Fordola

[347SPECTRE]

If they gave her any actual redeeming qualities (or at least made them more apparent) then maybe I'd be all for a redemption arc, but as it stands I'd rather see her dead. Same for Yotsuyu.

[Jennika]

I guess I'm in the minority, I don't agree with what she did but I like her character.

[Khalithar]

I want her and yotsuyu dead personally.

[Savagelf]

they said same about the person that killed Haurchent

[ErryK]

If they gave her any actual redeeming qualities

See, I think this is my issue with Fordola, besides her sad excuse of a backstory. At least Yotsuyu had domestic abuse to back up her hatred for her people, and if you ignore that, she has her cattiness and willpower going for her. Fordola had nothing special, she was just Zenos's dog.

[Rymm]

I feel fairly confident that SE is going to do one of two things with her-

Either she is going to see the light, be redeemed, and become an important and welcome member of the new Ala Mhigan state while almost everyone conveniently forgets the atrocities she committed in the name of the Empire and the few who don't are presented as bitter, piteous villains who can't let go of the past and who we have to fight and/or kill to protect her.

Or she is going to hold on to her Imperial loyalties until some bitter end where she sees the light at the last moment and sacrifices her life and dies in a shining blaze of glory to save something or someone important (Lyse/the WoL/Ala Mhigo as a whole/etc.)

Personally, I will like her so much, much more if SE uses neither of these tropes with her as they have been done to death in almost every form of media, and literally anything else they do would be more interesting and make her a better character.

[Ametrine]

I really don't know what they plan to do with either Fordola or Yotsuyu. Both are similar narratives of victims of circumstance that the empire played to it's advantage.

All I know is Ysayle's non-redemption was trash, with her story ended up far less than, "oh no I killed children and ruined the lives of thousands of the poorest people of Ishgard, I need to fix this!" and more "Wait... I'm not actually Shiva....? ....oh."

And then she jumped off a dragon from thousands of feet in the air and made Estinien sad.



So, honestly, SE doesn't have to do too much to be a step up from Ysayle's redemption.

[dinnertime]

It would be interesting what SE will do to both Fordola and Yotsuyu in the future MSQ.
Both were pretty horrible in their own ways, but Yotsuyu was worse because she made innocent people suffer because of her past which is selfish. Fordola at least thought she was doing something for her countrymen but it wasn't the best idea ever.

[alimdia]

See, I think this is my issue with Fordola, besides her sad excuse of a backstory. At least Yotsuyu had domestic abuse to back up her hatred for her people, and if you ignore that, she has her cattiness and willpower going for her. Fordola had nothing special, she was just Zenos's dog.

Idk, being born and raised as a soldier slave seems like a pretty strong reason to do what she did, she also explained her intent, to get the empire to recognize her homeland as people, to give them better rights, which is wrong but you can't expect her to just follow the resistance when she had been trained as a garlean slave-soldier since birth, watching the ala mhigan resistance fail to the empire countless times.

She won't be redeemed because she has done too many bad things, but she won't die a villain, I'm fully expecting her to die protecting Ala Mhigo when the garleans launch their counterattack.

[ErryK]

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I don't expect much out of a flat character in the first place. She's such a predictable character. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯