What are your favorite in game characters?

[sorawild34]

Alphinaud is by far my favorite character overall. His character growth throughout the expansions is some of the best I'd ever seen

[Kolsykol]

Lyse
Yugiri
Gosetsu
Yotsuyu
Gaius
Emet
Urianger
Thancred
Tataru
Alphinaud
Estinien
Ysayle
Zenos
Elidibus
Hythlodaeus
Minfillia

I kinda want to say Alisaie too but I dunno, I kinda like her but just not as much.
Lyse imo is the most underrated character, I think people just dismissed her because of the sloppy writing through most of the main SB MSQ.
She got way better in the post MSQ and moving forward ( also I am a bit biased cuz MNK, but still ).
It really felt like people just stopped paying attention to her character and decided that they hate her and just wouldn't give her a chance at all, like if people had just judged Alphinaud based on ARR still.
Same with Minfillia too really, people made her the scapegoat of the ARR fetch quests.
It's silly to blame her for being '' useless '' too, she was the leader of the scions her work wasn't out in the field lol. And a lot of other characters got kidnapped and needed help too... It's just weird and unfair to zero in on her specifically.
I liked her part as the Oracle of Light a lot too.

I wish we could get more Yugiri too, it was my biggest disappointment in EW that she just wasn't there ( outside of the Job quest ).
I feel like she's way more important than the game acts sometimes, especially with ARR and Heavensward in mind she really saved our ass and has always been super dependable.
She had really great scenes in Stormblood too.

Zenos had some of the best voice acting in gaming imo, and really well written dialogue he was just fun to listen to.
I also loved his role as a sort of mirror and nemesis of the WoL, basically the WoL equivelant from the Garlean side but perverted by his upbringing and without the journey the WoL had.

[Rangiswimming]

I shall always live in fear of one Ms. Rowena.

Ameliance, on the other hand, goes into the trashcan. At least her husband didn't throw me to be Rowena's lapdog again.