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#30 Julia

She is a BADASS. That's the thing that defines Julia. Her squad gets taken down, her princess and queen arrested, all hope is lost, and she is disguising as a nun, sending messges through Sieg, plotting a one woman counter-coup. A freaking tank is attacking, and she's raising her sword against it, just like that. Julia is cool, man. And she is loyal. And she gives Cassius a mean 1v1 spar in a cutscene.

But mean, I don't actually care about her that much. I'm a broken record at this point, but it's another one dimensional character, no motivations beside the obvious stuff, etc. She exists because we need good, competent people in the military, and Cassius is too competent, Cid is not cool enough and Mogran is too morally complex to do that all the time.

I feel like I'm probably devlivering unfair rankings to some characters because Trails 3 will improve them. I mean, all Julia needs is one flashback or two showing what made her decide to be cool like that and she could get a lot more endearing. But alas, I'm not ranking people based on Trails 3 for now. Better luck next list, Julia.

#29 Hans

I've already explained Hans role in Jill's write-up. He serves to be Josh's friend during school, since girls are busy hanging out with one another. The friendship is not really shown with a lot of dialogue, but he's always there, hanging out. And when Josh leaves Hans is upset. I'm not sure how much of that is homo ship tease or if it's actual friendship, but the point is, Hans is a bro. He's a good ffiend, who went out of his way to help Josh feel welcome in an environment he's never gotten to experience before.

He's a pretty minor character, tbh. But I appreciate good friends like that.

#28 Luciola

The first Enforcer falls. Luciola is higher than her characterization would normally allow, compared to other characters in this list, because she is really cool, in a villanious way. Especially in chapter 4, where she has one of the best leads up to and introductions in the series. The woman has style, and there's a reason her enforcer introduction shot was the one I screencapped to post here. Her second fight is also pretty interesting, with her really using her illusions effectively, by switching places with the PCs.

But I find her hard to vibe with. I'm still not sure what the game was trying to tell me with her, it kind of kept going back and forth with her motivations. Is she a psychopath? Or just someone whose love wasn't corresponded? Did she really love the ringleader, or not? Why is she helping Orobouros now? Heck, even her suicide is ambiguous. I think Luciola is just meant to be hard to crack, and we'll have to live with that. But that makes me hard to really care that much.

#27 Don

Yes, there's one Sky Bandit I actually like. If Kyle is the Spock and Josette is the McCoy, Don is the Kirk. The balanced one, who really gets people and knows what to say, or when not to say anything. They are all trying to figure Josh out but Don already did. Which is interesting since he looks like the brute one of the team, not the mellow out people's person he is.

Truly a gentle giant. Which makes it tragic, in hindsight, when you remember what Weissmann's brainwashing turned him into, and makes me understand why his siblings were so upset. They have relied and trusted this guy for their entire lives, and suddenly he's some monster.

The names in this list are starting to get good, so I don't have much bad to say. He just doesn't have that much character and screentime, I guess. Those went to Josette, who then used them to insult Estelle 100 times.