Can we please have at least 1 female Au Ra to accompany the WoL on their adventures?

[Yukimin]

Doesn't that mean that instead of choosing aura girls they should instead give hrothgar's and roegadyn's more time to shine?

Nah. I don't think so.

[Tehmon]

They're never going to have every race represented in the WoL's major companions all at once, and we have had a reasonable number of female Au Ra supporting characters. Yugiri, Cirina, Sadu, Mide, Mikoto, probably her twin sister turning up somewhere.

Also Allie, whom we'll be getting more of in 6.4.

[Tehmon]

Nah. I don't think so.

Okay then I hope there will never be a prominent female aura character ever again.

[Fourbestintoner]

Yugiri isn't coming back because her VA was murdered. she was retired after Stormblood because of it.

Her 2minute HW va did, and who cares about english vas?

[Yukimin]

They're never going to have every race represented in the WoL's major companions all at once, and we have had a reasonable number of female Au Ra supporting characters. Yugiri, Cirina, Sadu, Mide, Mikoto, probably her twin sister turning up somewhere.

Then unfortunately I'm pretty sure the story, at least characters will be just like a 7 year old stale bread with the same faces, the same platitudes about friendship and the same predictable dialogues.

Yugiri isn't coming back because her VA was murdered. she was retired after Stormblood because of it.

I genuinely don't see the issue with this. And I'm not even trying to be cold and heartless, why not just hire a new VA? I genuinely really like Yugiri and wouldn't mind seeing more of her.

[Avoidy]

I don't really get this. Is it that the characters have been shown to be more than just the single detail that was cool? I enjoyed both Estinien and Graha before they got more fleshed out and enjoy them both more now that I have a better idea of who they are underneath all the edgyness.

It's just a difference in opinion then. Personally, I enjoyed them less once I learned more about them, and feel like they're just boring comic relief at this point, while before they felt like they had depth. Becoming a scion gives a character the chance to overstay his welcome imo. This has more to do with the writers being afraid to let "finished" characters go though, which is probably a topic for a different thread. More power to you if you enjoy a happier Graha though. I get it. I just don't, personally.

To be honest at this point I just want new, grounded and relatable characters like Ardbert's companions. Don't get me wrong, I'm just tired of seeing the same faces all over and I can already predict what they'll say. The proposed new Au Ra NPC doesn't even need to be Yugiri, I'd rather have someone new really. Preferably Au Ra, Roe, Viera maybe a Highlander. And it doesn't help that practically every single Scion character already concluded their stories and Square Enix has no balls to threaten their lives or make them suffer.

I've been wishing for another shb-tier isekai arc just to get away from everything and start fresh for almost this exact reason. I'd be thrilled at just, a new squad. But way too many people love the old squad, so that's probably what we'll get to keep for the next decade.

It's not as if Yugiri has much of a personality other than 'honour and duty', so I can't see how they could make her worse.

Yeah she was kind of forgettable to me too. I honestly couldn't tell you much about her. She just came to mind first for some reason.

[Xirean]

It's just a difference in opinion then. Personally, I enjoyed them less once I learned more about them, and feel like they're just boring comic relief at this point, while before they felt like they had depth. Becoming a scion gives a character the chance to overstay his welcome imo.

I can definitely understand not liking a character, but doesn't depth imply something beneath what you can see? That being their actual personality when they aren't in constant war mode?

[Mosha]

Her 2minute HW va did, and who cares about english vas?

I genuinely don't see the issue with this. And I'm not even trying to be cold and heartless, why not just hire a new VA? I genuinely really like Yugiri and wouldn't mind seeing more of her.

I would imagine it's out of respect, I believe it happened during SBs production so after that they started to draw down her role. If recall her HW VA was meant to do SB but obviously that happened and so they hired a replacement VA to finish production. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong, I haven't looked at the details in years.

[Fourbestintoner]

No it happened at the beginning of HW and she was immediately replaced for the rest of HW and SB.

[Bunnycake]

Also Allie, whom we'll be getting more of in 6.4.

Wait, what? Did I missed something from MSQ? I didn't see her at all after ShB.