Can we have an honest conversation about the Scions? Dawn Trail

[Somnolence]

mysterious new characters we will meet along the way

Given reaction to Zero its good this is not the direction they are going

[Colt47]

Given reaction to Zero its good this is not the direction they are going

Zero was an example of a rushed character that had their entire backstory compressed into a few short cutscenes coupled with amnesia. No one is going to fall in love with that kind of character.

The best character build up is just having us meet characters that are going about their lives and aren't anyone special right away. Kind of like the adventuring team that broke up as we went through ARR and eventually Edda going crazy over her mistakes she made.

[Troxbark]

Given reaction to Zero its good this is not the direction they are going

Zero was simply a bad character. A a stick in the mud, with a plot ability.

SE can do better than that.

[Katish]

Zero was simply a bad character. A a stick in the mud, with a plot ability.

SE can do better than that.

She was not noteworthy because of so, she was made to move the basis of a story that they left on hiatus that apparently has no relation with the main plot (the thirteenth) [at least not at the time I am writing this]. Rather than being, they made a reason for the thirteenth to be redeemed in her. Not that that's a bad thing (that can be a good thing), but they made her in the image of the Scions, a device to stir the plot, a problem child if you will (you get what you expect). No plot twist...lots of rising action with no exceptional climax. In that briefness that was her story, they could have fleshed her out making her act independently from us, especially given the story to begin with (trying to write as spoiler-free as possibly), then having us see her thoughts behind the scenes, again no, she tags along contributing to "How much can we fit this character in the story". I mean, I understand people like that storytelling, but it's reused too much at this point (Even the original FF4 has more of a wow factor, even though it does come out of nowhere).

Note: She's not bad but she's not great, she falls under the same level of how I feel about the Scions because I can see the same light they use for them being used for her as well, a shame really. The story imo needs a spicy villain character, one that you don't expect to be a villain because they've been with us for so long but have been doing their own thing based on how they feel personally. I think that would make for a great story and a great character because that character would no longer be flat and would no longer be acting as a problem child solely because they are the problem.