[SPOILER discussion] Foreshadowing of Future?

[EdwinLi]

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So during this event a interesting thing happened near the end of the Songbird side of the event being that one of the song birds had this strange feeling that this maybe the last time they see the WoL but then shrugs it off saying it was just her being paranoid and that the WoL will be there next time for their next year event.


It is just a speculation but this maybe a foreshadowing to the upcoming Main Scenario events where this time the WoL may die or at least goes missing for a certain period of time that people presumed the WoL is dead. No long will WoL be saved this time by a random NPC or ally that keep making themselves the Sacrifice so the WoL can live but this time the WoL is striked down with no one to save him or her.

Any thoughts on this?

[Enkidoh]

I read that as that was the last time we would be seeing her, not the other way around. As in, it could just be a hint that SE are retiring the Songbirds for the Little Ladies Day event and trying something else next year. We'll see either way.

Also our character has plot armour as we are the 'main' character so we have nothing to be afraid of in that regard (they never kill off the 'main' protagonist in any FF game, at least not until the story is complete. And I doubt they would hint that in a seasonal event quest). Because without our character, there is simply no storyline.

[Dualblade]

The Wolf can only die when the game ends as they are the only character we control. It's more likely that next year there will be some family drama involving Narumi.

[Balipu]

We definitely won't die. This is an MMO with a single player character. In a regular offline final fantasy you can sacrefice anyone, or even everyone like in Type-0, but not here. We definitely won't die. Defeat, sure? Kidnapped? Why not? Manipulated? Every day. Killed? Nope.

[Cilia]

I figured it just meant the group wouldn't appear in the future, or have broken up by the next Little Ladies' Day. They're basically Eorzean idol singers, and that industry is infamous for chewing up and spitting out its performers.

[Ametrine]

Yeah, it does just sound like the Songbirds are done appearing in our regular events. The Royal Senechal mentions they are now both popular and self-confident to go on a wide tour.

Honestly don't know why they came back at all. I love the rave emotes, but the girls were just there.

[Rongway]

I agree with the replies, but just for the sake of future arguments, in re: main character death, it is allowed for the world to think the main character is dead, while only the main character and maybe his closest companions know that to be false. Plot armor protects us from what may actually happen; it doesn't protect the NPCs from thinking worse things happened.

[Naria]

Having the WoL be dead or everyone think they are in a patch series could end up being more absurd then that time we were fugitives in three of the city states and in hiding at Camp Dragonhead for three months . . . except not really. I mean it could be done, but it would work best in an expansion not a patch series and next Little Ladies Day will be during Stormblood's patch series. I agree that either the Songbirds are getting retired or something is going to happen to Narumi. Either way it would be a change of pace for the event series.

[Theodric]

I don't struggle to envision scenarios where the Warrior of Light could end up dead in a plausible manner, only to be brought back shortly afterwards - albeit with his companions not knowing that he has returned. I think it'd be pretty interesting for various reasons, not only to serve as a means of humbling the Warrior of Light but also because it could show just who seeks to exploit the scenario once they are presumed to be taken out of the picture.

I do agree that it's unlikely to happen (especially with the negative reaction a lot of people have to even the slightest step away from their self insert being the best thing ever, but it's fun to envision nevertheless. As for Little Ladies Day, the comment is like just a means to forewarn players that next year will be something different. I don't mind, really - the Songbirds don't grip me and we've had them for three years now.

[Vexander]

I once thought SE might do something like this with an expansion.


Start it off either fighting Garlemald or at some kind of Peace Treaty only for the Garleans to capture the Warrior of Light and for everyone else to presume they're actually dead. The Warrior of Light (us) would then go through the expansion with any existence in older content either being ignored or NPCs saying things like, "You sort of look like the Warrior of Light, but he/she's gone," with places like the Rising Stones being vacated or inaccessible for reasons.

It'd be something of a solo adventure to bring Garlemald down from within by finding reasonable Garleans who don't want war and conquest and would rather have the Republic back. At the end the rest of the world realizes we're alive, and we learn our death caused some... unpleasant side effects back in Eorzea that we'll need to contend with over the 5.X patches. Stuff like pirates undermining the Admiral's authority without the WoL backing her, or the Sultana being ousted in a coup, or the Elementals sealing off the Twelveswood, or even Ishgard withdrawing from the Alliance out of anger over what they would perceive as the Alliance's abandoning the Warrior of Light to death.

Probably too much to think of even being considered, but it would be interesting. Not that I care for the idea of things falling apart without us, but at the same time, our disappearance and reappearance becoming the impetus to burn out the last vestiges of corruption and intrigue within the Eorzean Alliance's nations does also hold it's own value.