Quote Originally Posted by KizuyaKatogami View Post
They were pretty prominent characters, considering they even got their own side story of the game about them i’d regard them as main characters. Shadow imo still counts as most people aren’t going to keep him alive unless they look it up. Reks is a pretty main character considering he’s the person that one of the main characters’ story revolves around. 13-2 was what i was getting at mainly. And off there’s 15, type 0 etc etc. Point is it’s almost a staple for their to be prominent consequences at the very least for the main party, and all of that was missing in Endwalker.
C'mon Reks? You're gonna split hairs like that? He's playable for the prologue, a tiny portion of the game. And you mention Reks and his effect but not Rasler? The only difference there in character motivation is one is playable and the other is not.

You can't really take 13-2 and what happens there if you don't also take LR and what happens there and all...that...gets sorted out in the end with the new world. I enjoyed 13-2 as a game but I try not to think about that whole narrative too much.

Plus people complain all the time about Haurchefant and how he wasn't important enough but he offered us friendship and sanctuary when the world turned against us. He was a huge part of our motivation, but I've definitely see people complain they didn't feel connected to him or he wasn't an important enough death. Or characters like Papalymo who was a main character but people don't think he was important enough when he was an actual Scion and VERY relevant to the story of anyone that started in Gridania.