[He's glad they're texting, so Solus doesn't see that suspicious face Tyler's making.]
You didn't make him under proper conditions, though. You've admitted as much. While I'm prepared to take your word on many things, I can't imagine that you could remain calm enough to properly summon something so massive - that the fourteen of you were all able to remain calm and rational in the middle of what you've already referred to as a terrifying and unprecedented crisis. Mortals can panic to the point of mindlessness in familiar situations, I find it inconceivable that you all were capable of it in the midst of the apparent end of your world. It's not strictly your fault, and I'm not blaming you for your very legitimate fear, but to claim that Zodiark is an exemplary example of summoning is a blatantly false premise.
If you could toy with my own perspective of it, based on what you've told me. Your world nearly ended; more than half of everyone you've ever known and cared about is dead, lost to the calamity or sacrificed; your leaders and strongest proponents of free will and choice, to the point of allowing you to choose when and where you would like to end your life, are all suddenly spellbound and mildlessly, ruthlessly in servitude to a summon the likes of which has never been seen. Would you not be terrified as well, not knowing if your leaders saw you still as people, or just energy to feed into your newfound god?
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You didn't make him under proper conditions, though. You've admitted as much. While I'm prepared to take your word on many things, I can't imagine that you could remain calm enough to properly summon something so massive - that the fourteen of you were all able to remain calm and rational in the middle of what you've already referred to as a terrifying and unprecedented crisis. Mortals can panic to the point of mindlessness in familiar situations, I find it inconceivable that you all were capable of it in the midst of the apparent end of your world. It's not strictly your fault, and I'm not blaming you for your very legitimate fear, but to claim that Zodiark is an exemplary example of summoning is a blatantly false premise.
If you could toy with my own perspective of it, based on what you've told me. Your world nearly ended; more than half of everyone you've ever known and cared about is dead, lost to the calamity or sacrificed; your leaders and strongest proponents of free will and choice, to the point of allowing you to choose when and where you would like to end your life, are all suddenly spellbound and mildlessly, ruthlessly in servitude to a summon the likes of which has never been seen. Would you not be terrified as well, not knowing if your leaders saw you still as people, or just energy to feed into your newfound god?