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#37 Alicia

Another extremely important character! She is the queen! And I wasn't even going to rank her originally, because she doesn't have any characterization either. She is Kloe, but old, and experienced. I'm sure she's had an entire life of self-development, but it's not her story we are watching here. She's at least above Russel because her conversation with Estelle and Josh is a little heartwarming, and I had less time to be annoyed about her one-dimensionality, compared to Russel, who was usually close by.

#36 Aina

Aina... kind of sucks. Her character outside of being a guild clerk is that she has superhuman drinking abilities (a.k.a. undiagnosed alcoholism). She is part of a not extremely funny sidequest involving some people I ranked at the bottom. So why did I even bother, you ask?

Because of that one little scene, after Josh returns, where she comments on how she's always felt like a mother to him, having given his first bracer notebook. That is small, but it's a good piece of worldbuilding. She has watched Estelle and Josh grow up from little kids to bracers! She has been there to listen to her woes and give advice all this time! So it was nice to see her showing how much she cares.

Now that I think about it, the guild clerks are one intriguing part of the setting. They aren't really bracers, right? But they are all extremely competent, and on top of everything. I wonder what it takes to become a guild clerk. Hey, I just changed subjects, which probably indicates this character isn't that great outside that one scene.

#35 Josette

I really, really wanted to like Josette. I didn't want to fall into the commonplace of "Josette sucks in battles, so let's rank her low, haha". She get so much screen time. She is a decent person. She enhances Josh's character arc by keeping him from descending too much into darkness while he is away from Estelle in SC.

But whenever I try to think of actual scenes involving Josette, all that appears in my mind is her completely assymetric rivarly with Estelle. She doesn't stand a chance, but that doesn't make her stop. Ever. So the two bicker and bicker and bicker and that's all it ever happens. It was funny in FC's prologue, but it stopped being funny afterwards. Actually, Josette was just much more interesting then, with her whole pretending to be a noble to steal a jewel. She could have been some kind of femme fatale. Is Josette the game's biggest case of flanderization? Maybe.

#34 Kyle

Man, The Sky Bandits really are more than the sum of their parts, huh. I love the bunch, but you look at them individually and there just isn't much. Kyle is the smart guy of the bunch. He is the who reads Josh and actually makes improvements to his plans. He is the guy who calls Josette out when she is being dumb. He is... what else? I don't know, but I'm not annoyed at him like I am at Josette, so he is ranked higher. Whatever.