What sort of character would you like to see added to the WoL’s party?

[Kansene]

Needless to say, this will contain some spoilers including up to recent EW MSQ:

I feel like I'll be parroting what a lot of people have already said, but basically:

- Someone with a hair color that isn't white/blonde/silver. I get that in anime hair color tropes corresponding to personality traits are a thing, but damn. If anything it speaks to how all of them have very similar personalities as well.

- Someone who shows personal motivations that don't necessarily align with the rest of the cast. Not necessarily to the point of fighting with other characters, but at least offering up alternative viewpoints and disagreeing with some of the takes of the others.

- Someone who actually dies instead of fake-dying if such a scenario ever shows up. Though this would admittedly make them fall into another trope that's become increasingly common; "Only villains and newly introduced characters are allowed to die because the scions and other prominent cast members are too marketable!"

- Someone who's a roe,hrothgar, or other race we've not seen a lot of in the main cast.

Follow-up wish:
I'd be 100% okay if they retconned the "fake disbanding" of the Scions and made it an actual disbanding, letting all of them take a big, humble step back and just stay as background characters for at least an expansion or two while a whole new cast of companions get to join in. I'm tired of the scions now, and no, Alisaie, smugly referencing how you think "heroic sacrifices are silly" does not make it funny or interesting when you follow through and do it right afterward. I felt ZERO tension when the scions started sacrificing themselves because I just know deep in my heart that who survives is a popularity contest, not what makes sense in the story.

[AwesomeJr44]

because I just know deep in my heart that who survives is a popularity contest, not what makes sense in the story.

*cough* *cough* Graha *cough* *cough* Ysh'tola *cough*

Are we talking about a permanent addition?
Gaius Van Baelsar.

Out of the currently existing characters, Gaius is probably the one I'd want the most. However, I think that if they were to do that, they should make the SHB weapon trials mandatory. I don't see that as a big ask either seeing as they already did that with CT for Graha.