Quote Originally Posted by Rosenoire View Post
My problem is that it strains my suspension of disbelief to the breaking point to watch a character who is canonically capable of killing gods fall victim yet again to a fairly obvious face-heel turn. Mizija is Yotsuyu is the Ivy: a poor mistreated lower-class girl who betrays her country in favor of the Empire. As soon as we saw the cutscene where people were being horrible and classist to her, it was obvious that she was going to stab us in the back--and given how often that's happened in game, I feel like the WoL shouldn't have been caught completely flat-footed. The part that I genuinely felt was lazy writing was that they've gone to this well over and over again.
That is pretty much my big issue with the story so far. Aside from my disdain for yet more Ivalice references (with classism being a big issue in Tactics at least) they've done this gimmick time and again. It's to the point the PC should immediately be wary of anyone we're told was mistreated for being of common birth in a highly stratified social system, especially when the Empire is involved. It's boring and stale at this point - "highly stratified social system mistreated its lower class, so now they've joined up with the Empire and are out for revenge."

Never you mind the injustice Misija's out for vengeance in retaliation for is even more ancient than Nidhogg's grudge against Ishgard...