Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE LXIV (Natsuko Ishikawa)

[Aimetrot]

Greetings, everyone!

We're pleased to announce that the sixty-fourth installment of the Letter from the Producer LIVE will feature Main Scenario Writer Natsuko Ishikawa as a guest!
The next Live Letter is set to take place on Saturday, May 15, at 7:00 p.m. (PDT) / Sunday, May 16 at 2:00 (GMT) / 3:00 (BST).

In this thread, we'd like you to post questions you may have for Main Scenario Writer Natsuko Ishikawa!

Feel free to post any burning questions you may have about FINAL FANTASY XIV’s story, how its quests are developed, or anything else related to the game’s writing. She will attempt to field as many questions as time allows.

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[RicaRuin]

Is it true that you did the writing for Zenos as well? How do you feel about people claiming he is rather boring and bland compared to other characters you wrote?

[braigiseterre]

What are your favorite scenes in Shadowbringers? Any ones that are particularly important to you?

[rainbowtoarrow]

How did you feel about the success of Shadowbringers and did you feel a lot of pressure when writing Endwalker because of it?

(Thank you so much if you answer, you are so loved, I wish you many Oreo cookies ❤️)

[kazushin]

Will Poster/Canon Warrior of Light aka Meteor finally be a healer class through an expansion trailer instead of being under either a Tank or DPS class?

[ZhenKhei]

Have you ever gotten writter’s block while written the story for shadowbringers? If so, what were your methods to get you motivating to resume

[Arcadia_Lunashine]

Firstly I would like to say thank you Natsuko Ishikawa for being the reason that my character is finally a badass Lalafellin White Mage in ShB and for managing to make me cry in patch 5.3 as well as the story of the expansion itself. Secondly do you have any advice for people that like to write stories and such on sites like Fanfiction.net etc. You rock Ishikawa (and so does Yoshi-P, Foxclon, Koji-Fox and Soken A.K.A. the god of FFXIV music himself)

[SaberMaxwell]

Hello there! Thank you for your hard work with writing in ffxiv. I've been a fan of your work since the drk 30-50 storyline, and recently grew to enjoy it's 50-60 storyline as well.

My question is, what do you read? I'm always fascinated learning the literature that my favorite storywriters read. As an extension to the question, have you read anything interesting lately, and what did you grow up reading?

[Theodric]

During the parley with Emperor Varis I was hoping to be able to bring up his fallen friend, Regula, in an attempt to persuade him to work with the Warrior of Light. How would Varis have reacted to that and will we get to see more of the friendships between antagonists in the future?

[Kemiko]

For Ishikawa:
As a writer for a MMO that has gone through some motion capture turmoil in the past, has their been some scenes reflected in the games cinematics that never quite captured the visual or tone you were going for?