Anyone else bored by Cait Sith?

In FFXI she had a big personality and a particular manner of speech. I know it's a completely different character in XIV (despite being the same model) ... but she just seems so....boring.

Pretty sure Cait Sith is a dude... assuming Cait Sith has a sexual identity.

... and no, it's not going to be like XI Cait Sith because this isn't XI.

In FFXIV, Cait Sith is a he, in XI Cait Sith was a she. I can see the confusion.

One was a living deus ex machina and the other is a particularly long-lived magical familiar, but yea I don't see the point in comparing. Cait Sith was a major character in a XI expansion (whose storyline was delayed and drawn out over the course of what felt like ninety years), here he's a major character in one quest line. It's trying to compare Nidhoggs--you shouldn't because while they have the same name and outward appearance, they're totally different things.

Cait Sith in FFXI had certain peculiarities. Mannerisms. Quirks. Short phrases and redundancies, much in the way of Kobolds did she speak. She was also one in many. Many in one. Legion. Not all were in accord, and not all were good. No, no, some were not good at all. Cruel. Treacherous. A very unique personality, yes. Or personalities. A most intriguing individual. Or dividual.

It's true that Cait Sith in this game so far is pretty bland - though, to be fair, right now we only have Cait's own word that he's on the up-and-up. It's entirely possible that he has some angle that he hasn't revealed yet. It'd be interesting if he was trying to fulfill some Mhachi agenda left to him by his master that will cause him to turn on us at some point. While his master was supposedly a great pacifist as far as Mhachi sorcerers went, it was Cait Sith himself that told us that, so who's to say for sure?

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Originally Posted by Cilia

... and no, it's not going to be like XI Cait Sith because this isn't XI.

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The OP isn't asking for Cait Sith to be a clone of their XI counterpart, the OP is asking for Cait Sith to have a more interesting personality like they think the XI one does.

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Originally Posted by Mimilu

The OP isn't asking for Cait Sith to be a clone of their XI counterpart, the OP is asking for Cait Sith to have a more interesting personality like they think the XI one does.

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Given XI veterans' proclivity towards wanting things in XIV to be like they were in XI, it may be an assumption but it's not an entirely unfair one, especially given there are other Cait Siths in the franchise but XI's was specifically called out.

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Originally Posted by Rocl

In FFXIV, Cait Sith is a he,

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WHAT!? But those eyelashes.

'E doe'n't 'ave 'n ootrageous Sco'ish accent like 'e did in FF7 neither.

Wasted potential, considering the Celtic influences all over the Mhachi lore.

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Originally Posted by Heliantheae

WHAT!? But those eyelashes.

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Aye!

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Stacia: Cait Sith has his furry little head buried in that book, learnin' as much as he can about the Nullstone. I think I'll use this time to do some studyin' of my own─“know thine enemy,” and all that.

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I have to agree, the lack of Scottish accents in the Mhach arc is pretty disappointing. I hope Scathach comes out her tomb with a right doozy of an accent to make up for it.

If Cait Sith survives the Mhach happenings I want him to be involved in the 60-70 BLM quests (assuming 4.0 follows the same class leveling structure of course). Seems like a pretty good character to be learning new BLM disciplines from.