Which characters are your favourite?

[Yamimarik]

dude she's a kid

Um... well aren't we a bag a fun huh?
First off, was all that really necessary?
1.)It's a fictional story and a video game.
2.)Alisaie and Alphinaud are both between the ages of 16-18 (of course Elezen's age differently in a way, and we've NEVER been given a "legal" age for Eorzea.) So they are not "kids" as you so quickly stated. Teenagers or young adults would most accurately describe them much better.
3.)Canonically it's been stated that Alisaie does have a bit of a crush on the Warrior of Light (whether you see it as romantically or just her idolizing you, that's up to you.)
4.)Alisaie and Alphinaud both are Top tier waifu and mid tier husbando for me!

Anyway, sorry for the off-topic rant. Which shouldn't have happened anyway...

To stay back on topic, I'll mention my honorable mentions!

• Oboro
• X'rhun Tia
• M'naago
• Tataru
• Urianger

[Lutefisk]

Major Characters
Tataru - She gives a face to the Scion grunts who labour in the background to make sure the entire organization keeps running while the ”important” bigwigs are trying make themselves look useful. I've always been more partial to the logistical side of adventuring in fantasy stories as opposed to the actual monster slaying and general heroism and Tataru really scratches that itch.

Regula - The one Garlean who actually put his money where his mouth was and paid the price dearly. May he skip many a soar in the great beyond.

The Warriors of Darkness - Fighting the good fight is hard and even harder when you realize that for all your trouble you only managed to make things worse than you could ever imagine them to be. The short little arc with the Warriors of Darkness struck a chord with how it examined the unspoken assumption that no matter what way the story spins, whatever the 'good guys' decide to do will ultimately result in some kind of net positive on a cosmic level. That's not how things really work and hopefully future plotlines won't forget it.

Minor Characters
Moglin - All around boss moogle and a nice portrayal of a leader figure who does a solid job at governing his domain but isn't above petty things like brushing his own screwups under the rug or meting out disproportionate retribution for minor personal offenses against him.

Quickthinx – Chosen of Alexander, trueseer of futuretimes and the most hilarious antagonist to date. Watching him do his thing with all the gravitas only a goblin hell-bent on world domination can have was a joy to behold.

Unukalhai - Out of all the Scions he feels like the only one who actually understands what kind of crap WoL has to go through. He's one of the guys crystal mom handpicked to save the day from Ascian machinations and like Arbert and his buddies he knows what it's like to utterly fail at it. And despite that he still keeps trucking on. Double agent working for Elidibus or no, I just want to give the kid a big hug.

Primals/Eikons
Fourfold master of the blade, Ravana - Mostly because unlike the other primals we've seen so far he's entirely original to XIV, something unique to this particular entry in the series. Pandering to nostalgia is fine and all, but that alone isn't going to make a story memorable. It's not the Bahamuts and Omegas that I'm going to remember when I'll be looking back to my tome grinding days, it's Ravana and all the other new things that took me by surprise. On top of that his insectoid aesthetic really stands out in a sea of fantasy monsters based on more traditionally badass mammalian, reptilian and avian animals.

Job/Class Trainers
Tristan - Not a job trainer but I guess he technically falls under this category. Zenos may have understood what being a superpowered murder machine is like, but Tristan was the guy who could understand why that first victory over Ifrit at level 20 felt like a failure. That shared experience of sorts made me care about him much like it made me care about Unukalhai to the point I remember him more fondly than some characters the writers have actively tried to make me care about even if he was an ass.

[Jyera]

Whoops, I ended up leaving this too long, so new comment. XD;

Major:

• Cid Garlond. He is honestly one of my favourite fictional characters, period, and in spite of how long I could fawn and ramble about him being #1 best husbando, I'll stick to the briefest version I can. I got attached to him during a bit of a low point in my IRL social life, where a lot of his character traits ended up being a huge reminder of what was important to me in real people. I also connected a lot with him in his story as a person suffering so badly from psychological trauma that it seemed to fundamentally alter him--and then grow into someone who restored their own personhood. I needed that; it was huge for me to see a narrative wherein someone not only wasn't permanently wrecked by their trauma, they grew into someone good and healthy and hopeful afterwards. His self-awareness and legitimate efforts at reform from his past as an instrument of violence, too--if our characters had met him as a teenager, for example, he'd probably have been a villain. Yet, in spite of the pressure of his upbringing and cultural pressure, he chose to walk a different path. He didn't start off billed as "good"; he had to choose to be, and he did. That's harder to do than it sounds. I'm honestly so grateful to the writers for Cid.
  
• 'Nael' van Darnus (Eula). 1.0 kind of grabs me by the heartstrings, basically. The very fact that the real Nael van Darnus is dead long before 1.0 even starts is intriguing enough; the reason there's a Nael running around in 1.0 is even more so, and I don't actually find the lorebook revelation to be a retcon in any way. JP dialogue from 1.0 and Coil was ambiguous and explicitly female, respectively, and while I concede it might not change the whole story, it's an important bit of background that personally made me feel the full weight of the meanings behind the Calamity and why Bahamut is what he is/was what he was. I used to feel a bit disappointed that the reason behind Eula's most extreme actions was "just" becoming tempered, until it struck me: Eula and Bahamut are in some ways kindred spirits. Both were products of the traitorous murders of loved ones; Eula lost Nael, and Tiamat and her progeny lost Bahamut, both cruelly betrayed by the self-interests of human beings. Bahamut in his primal Came Back Wrong state was a living (sort of) construct of tortured vengeance, and Eula chose to fashion her grief and despair into an utterly ruthless weapon of destruction. I've spent a lot of time wondering if the reason she particularly was tempered was that she already shared the belief with the long-suffering inhabitants of Dalamud that the world of mankind was no longer worth saving. She's also an interesting mirror for Ysayle, in a way--if Ysayle had continued down her path and ended up also choosing to go full-blown terrorist, she and Eula would be kin in some manner of speaking. Obviously, sympathy for Eula has to come to a halt at approximately the point she begins toiling for the complete annihilation of hundreds of thousands of innocent lives, but I still find her compelling under the helmet.
  
• Ysayle. She's a fascinating counterpoint to the WoL in that she, too, is the bearer of a Crystal of Light--but her choices lead her initially to do radically different things with her gift. Yet in spite of being an unambiguously dangerous antagonist until a little ways in to the Heavensward story, it's hard to argue that her goals were in the wrong place. She really did want to put an end to the slaughter and find peace, but her movement was going down a dark path. It's telling of her character that she decided to lay it all aside to become one of our closest allies, and I still miss her greatly.

Minor:

• Regula van Hydrus. I can’t in good conscience separate him from the values of the system he was devoted to, but I really took a punch to the heart when we got to see him be something other than impeccably tea-sipping Orson Wells-voiced swordsman. Apart from becoming a reminder to the main cast that while Garlemald’s actions have been evil, they have still been conducted by human beings. What I was most impressed by is that when things became urgent on the Flagship, when we pushed him on Ysayle’s death, he conceded that he wasn’t willing to defend her killing. I still have lingering doubts that he would have leapt in front of Zurvan to save Unukalhai if Unukalhai hadn’t had the Echo, but his actions spoke for him in the end anyway, so maybe he would have. He was principled (cognitively dissonant though those principles might be), honourable, and selfless, and I miss him dearly.
  
• Nero tol Scaeva. Is it actually fair to put him under 'minor'? XD; I have doubts... Anyway, Nero has some of my absolute favorite character growth in the whole game. He’s literally one of our villains in 2.0, where we find out that unbeknownst to Cid, he felt slighted, ignored, and deprived of actualisation. Then the bastard turns back up in 2.x to annoy us all the way through Crystal Tower—which serves him a pretty hefty dose of humble pie. He breaks his cookie-cutter jealous-antagonist mold for good by the end of the CT arc, becoming more interested in cultivating himself irrespective of Cid’s career. When he showed up again at the end of 3.4, I howled—did the dork not learn a thing? XD But he turns out to be kind of a good guy underneath the unbearable smugness, goading of Cid’s discomfort, and the twitchy remains of a lifelong inferiority complex. It’s been great fun having him in Omega, and even though I’m still pissed at him for a specific poorly-expressed jab he made at Cid’s expense, I actually have a lot of hope for him as a character. It’s tough to do what he’s doing—even if it probably is the case that it’s at least half just for himself.

Primals:

• Susanoo. This guy is SO FUN. As primals go, he really doesn’t seem all that interested in hurting anyone—he’s just here to party, as far as he’s concerned. He even giggles good-naturedly the whole time you’re fighting him. It was kind of an ‘aww darn it’ moment when we had to put him out of commission; I’d go to a barbecue or a road trip with the dude. Best friends forever (free!).
  
• Bahamut. How can you not, really. He’s one of humanity’s most horrifying mistakes—a godlike, initially probably not that ill-meaning dragon, that through the exploited grief of his lover was Frankenstein’d together out of countless tortured pieces of living things and given primal energy. Then when the obvious catastrophic circumstances of bringing him about were made acutely clear, the Allagans snared him, boxed him up with live, tortured, intelligent creatures, and sent him into space. Summoners meditate on him when reaching the extremes of our potential as channelers. He’s the ultimate symbol of tragedy hanging over Eorzea. Eikonic, if you’ll forgive the pun.

Job Trainers:

• Y'mihtra. Y’shtola’s sweet and cheerful scholarly relative—and an archaeologist. She’s so cool, and we learn all about the lost art and meditations of Allagan summoning before the days of aetherochemical abominations.

[Ramesses]

Major characters, my favourite top ten in descending order:

• Louisoix continues to top my list and I'm alarmed that he's not on more people's list. The Sensei sacrificed everything to give us 2.0 and onwards. He's epic on a legendary level.
• Hauchefaut - enough said
• Aymeric
• Merlwyb
• Alphy
• Estinien
• E-Sum-Yan - First ever Gridanian NPC I met in 1.0
• Y'shtola - She's actually the first Scion you meet (in the 1.0 promotional trailers of 2009)
• Hein
• Godbert - Possibly the final boss of FFXIV, who knows these things?

Major Characters on the Imperial or Garlean side:

• Gaius
• Nael
• Cid
• Zenos
• Drest (not really Garlean but I really wish there was more on his story)

Other NPCs who deserve honorable mentions:

• Raubhan
• Matoya
• Nero

Primals/Eikons:
Phoenix

Job/Class Trainers:

• Jacke
• Myllia and Aldis
• Oboro and Karasu

[SinSiew79]

Aymeric <3<3<3

[Miyha]

Aymeric <3<3<3

Strangely appropriate that an Aymeric fangirl(fanboy?) would necro with this.

ANYHWHO...

Massive 4.3 Spoiler

Gaius is new bae.

[SinSiew79]

Ill reply to that when you tell me first; was it worth you appearing, if not rude then certainly pointlessly snide with that image since you felt the need to post that. I have never seen this thread before, like alot of topics in this forum, so what if they are old, does that mean im not permitted to comment on a topic that catches my eye?

(funny how *i'm* the one getting tagged as an aymeric -fangirl when *your* the one with him dancing in your sig image)

[Mixt]

Vidofnir.

Dragon waifu is best waifu.

[CainCrimson]

Mylla

[shoobiedoobie]

Hot chicks. All of them.

Minfilia
Lyse
Y'shtola
Hilda
Mylla
etc, etc, etc

I also have a soft spot for nearly everyone in those early adventurer parties you run across as you're running the first 3 dungeons. Except Avere. Didn't think much of him.