Your character as background decoration <Spoilers>

[kehn]

Ok listen. i got to school for game development. and the reason your character don't do anything in these cut scenes (all the cut scenes in the game not this last one) is because logistically speaking it is a nightmare to create cut scenes for an MMO where you could be any given job at any given moment. There is no rational justification in the storytelling for this. that is where creativity comes in. How can you communicate that your character is an important piece to the story and the savior of eorzea (which has been said all the time even in this last quest) without the flashy combat that other npc have.

For gods sake stop talking about how fighting would make things worse. The scions are fighting. did you forget that when you were accused of killing the sultana they were automatically accused too of being accessories in the crime? If the scions are fighting you fought. you are the scions and the scions are you. As for the analogy of countries and assassination. that was a terrible analogy. Eorzea is one country. with city states that work really close together. A better analogy is if the state of new york and 2 other states had just worked together to repel forces from spain lets say and were a really close alliance and on the celebration a coop started to take over the leadership of new york and those other 2 states don't do anything about it because reasons.

Again there is no narrative justification for your character as part of the scions don't do anything. even if they give the gran company leaders a pass, which i do not since they should know better than leaving in the middle of the heat of the fight.