My view on the whole thing is...

Back in Guardian of Eorzea, Alphinaud kept spouting praises at you. Then on An Allied Perspective, he's suddenly "on sellswords?!" with a very discriminative tone right there, as if THE WARRIOR OF LIGHT was not a SELLSWORD HIS/HERSELF. So yeah, I'm not really surprised that his character let that Crystal Braves thing get to his head and that things turned out this way.



As for the Scions, I'd have to disagree that Y'shtola was useless. Like the city-state leaders, it was a mix of shock and wtf seeing as the whole thing is a political issue and things can go horribly wrong either way. At least unlike the other Scions who just put their arms over their heads as if that would protect them, she put up a shield for the whole group. Might I note that the "evil" Braves and Blades were much dumber because the Chamber of Rule is a circular area... they could have just gone around the other side to chase the group instead of facing Yda and Papalymo.

And if I really could control my character, I would have:
- reported Ilberd to Raubahn or Alphinaud as soon as I noticed that he was way too chummy with Yuyuhase.
- helped Riol out more.
- slapped Minfilia for moaning about Moenbryda again when WILRED WAS JUST MURDERED.
- left the vial of whatchamacallit to the lover-resurrecting alchemist because I'm a level 50 alchemist instead of pocketing the weird thing.
- LISTENED TO THE DRAGON MORE.

Lastly, I would have thrown that mug of hot cocoa (or coffee) at Alphinaud's face just because.