Quote Originally Posted by Eyrilona View Post
I can see where you are coming from with that comment, but I think you are mixing up Trusts with Duty Support. Trust has never cared about who was actually with you at that point in the story. I can do a Trust run of the first MSQ dungeon with Y'sthola, G'raha, and Urianger if I wanted to, and none of those were on the right continent or on your side at that time in the story.

A for Duty Support, I agree that it was ridiculous that scions were getting dragged along as silent bystanders through the story just to have them canonically there for Duty Support, but the more obvious solution to that is that they could have just filled the needed slots with some generic locals helping out just like how in low level dungeons Duty Support tends to be unnamed Grand Company soldiers. There was no need for you to travel with an entourage at all.
Sorry yeah, I hardly ever use it, so I get the terms mixed up, but it's basically what you said.