Playing through the expansion pack for ‘Xenoblade Chronicles 2’ for the first time has made me enjoy and appreciate Mikhail much more than I already did. I’ve completed the base game and have about 20 hours into the expansion pack but just from that alone makes Mikhail a favorite of mine.

Oh god.Mikhail fans... pls. Get ready for some unpopular opinions: I don't understand Torna fetishism. These are some of the most capriciously cruel, irresponsible, and disloyal people in the game. Even after the expansion, i don't believe any of their actions are justified, exusable, or even sympathetic.

After watching his party of friends fight Malos, a person who openly threatens to destroy the whole world, and after seeing mythra destroy Torna inadvertently while trying to stop malos, his reaction to that is to join an evil organization that actually wants to assist malos in destroying the world even after mythra weakened him to the point where he couldn't do it all by himself. This is improbably "justified" because his friend milton died and he was sad. For starters, milton's whole "arc" is a clear retcon whose only purpose is to humanize mikhail and make him look more justified and secondly milton would clearly never have supported blaming mythra for everything and trying to kill everyone. Then in XC2 mikhail promises patroka, who he supposedly liked, that he would come back alive and instead of doing that he uses the monocerous to do a suicidal attack on Indol (which i doubt was even necessary at all, as they had the situation under control with the artificial blade army, not to mention amalthus had already fled.) That act undoubtedly killed lots of innocent civilians as well as an innocent Titan.

I really don't understand why peolle give jin and mikhail a free pass and idolize them so much and yet see amalthus as the true villain. Torna is really fucked up. Keeping your dead GF in an ice block is fucked up. Killing haze was really fucked up and it makes absolutely no difference that Jin assumed it's "what she would have wanted." I view Torna as kind of like Bernie Sanders supporters who say they will vote for trump if they can't get their way. You're just being a little shit and literally paying zero attention to what is actually going on, just venting frustration and forcing the adults to deal with the fallout.

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