Quote Originally Posted by Kazhar View Post
My main issue with the Scions. They're just so homogenous, it doesn't make their friendship feel earned. They're just an echo chamber who agree on every single subject (which happens to be whatever the author at the time thinks is the correct moral answer), they never fight in meaningful ways, they almost all come from a single background. The one source of tension has been the same since HW: Urianger betrays them for the greater good. That's it.

There's more going on with Cloud and Barett at the beginning of OG FFVII (or Zidane and Steiner in IX, or Wakka and everyone in X) than the Scions for the entire duration of XIV.
I wouldn't say the entire duration of FF14, for there certainly was some level of animosity between Estinien and Alphinaud in HW, and Alisaie and Alphinaud in ARR (though that really was mostly Alphinaud back-handedly insulting his sister). But since the resolution of HW it seems like there is next to no drama between the Scions.

If it's because they have matured as individuals, that's fine but 7.0 should move on from the Scions in that case. G'raha Tia has largely resolved his character arc so I'm extremely skeptical he would be a compelling character in 7.0. Krile on the other hand I'm willing to wait and see. Nevertheless, if it's just the Scions all over again it'll make 7.0 probably the dullest story yet in terms of character development.