Quote Originally Posted by Theodric View Post
I don't put much weight on whether a character is on a promotional poster or not and instead focus on their contributions to the story. There's plenty of movies with posters proudly displaying actors front and centre who end up having very minor roles. I consider the cast as a whole when I play a game - not just whoever is in the 'main party'.
Actors who have contractual obligations and are promoted due to their big names to draw interest are completely different from CGI/drawn people who no one knew about before the media they were invented for became a thing. They may be main characters to you, but they're not main characters to the people who made them, apparently.

Emet-Selch and Venat are both popular characters who have been recently offed due to the needs of the story. The Scions' continued existence means that Yoshi-P obviously has more he wants to do with them and isn't necessarily due to any fear of killing characters. If he wanted to kill them, he has had many chances but at this point they're probably here to stay whether or not people grumble.