The way Square Enix depicts our characters...are we helpless, or are we heroes?

[Abriael]

I like the "being more experienced as you progress further" idea. The stories can show that we have gotten stronger, as we have, and that doesn't take away from the fact that many others have gotten stronger as well. It fits.

Considering that those "many others" don't appear *at all* in the storyline (because there's no logical way to make them appear), that part is completely inconsequential.

If you have nothing to say, why say anything? You keep circling around the fact that the story makes you seem like an ordinary adventurer among everyone else that you are and will be regardless of what happens. You said nothing that would go against this fact, and you won't.

Again, because you said so? Ignoring the arguments that prove you wrong doesn't make you right, you know?

[Betelgeuzah]

Considering that those "many others" don't appear *at all* in the storyline (because there's no logical way to make them appear), that part is completely inconsequential.

Yet they do appear everywhere else. Which in turn makes it consequential how you are portrayed in the story. Because once the story ends, you are there with everyone else. Not alone.

You continue to deny the facts and you won't change. Just give up.

[SilvertearRen]

Yet they do appear everywhere else. Which in turn makes it consequential how you are portrayed in the story. Because once the story ends, you are there with everyone else. Not alone.

You continue to deny the facts and you won't change. Just give up.

Like I said, you and Abriael are correct to an extent. The both of you need to stop responding to each other.