Our passive characters and why the 2.55 story fails (BIG SPOILERS) (rant warning)

[Kallera]

Not what you would have done? That's immaterial; The WoL apparently is SE's character, not ours. Not resisting arrest isn't out of character for Mr. Smile-And-Nod.

Yoshida has stated in prior interviews that in ffxiv, we are playing our own characters, and not a preexisting character set by SE like Cloud or Lightning.

Otherwise we would have no say ever in how our character acts and responds and they might as well be voiced and characterized with a past and such.

But since we have our own characters, even if there is still a plot, we have our own involvement, with different adventurers that come from all walks of life.

And that's good, because it provides investment in our characters and the story they are in.