Quote Originally Posted by RiceisNice View Post
That's sort of the thing, even if you are the one that dealt the finishing blow on Lahabrea or the likes (solidifying that you are the warrior of the light), every other circumstance behind it (such as praetorium in general) is done with a band of people. The player character isn't doing the entirety of the encounters by themselves, but were involved, if not the most prominent figure during those encounters. It calls onto the question on just how powerful the player characters are by themselves, because at times while you are clearly leading the charge, and if not being the only one involved in some encounters, the background behind it is that you had still gathered a group of people together to accomplish such tasks.

We could ignore the handweaves at times where the story and npcs refer to you gathering a band of people together, but it still becomes a reoccuring inconsitency to the story. My point is that our player characters isn't straight up soloing everything, but are infact still can be the individual that is referred to as the warrior of light, they're not exclusive from each other. My point is also that there can be multiple people who possess the echo as well as people who are blessed/chosen by Hyadelyn, not just the player character.
You're trying to use a few off-hand small cutscenes to rationalize this theory, all of which are always tacked on at the end to usher the player on to finish the content, and yet in any cutscene where these events take place it is only ever our character that is scene in them. Whenever there's a integral cut scene with voice-acting, and true story progression our character is only ever the sole protagonist. Take for instance, "Stone Vigil" where Cid's ship was last seen, and we enter to with a small party to navigate through it, if the story truly wanted to acknowledge their presence why weren't they in the cutscene when Cid, and Alph approach the dragon, or when we encounter the Ascian? How come we escape on the Enterprise with JUST the 3 of us, and none of the previous party members?

I'll tell you again, it's called "Game mechanics." In every game, it's up to the player when to interpret whether or not game mechanics are canon. In Final Fantasy, Game mechanics are hardly ever canonical, especially when they're inconsistent with the main plot of the game. In which here they are. So you decide, which canon are you going to readily accept. the main plot which clearly states that we are the lone adventurer slaying these beasts, or the game mechanic that's directing the "player" to find a party? It's as if someone was to suggest that health bars, and the ui actually DO exist in the real world of Final Fantasy just because we see it on our screen. Honestly, it's a bit of common sense.

And lastly, Alphs sort of confirms that we are the sole warrior of light capable of these feats during the conclusion of our encounter with the derplander. He claims that he was unaware that anyone besides us were capable of taking on primals, and it would have been terrible negligence on their part had they never even heard of them. This sort of puts the nail in the coffin on this subject.