Quote Originally Posted by Raven2014 View Post
Most people don't have problem with him as a story character, and not like we can't empathy with his position. Unless you somehow missed what most people have been saying, the problem is his presentation. And Urianger is a far more enigmatic character until his mask finally come down in ShB. And I think his popularity proved that the community has no problem with subtle character as long as their presentation don't suck.
Urianger was enigmatic, but JUST enigmatic. His presentation was never particularly subtle in what it revealed. There is dubiousness, there is mystery, and then there is subtlety. Ranjit's backstory was presented subtly, in ways that intentionally are not just a convinient flashback #84 or some third party just telling us his trauma. Its still not REALLY subtle, but compared to other stories in ff14 it is, and I liked Ranjit. But people are too upset because echo and blessing of light dont matter when facing an opponent with extreme martial skill and so they hate both Zenos and Ranjit. And yes, Our godslaying skills are irrelevant because the only thing stopping quite many people in the world from being as high in godslayer rankings is us is lack of protection from Tempering, not the lack of skill in combat.