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#34 Kurt

"By my arts... I will make you restart the game on Normal!"

I saw this quote online once and thought it was hilarious. Kurt's claim to fame is being one of the most unfair bosses in the series in high difficulties.

Don't let the man fool you. He seems interesting because he hangs out with Grant, but he isn't much better. He is generic. I've already forgotten what playing him felt like, even, it was so short. He is the only character who is playable in Sky 2 but not Sky 3, probably because the devs realized no one cares.

Yet, there are so many little hints of a real character there. He likes to read a lot and hone his mind. His crafts are actually "arts" that don't use orbments, which he learned from some foreign cultures. He is canonically the #1 bracer in Liberl, after Cassius returns to the army! What's up with that? But alas, none of that gets developed much. Kurt is a prototype of a good character.

#33 Mueller

Wow I'm dunking on playable characters left and right. Ok, I think people actually care about this one, so give me a minute before you start throwing rocks.

Mueller is Olivier's straight man. That's good and all, but the problem is that he isn't actually around most of the time. The people who really get to be Olivier's straight men are the other playable characters (especially Estelle, who does it amazingly). Mueller shows up every other chapter, complains Olivier is being annoying, threatens to take him away, gets embarassed by one of Olivier's sexual advances, and leaves. Rinse and repeat for two games. It's a repetitive routine that doesn't evolve, particularly because he isn't actually THERE, to interact with Olivier as the story happens and Olivier gets to show his character depth. So Muller is a one note character.

Anything else? Well there is chapter 9, where he most follows Julia around, in a what feels like a very soft ship tease. There's some stuff with his uncle, which isn't being developed this game. There's the awesome fight with Josh, arguably the reason he is above Kurt, but is that even brought up again in the game? It never leads anywehre, and Mueller is just a one dimensional character, even if his dynamic with Olivier is funny enough to make me smile.

#32 Cid

The good military guy. The one who does the right thing even though he will likely face imprisonment or death for it. I'm a sucker for these types of characters. And I love how the game set him up to be one of Richard's goons, then revealed he was good all along.

But to be fair, that's more praise on the plot than the character. Cid is the military's answer to Grant. He is pretty generic, he doesn't have any special abilities, and once the coup plot ends, he fades into the background so hard he might as well be wallpaper. Why, between Cassius, Julia and Mogran, the story doesn't really need Cid. Good job Cid, you made a difference when your country needed you, but to climb up this list, you need more characterization.

#31 Sieg

We finally rank the bird so we can make fun of the people who got ranked below the bird. Such is the dynamic of character rankings, as a certain parrot has once shown.

Not a Falcon is a bird that breaks the laws of common sense, because it can understand human language and make humans underatand the bird language it speaks, with complex sentences. The game does that routine but also makes fun of itself, usually with Agate complaining it doesn't make sense. Well it doesn't, but it's funny.

Sieg is also a flying plot device. He a cell phone, since Liberl doesn't have them, he locates plot hooks ahead of the cast so they know where to go next, etc.

And he gets to be Kloe's weapon in her Chain Crafts, something I've always found hilarious. The bird is better at Melee than Kloe herself!

But he is still just a bird, and I can't keep from ranking him for too long before it gets ridiculous.