Building a better Alphinaud

[TaleraRistain]

You do realize that characters like Fordola are a decently popular request to join the main party, right? There are easily more fans of hers than of the twins anyway. I can only wonder why.

Source? Not that I don't think Fordola has fans. As I mentioned, I'm personally quite happy to see more of her. And where she is after the healer role quest is where I think she would finally be able to travel with us. Even without the necklace, she would not have been in the right place as a character to join us on our world-saving adventures before the latest story threads. The WoL usually sees eye to eye with the Scions but there's not a single indication we wouldn't tear off on our own if it was something we felt we had to get done. So if she wasn't in a place where she agreed, we would just leave her behind anyway.

And every good DM knows, you don't want to split the party all the time.

[Brinne]

Source? Not that I don't think Fordola has fans. As I mentioned, I'm personally quite happy to see more of her. And where she is after the healer role quest is where I think she would finally be able to travel with us. Even without the necklace, she would not have been in the right place as a character to join us on our world-saving adventures before the latest story threads. The WoL usually sees eye to eye with the Scions but there's not a single indication we wouldn't tear off on our own if it was something we felt we had to get done. So if she wasn't in a place where she agreed, we would just leave her behind anyway.

And every good DM knows, you don't want to split the party all the time.

As a huge Fordola fan and someone who would love for her to join the party, the idea that she has more fans than the twins doesn't even qualify as a stretch. We're pretty rare birds, as far as I can tell, actually. (For what it's worth, I do also really like the twins.)

EDIT: The huge NHK Final Fantasy favorites poll from a couple of years ago (during the Shadowbringers era), of course, isn't absolute, but I do think it's useful as a general metric for these things. As I've cited for other characters, Minfilia managed to make the (low) rankings. Fordola did not. It's okay, I still love her and get excited every time she gets a droplet of new content!