Quote Originally Posted by Draginhikari View Post
The thing is we have seen diplomacy and politics in the Main Story before, it is not exactly a foreign concept. All Minfilia probably needed was a short cut scene, or even a general dialogue between her and other characters to at least given an indication of what she does. Same thing with Lyse, she really needed a scene of her leading or inspiring others or something of that nature. It didn't need to be a massive thing but both ARR and the Ala Mhigo section of Stormblood kind of wrote themselves into a corner where there was no time for anything that wasn't immediately relevant to the plot.



To be fair, if people are skipping the story, they probably don't care about any of the characters regardless of how good or bad they are written.
I don't think we've seen a character who only does that though and is considered part of the main cast. Alphinaud was like that, and people hated him previously (not necessarily solely for that reason but I imagine it played some factor).