Sorry if this question has been asked already, but what was the point of making Yda into Lyse AND (to my knowledge) revealing that the real Yda had died even before 1.0? I haven't played Stormblood or Heavensward in a few years, but in hindsight, it just doesn't seem to contribute to the story in any meaningful way.
I felt like it would have been far, far more meaningful for Yda to have simply been Yda, to have escaped from Ala Mhigo as a child and later join the Scions, and then to have dedicated herself to her work with the Scions in the following years and become complacent with her new life. The complacency could have led to an extreme feeling of guilt after Papalymo dies as a result of Ilberd's actions - actions which, if I recall correctly, were driven by resentment at Eorzea's inaction and especially by resentment at the inaction of Ala Mhigan refugees like Raubahn and, in this hypothetical case, Yda. She could have felt guilty because she could have done more for her country and possibly saved Papalymo in the process, which also could have given her the resolve to fight for her long lost homeland to prevent deaths like this from happening again - two very powerful reasons for her to join you in Stormblood and eventually leave the Scions at the end. This whole scenario just seems like it would have made more sense and been more consistent with the themes and other characters of the expansion. Raubahn would have understood and been able to guide her because his situation would have been similar.
With Lyse, she just doesn't seem to have a good reason to fight for Ala Mhigo. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like she wants to fight for them because her sister and father did. She didn't really remember her childhood or have any substantial ties to Ala Mhigo. She just enters the country and wants to fight because...her sister wanted to? Even the short stories on the Lodestone about Lyse were incredibly weak. M'naago resolves to follow Lyse because she finds that Lyse had beaten up a bunch of Garleans with bestial ferocity despite being mostly an outsider, but...wouldn't anyone fight with bestial ferocity if their lives were on the line? The whole story and everything surrounding Lyse just seems so inconsistent and contrived, and I don't understand WHY when it seems like it would have been so much better and consistent and emotional to just have her be Yda.
So yeah! What was the point of making Lyse? Would it have been better to just have Yda be Yda without the (in my opinion) superfluous sister subplot?
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I felt like it would have been far, far more meaningful for Yda to have simply been Yda, to have escaped from Ala Mhigo as a child and later join the Scions, and then to have dedicated herself to her work with the Scions in the following years and become complacent with her new life. The complacency could have led to an extreme feeling of guilt after Papalymo dies as a result of Ilberd's actions - actions which, if I recall correctly, were driven by resentment at Eorzea's inaction and especially by resentment at the inaction of Ala Mhigan refugees like Raubahn and, in this hypothetical case, Yda. She could have felt guilty because she could have done more for her country and possibly saved Papalymo in the process, which also could have given her the resolve to fight for her long lost homeland to prevent deaths like this from happening again - two very powerful reasons for her to join you in Stormblood and eventually leave the Scions at the end. This whole scenario just seems like it would have made more sense and been more consistent with the themes and other characters of the expansion. Raubahn would have understood and been able to guide her because his situation would have been similar.
With Lyse, she just doesn't seem to have a good reason to fight for Ala Mhigo. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like she wants to fight for them because her sister and father did. She didn't really remember her childhood or have any substantial ties to Ala Mhigo. She just enters the country and wants to fight because...her sister wanted to? Even the short stories on the Lodestone about Lyse were incredibly weak. M'naago resolves to follow Lyse because she finds that Lyse had beaten up a bunch of Garleans with bestial ferocity despite being mostly an outsider, but...wouldn't anyone fight with bestial ferocity if their lives were on the line? The whole story and everything surrounding Lyse just seems so inconsistent and contrived, and I don't understand WHY when it seems like it would have been so much better and consistent and emotional to just have her be Yda.
So yeah! What was the point of making Lyse? Would it have been better to just have Yda be Yda without the (in my opinion) superfluous sister subplot?
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