Quote Originally Posted by Hallarem View Post
Despite her weird power ups and feats (lets not talk about Dynamis, it's a dumb concept and should be dead and buried)

I find it borderline impossible for Wuk Lamat to have lived in a culturally diverse city like that and not having any idea how the cultures in Tural are. It's clear "Lets insert a "flaw" here so we can have a journey in the MSQ for her" while it makes logically no sense. These writers are horrible.
It makes sense, because while Tuliyollal itself is culturally diverse, only certain segments of each individual culture that comprises it actually moved to the capital. It's perhaps best represented with the Mamool Ja, where it was specifically the more "liberal" members of its society that went to Tuliyollal while the "conservative" side stayed in Mamook. If you only had the chance to talk to hippies from the 1960's, would that give you an accurate representation of the entirety of American culture? (Or replace hippies with any one particular group - farmers, Floridians, the West Coast, etc..) Heck, even if you surveyed just general Americans in a metropolitan area, how many would have deep knowledge of American history? I find it very logical that Wuk Lumat could end up actually knowing very little about the cultures in Tural by only interacting with those who specifically came to Tuliyollal.

- There's not once a doubt that Wuk Lamat becomes Dawnservant, making the first half feel rather predictable and boring
This is true in any FF game. Did people playing FFVI ever think the party wouldn't actually get back together and defeat Kefka after he unleashed the statues? Did people playing FFX ever think the party wouldn't eventually defeat Sin? I could go on and on there.

- no, we are not a mentor and no, Wuk Lamat does not have any notable character development because she wasn't allowed to have true flaws in the first place (the flaws that she has are not intentional)
Yes, we are a mentor, and Wuk Lumat goes from believing the empathy she has is worthless to realizing it's a key part of what makes her father a good ruler (among many other things). She is definitely intentionally flawed. You not liking it doesn't make it any less factual.

watching Gulool Ja Ja die after Zoraal Ja gets resurrected (no the honor argument doesn't count)
Aside from the logical fallacy of "just ignore anything that refutes my argument", the other key piece is us at that point not knowing anything about what Zoraal Ja's power can do. We do know that he just mincemeat out of someone who had just beaten him and who had fought both us and Estinien to a draw. Aside from the shock of the moment, we have no clue how powerful he really might be at that moment.

Her basically non-reaction to learning who her real father is doesn't get talked about enough. That could have been a huge emotional character building moment. Instead she stares blankly and is immediately ready to move on to the next problem to defeat with peace and happiness.
Which is a very real potential reaction. Some people who are adopted are very interested in learning about their birth parents and would be deeply moved. Others feel no real connection to them at all and don't really react if they ever "find out" who their birth parents are. I'm really not sure in this case how that could have "built" any of WL's character.

I didn't bother addressing the rest because they amount to no more than pure personal opinions.