Quote Originally Posted by The_Promised View Post
Hate him and his arrogant sister. I'm happy with Nero and Zenos. The Empire have the best npcs. Lyse is all arrogant with Fordola too. For me they can kill Lyse and we stay with Fordola as our friend and waifu. There is a cutscene that I laugh hard when we kill a mob and than Lyse appears on the fight pose asking if the warrior of light (us) was alright. When we going take the spots on this game and not the npcs? I wanna Yugiri on the holophotes.
Arrogant is the last thing Alphinaud is, especially after the Crystal Warriors saga. Alisae's arrogance is only around her brother, because she knows that Alphinaud intentionally steps back because he doesn't want to tread boundaries. Zenos? He's a mindless killing animal that had to be put down. Fordola would kill us the instant we turned our backs on her, because of who we are and what we represent. She is not, nor will she ever, our waifu. The WoL is not evil. We do not work for the Empire. In the games many shades of grey, the Empire is one that is definitely not something most people would support.

We will always take a back seat to the NPCs because this is a JRPG, with a siln

. If I had my way, Alphinaud would be relegated to being the Scion bean-counter that he's always secretly longed to be, and Raubahn or Merlyb or Kan-E would be leading the charge.
If there's one thing Gaius was right about, it's how weak the city state leaders truly are. They might be powerful individuals, but until the twins showed up, they were content to let Ala Mhigo rot, stay walled within their cities, and let the Scions deal with the primals (Company of Heros was an exception). Alphinaud may appear to be a weal bean counter, but he's shown he can handle himself in a fight (I know many summoners would love to have the moonstone carbuncle), he's the most effective leader and politician in the game, he's one of the few people who genuinely appreciates the toll that WoL is under, and he's also one of the few friends the story gives us.