Quote Originally Posted by Hyperia View Post
It paints you into a corner when you kill people when you do not have an amazing reason to do so.
Only when the killed characters are the draw, and the writers aren't capable of making a better one.

The Scions really aren't the draw of FFXIV. Like, sure, since SHB they've gotten a ton of stage time, and had plenty of CS time before then, too. But prior to SHB people were more interested in characters like Nero, Cid, Aymeric, Hien etc.

There's more than just them too, and there's plenty of folks in FFXIV's orbit that would go bananas to see them featured as MSQ companions over the Scions. Like they could probably unceremoniously kill Thancred, and the playerbase wouldn't mind as long as someone else filled his shoes, at least until the obligatory, "Oh I loved Thancred all along!" starts to crop up from the same people who said back in 5.x, "They need to kill Thancred specifically because I hate him."