An NPC you truly hate with passion

[Berteaux_Braumegain]

I can't think of too many characters I dislike outright. Maybe the racist Elezen from the Archer questline, who we're supposed to like despite him being a total asshole.

Not a fan of how some characters (Gaius, Yotsuyu, Emet-Selch, etc.) inspire all of this "They did nothing wrong" parroting in the fanbase, though.

I'm not on good terms with a couple of NPCs. Erik from the MNK quest line, and the researcher hanging out in Sorrel Haven in the Central Shroud to name a couple.

Marcette?

[HeyMcFly]

Cid.
I hate him & wish we could kill him off.
Anytime there is dialogue with him I skip it or completely ignore it.
From the way he talks, the way he looks, his dumb looking hair (it's a karen hairstyle) & wears a random oven-mitt.
His neck is incredibly large compared to his head & he has no wrists, it's literally forearm & hand.
Cid looks like the palm of a fat persons hand with clothes & white tissue paper.
The only good thing about him is He has a full beard (but whoever decided he needed a beard had never really seen a beard before so his beard doesn't even look like proper beard hair) Why is Cid the only man to ever be able to grow a full beard in XIV??

He just looks so poorly designed & the white hair & overly pasty skin makes him look like a creep.
I'd celebrate if he was just killed off or replaced.

[Kikoten]

Every female roegadyn

That's blasphemy! I love femroes to death. I wish Elezen didn't have giraffe necks, though. Every time an Elezen's neck becomes visible, I think of the Toys R' Us giraffe.

[Berteaux_Braumegain]

Renda-Rae. I thought she was too much of a slag who kept talking a lot of smack and her "backstory" didnt do much to have me sympathize with her. Although I hated all of the Warriors of Darkness anyway prior to Shadowbringers lol. The only one I didnt dislike from the get-go was Nyelbert mostly because he kept whatever stinking antagonistic attitude he would've shown at the Source to himself. Ardbert was such a try hard edgelord and Branden was such a dilbert constantly making smug faces and I didnt appreciate how he bullied Y'shtola.

*but like I said, I love em now so maybe this post I made was totally pointless*

I agree. The Warriors of Darkness were not great in Heavensward, and I really hated how Renda-Rae couldn't have two words come out of her mouth without talking about how much she enjoyed shooting Alisaie or how she was looking forward to shooting Alisaie again.

They got better later, or at least Ardbert did, but man that soured me on them as characters initially. Especially when Final Fantasy III had Warriors of Darkness that were good guys from the outset and help your characters fight the final boss.

[Sauteed]

That's blasphemy! I love femroes to death. I wish Elezen didn't have giraffe necks, though. Every time an Elezen's neck becomes visible, I think of the Toys R' Us giraffe.

[Lauront]

Cid.
I hate him & wish we could kill him off.
Anytime there is dialogue with him I skip it or completely ignore it.
From the way he talks, the way he looks, his dumb looking hair (it's a karen hairstyle) & wears a random oven-mitt.
His neck is incredibly large compared to his head & he has no wrists, it's literally forearm & hand.
Cid looks like the palm of a fat persons hand with clothes & white tissue paper.
The only good thing about him is He has a full beard (but whoever decided he needed a beard had never really seen a beard before so his beard doesn't even look like proper beard hair) Why is Cid the only man to ever be able to grow a full beard in XIV??

He just looks so poorly designed & the white hair & overly pasty skin makes him look like a creep.
I'd celebrate if he was just killed off or replaced.

Good shout.

[Gemina]

Marcette?

That would be her. She refers to us as a number, and sometimes not even that. She can't remember if we're a test subject and whatnot. Her tone never changes throughout the course of the game, not even once. Anywho, I remember when I was really green playing this game, I died doing a quest she gave me. Then she is involved in a SCH quest much later in the game, and me thinking "I'm more experienced now, haha!" still found some way to die during that quest as well. Me dying in the outside world is really, really rare. Even way back then. She is seriously bad juju. She has evil yellow eyes too. I think she's a werewolf.

[Berteaux_Braumegain]

That would be her. She refers to us as a number, and sometimes not even that. She can't remember if we're a test subject and whatnot. Her tone never changes throughout the course of the game, not even once. Anywho, I remember when I was really green playing this game, I died doing a quest she gave me. Then she is involved in a SCH quest much later in the game, and me thinking "I'm more experienced now, haha!" still found some way to die during that quest as well. Me dying in the outside world is really, really rare. Even way back then. She is seriously bad juju. She has evil yellow eyes too. I think she's a werewolf.

She was involved ina Valentione's event a while back and everyone got so mad that she wound up abusing the guy she got paired up with, especially since the NPCs were all "I'm sure it'll work out, haha."

[Gemina]

Honestly? This is gonna be a weird one but...

THE SHROUD'S ELEMENTALS.
Finicky as all hells. Disloyal, since they were ready to abandon Gridania after one (1!) powerful Blasphemy popped up and scared 'em, despite the many, many years of devotion afforded to them. They seemed to be absolutely insane too, like "will kill you and your whole family if you pick the wrong plant" kind of insane in the past.
I'm not exaggerating, look.



And don't forget people lived in Gelmorra in fear of them in the first place!

I don't know how Gridanians are cool with possibly being uprooted by these things, imagine one day government changes and they say let's industrialize. What then?
Also, I know they've been weakened by Dalamud's fall and all but here's hoping they've chilled out... or that some insane Garlean madman drops a nuclear strike on them (lol) and finishes the job. They're the worst elementals too, the Eureka ones are so nice.

You know, I never really thought about them that way until the recent tank role quests, which is what I think you're referring to. And yup, the elementals and their fearless leader have no qualm with unleashing their wrath upon simple creatures that can put up very little of a fight against the forces of nature, but shove a Blasphemy or a Dark Rider up their butt and they sing a whole different tune.

"The Great One", eh? Reminds me of a bully.

[Enla]

You know, I never really thought about them that way until the recent tank role quests, which is what I think you're referring to. And yup, the elementals and their fearless leader have no qualm with unleashing their wrath upon simple creatures that can put up very little of a fight against the forces of nature, but shove a Blasphemy or a Dark Rider up their butt and they sing a whole different tune.

"The Great One", eh? Reminds me of a bully.

Yep, remember that one ARR quest with the Ala Mhigan refugees who were being refused help because the Elementals would have gotten pissy? They're basically forces of nature that have no allegiance or care for anyone around them and only tolerate others so long as they get their way. I can't really blame Gridania for worshiping them out of fear though given the lore surrounding their antics in the lore. They were genuinely terrifying before Dalamud dropped the nerf bat on their heads.