I've fallen in love...with an NPC

[Lauront]

I don't like him. Never liked the character and it hasn't changed. His voice acting is solid (but then so is Zenos's...) and he plays an interesting plot role.

I think of the allied NPCs travelling with you in the MSQ, the only ones I particularly like are Urianger, Thancred and Y'shtola, and Ardbert if we're counting ghosts. The rest I was quite happy to offer up on a silver platter to my real buddy, Emet-Selch.

[Theodric]

I don't like him. Never liked the character and it hasn't changed. His voice acting is solid (but then so is Zenos's...) and he plays an interesting plot role.

I think of the allied NPCs travelling with you in the MSQ, the only ones I particularly like are Urianger, Thancred and Y'shtola, and Ardbert if we're counting ghosts. The rest I was quite happy to offer up on a silver platter to my real buddy, Emet-Selch.

Ardbert felt like a much more authentic 'buddy' character to me. The Exarch suffers from the same problem as Aymeric and Haurchefant. They have an obsessive need to tell the Warrior of Light how amazing he is at every possible turn. They might as well be Tempered! I miss Aymeric's original frigid personality and his ruthless habit of putting Ishgard first and foremost. Nowadays he's just Haurchefant 2.0.