Seymour was bland. He was a boring, vacuous, non-entity. And somehow, when he dies, he just gets worse.Originally Posted by Pete for President
Well said. I definitely agree on Seymour being a great villain and he indeed has the same goal as the party has. It's also pretty rare to see a villain be so friendly to the party (and all of Spira) at first, and Wakka's dilemma when you first fight him always gets to me.I can't even begin to understand how you came to this conclusion! Seymour is far from being a terrible villain. His motivations are definitely misguided. He wants to become Sin - or at the very least, just kill everything himself - in the pursuit of ending Spira's inevitable cycle. If you think about it, he's actually after the same thing the party wants, in a sense. But his means and the specific end that they lead to are all wrong according to, I think, most people.
But when you think about his background as a half breed and the sheer amount of torment he must have endured, then coupled with his mother's death, the identity crisis with his whole being half n half, and that. Then obviously his pursuit of power and oh man Seymour is actually a rather great villain. He's creepy, but suave. The whole of Spira loves him. I could easily compare his insanity to that of Kefka, and then point out the fact that at least there is a reason for Seymour to be a sociopath.
I could expand further, but really, I think Seymour is a far greater villain than people give him credit. Also, I defer to Goldenboko on all other points: this game is a masterpiece and we should learn to appreciate it more.
I don't think I can appreciate this masterpiece more than I already do though, it's been my #1 fav game since I first finished it in 2003/2004...
His motivations, in addition to being cliche, make no damned sense. Destroying Spira will not save it, and we see proof of that thousands of times throughout the game. Heck, Seymour is proof of it himself. He was destroyed, he died, and yet he is not at rest or at peace, instead he gets even more obsessive over his destruction goals. He's more driven, more determined, and more boring after he's dead.
Auron died, yet he wasn't at peace. Nor was Belgimine, Maester Micah, Maechan, or any of the hundreds of others of unsent we see throughout Spira.
And, no matter what your arguments of "oh, he's half-Guado, so that's why he looks like that", it doesn't change that his character design is frelling stupid. Nor, frankly, is it that accurate. His hair is far longer and more intricate than either any Guado or human character in the game. The Guado almost all have short hair, that, while styled similarly to a much smaller degree, don't match up with the far larger idiotic hair design Seymour wears.
He's a boring, cookie-cutter, stupid villain, and one of the worst, if not the worst, thing in the game.
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