I’m a fan of the DE 2.0 group, they’re fun characters to lead you through each LS release. I liked Rox immediately, Braham soon after, Marjory is pretty cool (although the constant fawning over Kasmeer gets a bit dull) and I was sceptical about Taimi, because the whole ‘precocious child’ thing could easily be annoying, but I think she’s adorable, has great voice work, and her disability makes her more likable, and stops her being too perfect.
So they’re our representatives for each race, so nobody feels left out and we get a lot of contrasting personalities and viewpoints. We’re just missing a sylvari.
Seeing as a sylvari is currently the villain, it makes sense to not overload the story with them, plus it might necessitate leaning on an extra plant person for answers about Scarlet. But after Scarlet is defeated, surely a sylvari will join the sub-Destiny’s Edge group.
It’s probably going to be Ceara. The investigation scene emphasised that she was a normal girl before trying to look into the eternal alchemy or something. Something has corrupted her mind. The separation of that previous ‘normal’ persona from her current state as Scarlet Briar, and name-dropping the Ceara part, implies we’ll end up fixing Scarlet’s mind and returning her to her original self eventually. There’s also that the LS characters mostly have some connection to their DE equivalent (Rox trying to get into Rytlock’s warband, Braham is Eir’s son) and Scarlet has some connection to Caithe and knows secrets about her.
I’m kind of apprehensive about this, it just seems like we’ve got all this stuff about something ‘controlling Scarlet’s mind’ and scaring her and turning her insane for its own purpose, so that once we confront whatever that enemy is, Scarlet gets healed back into Ceara and absolved because she wasn’t really in control of her actions, and takes the sylvari spot in the group to use her abilities for good.
I’d be kinda peeved if that happened, since Scarlet has caused a heck of a lot of trouble, killed people, attempted regicide, etc, I hope we don’t just forget all that because she wasn’t in her right mind. :P I’d much rather put both of them down for good. I’m getting tired of hearing Tara Strong in everything, lol.
On the other hand, there’s Canach, but not much has been done with him, even though he does seem accepting of his punishment and was never really that bad. A male sylvari rep would also keep things more even, if it was Ceara, there’d only be one male in the group. It could be someone who hasn’t been introduced yet to keep the story less chock-full of sylvari, but all the focus on how ‘Ceara is being controlled by something’ makes me think it’ll be her.
Until then though, I play a sylvari so I can just pretend I’m the missing piece until proven otherwise.
tl;dr scarlet’s irritating and i hope she doesn’t get reformed and forgiven at the end of the plot