friendships :)

[aveyond-dreams]

Hiya again!
Have you ever thought of who your character is friends with? What friendships have they formed over time?
Or maybe you could talk about the friendships you have formed in game with your experiences, if you don't mind. Being that this is a social game, there are bound to be friendly interactions and later to be friendships even!

To start a small few facts:
Rhel'a has made many friends. He is close with many Vath and Vanu Vanu with some positive interactions with the moogles. He also has his friendships with adventurers (mostly ocs of mine). Though, unsure how close he is with the scions! He does have some association with them, however.

My main WoL would have likely been on good terms with Gaius, Jullus, Emet-Selch, etc. The unifying characteristic is that these characters are largely not two-faced or hypocritical the way the Scions are. I do not consider the latter friendly. G'raha Tia is obsessive and just makes me uncomfortable whenever he comes on screen while the others have no distinguishable personality anymore including Estinien. I would have liked to have enjoyed Zero, but her being brainwashed by the Scions has made her thoroughly detestable as well.

Now all that's left to look forward to is her eventual transformation into a Paladin and Sharlayan's regime change enforcement unit being sent off to the New World with Krile and Erenville in tow, neither of which have any unique qualities either...while the other characters I had liked have been entirely done away with or forced into irrelevancy. My only hope of seeing Gaius again is if they dress him up in the Easter chicken suit again because I refuse to play through the hilariously forceful Tataru quest they wrote for him and Sorrow of Werlyt.

If I'm ever to have "friends" in this game they would have to go significant lengths to truly diversify the cast in both appearance and ideology - but with a playerbase so resistant to change like that unless given official sanction which I doubt will ever come at this point there doesn't seem to be much hope for that.

[Local_Custard]

My main WoL would have likely been on good terms with Gaius, Jullus, Emet-Selch, etc. The unifying characteristic is that these characters are largely not two-faced or hypocritical the way the Scions are. I do not consider the latter friendly. G'raha Tia is obsessive and just makes me uncomfortable whenever he comes on screen while the others have no distinguishable personality anymore including Estinien. I would have liked to have enjoyed Zero, but her being brainwashed by the Scions has made her thoroughly detestable as well.

Now all that's left to look forward to is her eventual transformation into a Paladin and Sharlayan's regime change enforcement unit being sent off to the New World with Krile and Erenville in tow, neither of which have any unique qualities either...while the other characters I had liked have been entirely done away with or forced into irrelevancy. My only hope of seeing Gaius again is if they dress him up in the Easter chicken suit again because I refuse to play through the hilariously forceful Tataru quest they wrote for him and Sorrow of Werlyt.

If I'm ever to have "friends" in this game they would have to go significant lengths to truly diversify the cast in both appearance and ideology - but with a playerbase so resistant to change like that unless given official sanction which I doubt will ever come at this point there doesn't seem to be much hope for that.

I'm sorry you don't enjoy the scions! /genuine
What is your favorite line from the characters you listed liking? Seems you enjoy gritty characters so it is nice you have options ^^
I don't think I've seen Gaius in the chicken suit before, does that happen anywhere? What is the context behind it?