Who is your least favorite major character and why?

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If I had to wager a guess, it's the widely-held perception that Y'da is fits the 'dumb blonde' stereotype. Which is a shame, considering the fact that a) she seems very intelligent, and - more importantly b) she's one of the few Scions who seems possess significant character flaws, or to be capable of independent thought. When Lyse needed to leave the order, she left - she didn't waffle; she didn't become a third wheel. She decided that there was a more important calling, and she quit. And I have to admire that, because most of the rest of the gang just seems to be an eternal clinger to the WoL's coattails, with zero independent interests or attachments of their own.

I think the problem most people find with Lyse (myself included), is that they could have cut out the part where she reveals she's Lyse entirely and just kept her as Yda and nothing would change. The reveal that she was masquerading around as her deceased older sister was completely irrelevant to anything at all and they could have kept her same struggling with trying to find who she was without having the emotional support of Papalymo around to guide her to fulfilling her true calling. And they fumbled really badly with having Lyse enter a leadership role and some parts of her development was completely skipped over and rushed, and it didn't help whatsoever that Alisae also had too similar of personality traits to Lyse that it inevitably caused Lyse to be just pointless and overly childish. I would have liked her a lot more if they showed how much more she was struggling with her grief over losing Papalymo, and how she could move forward without him around with her and learn to stand on her own two feet, to show how competent and intelligent she really was and not having her lose her temper; they even could have shown the struggle of her trying to learn how to not act rashly on emotion throughout the journey.

All these different things could have made Lyse a great character. She had potential, and she had flaws. The problem was they didn't explore these flaws enough, which made her feel more and more like a child that the WoL needs to keep on a leash so she doesn't run off and do something stupid. She was annoying and showed very little of the important development she needed. It is a fault of Stormblood's awful pacing too that butchered her much needed character development, but Lyse is arguably a wasted character that had potential but they failed with executing it.