Most Hated XIV Character

[Katt_Felista]

[Hurlstone]

Honestly? One of the joys about the game and its story is just how much I really enjoy the characters. There are none that I can think of who I actively hate or make the game worse off for me… now dislike? That is a different story. There are plenty of minor NPCs who I would not mind never seeing again (Looking at you, half the PLD characters). For major characters… hmm… I would have said Thancred and Alphinaud in ARR, but both of them where given great development in the expansions which made me like them alot more.

OK this may be a bit controversial but… I am really not a fan of Tataru. Like I get it. She is the heart of the Scions, she is meant to be an example of one of the reasons we take up our swords and protect Eorza… but I just do not like her. I dunno why. Is it how emotional she gets at times over the WoL? Why would that be the case when I spent most of Shadowbringers and Endwalker in tears? (The good kind) Perhaps I feel she is just too sweet? Or that she just feels too much like a trope character? Hmm… many of the Scions have been through changes and trials that have really effected them. Perhaps thats what I would like to see happen with Tataru, give her a proper grand journey outside of her capitalist urges. I dunno!

[dynus]

Hmmm... I know I'm supposed to hate Asahi, but he's too entertaining to me.

I guess... Hien? I mean, I don't hate him, but out of all the characters we hang out with, he's the least entertaining. At least he's nice to look at?

[True-to-Caesar]

Zodiark. Hyped to the bones, made us think he is the most powerful evil being. Even if he was in imperfect form, he should be much stronger and bigger than the one we encountered. He got slapped for less than 10 minutes and "oh nooo i die" even in extreme difficulty. He is so dumb, only thing he did was spinning the arena around and calling meteor. Guess what else can call meteor? Behemoths. A trash mob. I expected insta death, doom heavy kind of fight where healers need to use LB3 and spam those dispells in extreme.

They honestly just did him very dirty this expansion, the famous subvert expectations. I was hoping for something more engaging but nope. Just big bad prisoner dies and gives an excuse for not so good characters to take the spotlight.

[NekoMataMata]

That's the thing - that wasn't the true Zodiark - it was, basically, Fandaniel using the form as a puppet of sorts.

It's still problematic. Everything makes sense from a story perspective, but it doesn't feel satisfying.

Even with Meteion as the twist villain, Zodiark should've had the spotlight for a bit. Zodiark was the build up of a large portion of the series. EW should have been his arc, and then Meteion should've been the next expansion with the in between patch stories getting us to that point.

[Carin-Eri]

It's still problematic. Everything makes sense from a story perspective, but it doesn't feel satisfying.

Even with Meteion as the twist villain, Zodiark should've had the spotlight for a bit. Zodiark was the build up of a large portion of the series. EW should have been his arc, and then Meteion should've been the next expansion with the in between patch stories getting us to that point.

Oh I don't disagree - I would've preferred that Hydaelyn hadn't been a boss fight, personally. I'd have preferred her to have judged us by the outcome of a fight with the genuine Zodiark rather than fight us herself.

[Sharkie]

Y'shtola, please stay dead for once, you snarky exposition device.

[hydralus]

Y'shtola for sure. Out of a crew of highly learned scholars who are prone to making very stupid decisions, hers have the least effect on the story but are still just as idiotic. It wouldn't even be worth considering if she weren't the poster child of the game for some reason.

[KenaiChoppa]

Fordola by far.

Yes Xenos is one of the most "empty" character out there, but Fordola whole arc was SO obvious, simple and boring that I guessed her whole arc in the first cut scene she had.

[Soge01]

Yotsuyu's foster parents and Asahi. They were just unnecessarily cruel to Yotsuyu. And while Yotsuyu herself ultimately became no better, those three were the ones who created the greater monster in the first place and it was quite satisfying seeing Yotsuyu put them all down.