Who are your top three favorite NPCs?

[TroySoFab]

G'raha Tia is really the only character from the story I actually liked. Raubahn is kinda cool too.

[Brightshadow]

1.) Yotsuyu
2.) Lady iceheart
3.) Alphonse (Diamond weapon pilot)

[Kolsykol]

Y'shtola, Yotsuyu and Lyse.

I am biased in favor of Lyse because I am a MNK main tho lol, but I also think she gets a pretty unreasonable amount of hate.
It basically became popular to hate her and people kinda circlejerk about it.
But I guess she could be replaced with Yugiri or Alisaie too.
Alphinaud is a real bro too tho.

Yotsuyu is one of my favorite villains altogether I really loved her story.

[FudoMyoo]

Definitely Fran!!! That ass! oh my oh my!!!

[Vahlnir]

It basically became popular to hate her and people kinda circlejerk about it.

Nah, not really the case for me. Personally, I just think she's a boring character with almost no personality and terrible character development to boot. And by terrible character development I mean basically none at all. I don't really like Alisae but at least her character developed pretty well over time. I just don't like her, and no amount of character development will change that. I will admit, however, that Lyse was probably a victim of Stormblood's rushed writing. If things hadn't been so rushed, her character "development" might have been a bit more fleshed out and I might have actually tolerated her like I do most of the other scions. My head canon for my WoL is basically that the scions are fellow employees that he works with but wouldn't really hang out with any of them outside of work if he had the choice. Sadly, the story demands it at points. lol

[Kolsykol]

Nah, not really the case for me. Personally, I just think she's a boring character with almost no personality and terrible character development to boot. And by terrible character development I mean basically none at all. I don't really like Alisae but at least her character developed pretty well over time. I just don't like her, and no amount of character development will change that. I will admit, however, that Lyse was probably a victim of Stormblood's rushed writing. If things hadn't been so rushed, her character "development" might have been a bit more fleshed out and I might have actually tolerated her like I do most of the other scions. My head canon for my WoL is basically that the scions are fellow employees that he works with but wouldn't really hang out with any of them outside of work if he had the choice. Sadly, the story demands it at points. lol

The same can be said about other characters, but those characters don't receive the same level of hate.
Like I said tho I admit that I am biased in favor of her because I am a MNK main, I actually do agree with your criticism.
But I also think she's one of those cases where it sorta just became a thing to hate her, it's like this sometimes in other games too where characters basically end up being a bit of a scapegoat and gets a lot of hate even tho their issues aren't unique to them.

Edit: But hey maybe you'd agree that she should get more development in Endwalkers hehe?
I kinda wonder at this point tho I think if they did that a lot of people would just complain that they're spending too much time on her.
I am honestly expecting her to die in Endwalkers but I kinda hope they keep her around and actually do something with her character.

[Shibi]

1. Haurchefant - "やはり、おまえは・・・笑顔が・・・イイ"
2. Ysale - "Thank-you for showing me the way."
3. Yotsuyu - "You should feel honored, dear <spoilered>"

And Yotsuyu is where I am up to in the story, so I can't speak for Emet-Selch or others I have yet to meet.

[LaughingBanana]

Graha, Alisae, dan... Yugiri + Urianger in the same position.

I actually quite ambivalent/indifferent towards Alphinaud--I think he's just too stereotypically cliched.

[StormyFae]

Niddhogg
Zenos
Emet-selch
Id join them if it let me

[Laerune]

Best Boi is G'raha and best girl is Alisaie. I also like Zenos and Fandingo.