I really wish the main characters in this would actually do more stuff. It feels like most of the time they're too afraid to help out. Like the scene in the Act 1 Chapter 3 department store where the guy's getting sent to an internment camp and Juna's all like "we can't do anything to help him" it's like aren't you guys supposed to be heroes? If Estelle were there in Juna's place, she would've done whatever was necessary to save someone like that. It'd be real nice to be a little more proactive. 23 hours in and all we've really done is meet up with some other Thors people.
Part of the problem (IMO) is that the stakes are too high. They have this huge war plot that's going to kill millions of people and don't really do anything about it. Personally, I generally enjoy the small stakes stuff in Trails more, and wish we didn't even have to deal with the war. And the game hasn't - everything the main characters have done has been focused on the small scale stuff! I dunno, it all feels a bit strange.
In Class VII's defense they're literally wanted fugitives at that point. Confronting the IDF like that just wouldn't be a smart move and I'm not sure even Estelle would try something that brazen in their situation... if she did I think it'd be because being a bracer is literally about helping civilians (ignoring the political situation within Erebonia and Bracers.)
That said you are right that Class VII's approach to the war is... odd seeming. Like the whole plan is 1 Find Rean. 2 ???. 3 Stop War? which really doesn't seem to flow logically. I assume it'll work because they live in a JRPG but really Mildine was the only one who seemed to be offering up a real plan and her plan was "Well, stopping the war is impossible, so might as well try to win it by getting literally everyone else in Zemuria to team-up with Calvard."
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