Quote Originally Posted by DiaDeem View Post
If he really wants to try a story without them, them stop bringing them along like tokens that stand around and do nothing. And don't get me wrong: I love the twins, but I have no idea why they came to Tural.
Alphinaud did nothing this entire expansion. The dude is the most politically active Scion that we have apart from Urianger. He shares 0 insight with Wuk Lamat's plight and gives her no advice or a push in the right direction. He is just there to make another joke about collecting freaking firewood. Meanwhile Alisaie has, somehow, completely dropped her mask and become this oddly affectionate character specifically to Wuk Lamat. Normally you'd have to pull her teeth out to get any kind of positive relationship with her that wasn't masked in some kind of bravado. But with Wuk? It's all loving talks and pet names. Who are these characters?

Alphinaud would not only offer, he would demand, that you listen to what he has to say in regards to leadership. There is literally no one better in this plot to get advice from than that man in this instance. He has failed and fallen harder and been built back up from scratch and knows the pains that Wuk supposedly feels. But he just doesn't... They're only here to be Trusts and thats it. Trusts should have just been like what past trials did with random NPCs. Give me a Mol Shaman and stuff like they did in Stormblood to fill out the roster. I have 0 issues with that rather than bastardise beloved characters in order to shoe horn them in for the system.