Quote Originally Posted by dinnertime View Post
Just because our character is powerful doesn't necessarily mean that we don't need any help either, just sayin'.

Fight 5 of the Warriors of Darkness? Good luck doing that alone without your adventurer friends you queue with for duties.

And yes, our character doesn't do much in cutscenes but I believe it's a simple solution. To how every individual player would want their character to react to things, they instead made the character not show much at all.
Giving the character choices how to react is another, but it'll be an illusion of choice anyway, done simply for "immersion".
There's a vast difference in needing help from our friends, and doing nothing at all. So 5 Warriors of Darkness attack us and Y'shtola is the ONLY one who can react fast enough? No, not us right? Not the Warrior of Light who can sense danger and has culled ferocious primals all on our own according to the story. Both Thancred AND Y'shtola react before the WoL does anything. That's very inconsistent with what the story is making us out to be.

I know that Square doesn't want to step on toes when it comes to headcanon for each person's individual character, but the overt amount of "nothing" our character does begins to do just that. That sort of aloof, spaciness becomes a unwanted characteristic of our character that violates the canon the game has set for us. Even players with headcanon have to allow inconsistencies to their ideas to conform to the plot of the game, so honestly why would this be any different?