So I figure in Elpis, a little before everything goes south at the Ktisis Hylerboreia, the Warrior of Light is about the most stressed out person alive. Everything from Zenos stealing their body to arriving in Elpis has been, like, three days. Everyone in Elpis is doomed and they can’t save any of them, talking to either Hades or Venat is giving them a weird guilt complex, and they’re wildly repressing everything because it’s uhhh the final fucking days back home and bad feelings make you turn into an abomination that eats your friends.

So Hythlodaeus, in his infinite wisdom and infiniter sight, recognises a poor soul on the brink of a howling meltdown and takes them home for the night of sexy sexy tlc