Dawntrail’s Narrative Missteps: Why Natsuko Ishikawa’s Touch Is Sorely Missed

[Hallarem]

We went from being the Warrior of Light to the Warrior who likes to watch in many of the cut scenes. Hell, in one of them what's his face even acknowledges that we are a walking nodding force of nature. And if our presence was meant to be as some kind of mentor for Wuk, then that was garbled in the story line of her own "personal growth".

That said, the WoL at this point is a force of devastation. That kind of note could've or still could be used as a driving plot point that turns the WoL's immense power against them. How would the common everyday person behave knowing that you're capable of dps-checking their face in effortlessly and might want to have you locked away for others' safety? That you're not just one bad day away from leveling a town or a village on a whim? Or a character that would use your eager "I'm doing what's right and helping others out" attitude for their own ends and leaving you with the consequences to either try and fix it or leave it. In some ways we've already had that; but now that so far it appears that nothing could stop us if they tried to, who with malicious intent wouldn't be trying to use that for their own gain?

Please, let's stop with the "WoL is a nuke" narrative already. A black mage could nuke a city with a giant meteor, the world is filled with people who could be a threat to the WoL. Hell, we got floored by a drugged drink. Sure, we are powerful, but that doesn't mean that an actually skilled party of aether users couldn't take the WoL down or a very powerful monster. Any powerful aether user could "take down a village or a town on a whim". Hold someone hostage, use political leverage to get to the WoL.
BUT I do agree that making use of the angle of the WoL being a threath somehow or even the Scions combined meddling with politics in the world being a threath could be used as a story point. Like they awkwardly tried to do when the scions "Disbanded" but who are they kidding, stop with the pretending, everyone likes you and knows you. Why do you even need to hide? They kinda wrote themselves into a corner and tried to somehow do an edgy "oh... the world balance would shift if we did things in the open" pffft please.

The reason why nothing can stop us because we are the main character and we are by design meant to win everything. Not because we are superman/woman. But even then, we HAVE failed before, when we were forced to flee Ul'dah because of political implications. (Where has that writing gone?).

There's many lifelines our fights had, because we had:

- Help
- A party of adventurers
- The blessing to stop us from being tempered
- A power up like Hraesvaelgars eye
- Obvious main character powers
- A rejoining of souls
- A stupid dynamis blessing (Lets please cast dynamis into the abyss already, its a horrible writers crutch because they cant be bothered to use their own magic system or learn their own lore about aether.)


(And sorry if this comes off as somehow combative, but I am really sick of the "The WoL is a superweapon that cannot be beat ever and is like Goku" argument. That aint it.)