Quote Originally Posted by StormChase View Post
I think there's gonna be an Alexander comeback. That thing the Hotgo used to summon Alexander looked kinda like electrope.
Would be interesting if they did that overall, I just really thought it was going to happen in the 7.0 MSQ.
hope they don't completely ditch Wuk Lamat.
I don't think they will ditch her. But she is a city state leader now. We barely interact with those. We will most likely speak to them about as often as we speak with Lord Hien or the Elder Seedseer.
the game has this habit of removing characters from the story, even if they have potential, because the players are super negative about them
I don't think there is any evidence of that.

If you mean to compare her to Lyse like everyone else is, she seemed destined to become the leader of Ala Mhigo from the start. But she was always a fighter; even going back to ARR, her thing was punching people up. She wasn't really much of an actual confident leader or politician. So when she was provided with that chance, there was clearly someone who was confident with an Ala Mhigan background - Raubahn. If you actually go right to the beginning of Stormblood the seeds for this lack of confidence as a leader and politician were intentionally put there from the start.

But since she always was a passionate fighter, it made sense to just go back to overseeing their army at Rhalgr's Reach.

So from my point of view, Lyse was always going to go in this direction. I don't even remember any hate really until streamers started having a go at her long after that story arc finished.
People really hated Alphinaud too, but their view of him changed because the writers didn't kill him off in Heavensward.
I loved Alphinaud in ARR. I did not like what he became after that. I found him extremely relatable in ARR and I liked how he was being "smart" to everyone. Maybe the voice actor just conveyed his character to me better in ARR, I don't know. I liked the story arc for him in Heavensward, but after that I just didn't find his character believable.

Their plan was never to kill him off, ever. They saw Alphinaud and Alisaie as the future and I remember Yoshi-P saying he wanted Alisaie to eventually replace Minfilia (probably due to being a fighter and more relatable), which is most likely why we got that one-on-one conversation with her in Heavensward.
Meanwhile Minfilia's still seen as annoying because she got fridged before she could grow on the players and grow as a character.
I think they intended to kill off the characters they did anyway because they couldn't salvage them and make them interesting. They salvaged Y'shtola by making her blind and see aether which gave her a unique super power and they salvaged Thancred by making him have a unique weakness (inability to use magic) and they salvaged Yda with the mask reveal but I think they just couldn't think of a way to stop certain characters being bland and made them interesting after they died instead (Minfilia, Moenbryda, etc).