Who is your least favorite major character and why?

[ItMe]

Me.
The WoL.
I often feel like I am a spectator in others tales, and I am simply around so by the strength of my arm I can bring them success and they can move on to the next chapter in their story.
I have no agency.
I have little opportunity to show my personality.
I am here to facilitate the story.
And if

I am one of the ascians. That's cool because it means I'm not even me. I'm basically piloting an NPC.

[Lauront]

I agree, I find the MC one of the less satisfying characters in the game, with fairly bland or ill fitting options for responses I wouldn't use for my own type of characters I'd normally play in an rpg. Certainly after the revelations about their ancient past from SHB, I'd want them to ask many more questions and seek to learn of it. Maybe tempering factors in as I said earlier but it's not conclusive. I also find some of the lines available to them too cheesy.

[RitsukoSonoda]

Me.
The WoL.
I often feel like I am a spectator in others tales, and I am simply around so by the strength of my arm I can bring them success and they can move on to the next chapter in their story.
I have no agency.
I have little opportunity to show my personality.
I am here to facilitate the story.
And if

I am one of the ascians. That's cool because it means I'm not even me. I'm basically piloting an NPC.

You also forgot that they force us to be far to courteous to our enemies... Take Praetorium for example. We stand by and let ppl deliver long winded speeches before fighting them instead of just walking up and punching them in the face while they talk then just let them casually walk off during a fight to go get into a giant robot? >.>

[TTiscancer]

Me.
The WoL.
I often feel like I am a spectator in others tales, and I am simply around so by the strength of my arm I can bring them success and they can move on to the next chapter in their story.
I have no agency.
I have little opportunity to show my personality.
I am here to facilitate the story.
And if

I am one of the ascians. That's cool because it means I'm not even me. I'm basically piloting an NPC.

That has always been the FF way of storytelling, you're not playing from the characters POV. Think of it as an interactive book from a 3rd person perspective.

Outside of combat, you're not playing the WoL, from a story-telling perspective.

[Lauront]

You also forgot that they force us to be far to courteous to our enemies... Take Praetorium for example. We stand by and let ppl deliver long winded speeches before fighting them instead of just walking up and punching them in the face while they talk then just let them casually walk off during a fight to go get into a giant robot? >.>

Most of the big ones are too powerful for it to be that easy anyway and you'd learn little of their goals in so doing. At most it'd alter the cutscene sequence and little else. Gaius in particular can simply teleport...

[KizuyaKatogami]

That has always been the FF way of storytelling, you're not playing from the characters POV. Think of it as an interactive book from a 3rd person perspective.

Outside of combat, you're not playing the WoL, from a story-telling perspective.

Eh idk. A majority of ff games you are playing the pov of people. The problem with 14 is i just feel like a stand-in a majority of the time, with Alphinaud i guess being regarded as the mc. It doesn’t help though that it’s an mmo and our options are severely limited in what we can do, dialogue wise.

[TTiscancer]

Eh idk. A majority of ff games you are playing the pov of people. The problem with 14 is i just feel like a stand-in a majority of the time, with Alphinaud i guess being regarded as the mc. It doesn’t help though that it’s an mmo and our options are severely limited in what we can do, dialogue wise.

There's a difference between 1st person POV and 3rd person POV. In JRPGs it's usually 3rd person and you don't have a say in how your character behaves or who they are. To put in another way, you are following a character, not playing it outside of combat.

[Silvarer]

If you do the Sorrows of Werylt side quests you'll be able to see the backstory for the characters who are accompanying Gaius and their reasoning. Although I personally don't care for either of them still, they become more tolerable.

Ah okay, well that’s good to know that they’ll at least get something to introduce them eventually. I guess I probably haven’t gotten far enough in post-Shadowbringers to unlock that quest yet.

[RitsukoSonoda]

Most of the big ones are too powerful for it to be that easy anyway and you'd learn little of their goals in so doing. At most it'd alter the cutscene sequence and little else. Gaius in particular can simply teleport...

There's a number of cutscenes where our character literally just stands there and lets things happen instead of taking action or initiative that could have prevented the kupo nuts from hitting the fan.

[Theodric]

There's a number of cutscenes where our character literally just stands there and lets things happen instead of taking action or initiative that could have prevented the kupo nuts from hitting the fan.

Arguably, yes.

Though it's balanced out by the rather ridiculous plot armour that the player character and his allies are clad in at pretty much every turn. There's been many points in the story where it would make sense for an antagonist to just step forward, slit the throat of one of the Scions or the Warrior of Light himself and be done with it - but then there wouldn't be much of a story to be told.