Quote Originally Posted by TinyRedLeaf View Post
was very much startled by the hostile response that so many players had towards her
I think for some it was just asking too much too quickly. Yda was a ditz; she was the brawn to Papalymo's brains. Together they made one actual, functional Archon, more or less. But they were also two of the oldest Scions and Yda hadn't had much character development in 20 years; so they put her to rest, preserved her legacy, and retconned in this young firebrand (an arguably more versatile, relevant character) to take that passion to the Empire for better or worse, stumbling along the way. And then suddenly the character we knew for "NANA, IS THAT YOU?" is leader of the Ala Mhigan Resistance?

That's where I differ with the people who find it hard to accept. But I also differ from people who accept it too easily.

It's going to take more than persistence and the right dad to make an actual leader out of her. She's not there yet, imho. The Resistance had spent twenty years being whittled down, fractured, broken, and killed off. Conrad saw in Lyse a sort of reset button; if the Scions and the Alliance were willing to be brought to action, if the Resistance might see a surge of new recruits, they needed someone symbolic; someone who could sympathize with many different plights in the world and not lose hope. People are coming from all over to join Ala Mhigo, and they need something more than battered loyalists who haven't left the Fringes or stopped fighting Garleans for longer than they can remember.

Yet she's growing right alongside them. She literally just decided who she was and has little experience in the role shes in, but all of Ala Mhigo is about to lose the one thing they had in common: the desire to see it liberated. I think things about to get tense fast, and I don't think she's ready to deal with it. Perhaps that's what will mold her into a TRUE leader, or perhaps that's what convinces her to come back to the Scions, instead.

But for her to just suddenly decide who she wants to be and just as suddenly have those skills right when that's needed most? Awfully convenient for someone we knew a few patches ago as the most clueless person in the room during Minfilia's powerpoint presentations.

At the very least, though, this makes it a lot easier to defend why Conrad suddenly chose her to those for whom it wasn't clear.