How would you like the Scions to be used after 6.0? [EW spoilers]

[KizuyaKatogami]

Used to fill up some graves preferably.

[Theodric]

I'd the game to go in a similar direction to the Ys games. Where each expansion is a new adventure with a new set of companions with some neat cameos here and there.

We've had roughly a decade with many of the Scions and I think it's time we got a new, more intriguing cast of characters at our side. I'd particularly enjoy more characters with their own agendas in play.

Now that the war with Garlemald is over with, there's ample room for a Pureblood Garlean with a healthy combination of honour and grit to join the main cast. Jullus would potentially be a good candidate. Other than that, I'd very much like to see a male Raen or Xaela join one of our adventures.

[Jandor]

I actually quite like Thancred and Urianger. Contrary to much of this thread so far it seems, I'm not such a big fan of Alisaie.

Might just be to the old man in me, but if we're to keep any of the main cast around for 6.1 onwards I'd prefer to Thancred, Urianger and Y'shtola. They seem like the more mature ones, and also the ones who could do with some new stories to be fair.

He's not a scion, but Jullus is a good shout as well. A Garlean "scion" type character has a lot of potential.

Used to fill up some graves preferably.

How incredibly edgy.

[KizuyaKatogami]

How incredibly edgy.

And? Is there a problem with that? I think we’re due a character death. Would be nice to see one of the cardboard cutouts used for some tear jerking.

[Kordarion]

I'd prefer they still use the scions but have them take a more backseat role. As has been mentioned split up our interactions with them in the 6.X patches so we can also interact with a number of new characters as we do so. Then in 7.0 have them still apart of the story and trust system but regularly intersperse them with new characters (either from the 6.X patches or from 7.0 itself.) I do hope they do more with Y'shtola though, because the only real character development she got in Endwalker was an entirely optional cutscene you could view when choosing who visits your room after returning from the moon. Not to mention most of her Shadowbringers character growth happened off screen meaning she last got any real development in Stormblood.

Other than that I do agree we'll probably still see a lot of G'raha and the twins because of the million and one Corvos hints and the twins trying to help out in garlemard respectively, both of which are big things I can't see them glossing over. Also yes I would very much be interested in seeing more of Jullus, I quite enjoyed his character arc in Endwalker.

[Kordarion]

How incredibly edgy.

Don't worry about them, if you read their response it quite clearly comes across as bait.

[KizuyaKatogami]

Don't worry about them, if you read their response it quite clearly comes across as bait.

Ah yes. Marking off someone else’s opinion as bait just because you don’t agree with it. Very professional…

[Cleretic]

I want us to pickup after some time has passed on their end. Let them progress in some way, and give us a window into that.

Like, we don't need to be there for every step of Y'shtola's journey in finding paths to other shards, but see her a couple patches from now after she's made some real progress. We don't need to see every detail of Estinien's work for Vrtra, but let's meet him partway through it.

I think that a lot of the actual complaints behind assertions of 'they're cardboard cutouts' is because they don't do a whole lot for us to attribute to them; kind of a consequence of the game ultimately being about a single player character's journey is that nobody else really gets to do anything. It's like how everyone that isn't Link in a Legend of Zelda game is ultimately a passive onlooker, because if they weren't we'd be annoyed that Link didn't get to do that stuff.

So yeah, give them some off-screen accomplishments and progression. Let's learn that Alphinaud and Alisaie actually did something rather than be there to do it ourselves.

[myahele]

I would like the lesser Scions to have a small role instead of just being in the background. I'd like to see less of the main Scions from now on. Let them do their own thing and make cameos when necessary.

[Kordarion]

Ah yes. Marking off someone else’s opinion as bait just because you don’t agree with it. Very professional…

Using your own words:

Would be nice to see one of the cardboard cutouts used for some tear jerking.

Used to fill up some graves preferably.

That doesn't seem to me like much more than lets insult some characters to rile up the people who like said characters. If you had come out and said something about how some characters deaths would provide more meaning to the story or provide an interesting way of exploring the other characters more through their grief I wouldn't have responded. But instead you make two blatantly provocative statements without providing any context.

Seems like a classic bait, of which yes I am falling for probably but *shrugs*.