoying than a lot of them, as well.

Ah, yes. When you put it that way it makes more sense for why Caius is the way he is. Although it makes Etro and her seeress/guardian system look foolish. Etro doesn't seem to be the smartest goddess around though considering the other problems she has also caused...

and yeah, that is a plot hole. One of a quite a few.

Nonetheless, I really like the characters of Yeul and Caius, I think they are some of the most interesting characters in the series.