Quote Originally Posted by MilkieTea View Post
Thancred
"I happen to be thoroughly enjoying the company of these ravishing young ladies and, gods willing, will still be doing so come sunrise."
"If I may, the lovely maiden beside me is named Y'shtola. Limsa Lominsa has the pleasure of being under her care."
"Ever at your service, fair lady!" (If you have a female avatar)

Each of these are some of the MANY lines he has in which he flirts with, hits on, or otherwise attempts to schmooze nearly every woman he encounters. He's an unrepentant flirt. Two of those lines are from the first meeting with the Scions of the Seventh Dawn. Pray tell me, would Y'shtola saying these lines give you the same result?

Y'shtola being smart, sassy and unnaturally good at aetheric manipulation is what saved her and Thancred's lives. How doesn't that show, when the only other character able to teleport freely is US? And that's something said within the main story. It nearly killed her. Thancred literally flirts with female player characters. Your being a female affects his basic interactions with you. They have impact - I think you're focusing so much on thinking they're not showing it to you, that you missed what they showed you.
I'll grant you, some of those lines do bring out Thancred's character. It's a shame that they are forgotten amidst the sea of exposition. Y'shtola being able to teleport freely doesn't mean too much when the player can do it freely and the significance of it is buried amidst (you guessed it) more exposition.