Thread: Our passive characters and why the 2.55 story fails (BIG SPOILERS) (rant warning)

I do believe those scenes could have been handled better, but the only way I feel they could have been handled better is if the Warrior of Light was removed from the events of the banquet all together.

Supplant the WoL with Minfilia - the Ascendant is brought into speak with the Sultana and then the Sultana is poisoned. Now we have a pacifist in the position a Warrior of Light was. The cut-scenes play out the same.

The WoL is instead tasked with rescuing Alfy alongside Pipin, with WoL meeting Minfilia outside of the escape route, but she pulled back in via the Crystal's intervention.

This would do less injury to everyone's agency over the WoL, though have less of a personal impact on the WoL themselves, unless s/he experienced it during the Echo.

Originally Posted by Aeyis

Perhaps that's your problem: You are using child-level deductions.

Insults are the resort of a weak wit. Argue the points, not the people. You could have retorted that there shouldn't be the need for such deductions and that the story could have been crafted so that there was no need to justify WoL's actions. Though that may well be an impossibility when you want to clean the slate storyline wise.

Better question: How would you have done it?