Quote Originally Posted by Kozh View Post
And it's also applied for opposite. There's only so many fake out death and plot armor to protect the protagonists before it gets tiring.

That aside... I actually can stand having the characters not dying, but what I can't stand is us, the WoL and the scions, to be always in the winning and righteous side, no matter what the situation was. We never been on the losing side, never been on the morally grey side, always been the bastion and pinnacle of morality, can come up with any solutions that doesn't require them to be the "villains". I wish for more uldah banquet type of situation, where we were on the defensive side. After HW, all we get at most is "being mildly inconvenient during the expansion and being victorious in the end anyway".
In regards to the Scions and where plot armor is concerned that's probably because there's still stories to be told concerning them as individuals later down the line. FF and JRPGs especially aren't particularly great when it comes to moral ambiguity on the 'whole', there are some exceptions but for the FF series in-particular, any moral greyness is usually on the part of the opposing side while the heroes are always morally righteous. I imagine it's even harder to create a storyline like that for FFXIV because they're limited by the medium of an MMORPG.

What I will say is that in regards to FFXIV, there's a lot of times when the pressure is on and our actions have world or country spanning consequences, which keeps things rather amusing. A big part of Endwalker was fighting against despair itself, rather than just pitting hero against villain. The mental scars will probably sting many of the Scions for quite a while, if not our own character.

Since the story is moving away from the Scions now, we might be introduced to a more motley crew of more morally nuanced characters but given what I said before, especially where Square Enix is concerned, I don't think we're going to get it but then again, I don't really think morality is one of the core themes they've been going with and the ending to Endwalker really hit that home.