Virara is actually fearless, naive and thickheaded enough, as well as a foreigner, to fill the role of quiet brute force type who just gets pointed in the direction of trouble by other people and fired like a guided lalafell cruise missile. She is industrious and obedient, unless angered, and thus would totally do random odd jobs for people, not really valuing prestige and never considering any kind of work beneath her.
However, some personality traits of hers would probably get in the way.
She has no connections to any of the Grand Companies or their city states and thus wouldn't feel obligated to join one of them.
A lot of scenes in which villains talk or otherwise grandstand, like Lahabrea, would probably end prematurely due to Virara bum rushing them. So it'd actually be kinda like those guys who start the last fight in Praetorium before you're done watching the cutscene.
"Ahahaha! You are strong, Warrior of Light. Yet know that if I should- wait, what are you doing!? Don't you care what happens to him! Stop that! Stop punching you minuscule imbecile, I'm trying to talk!"
She would have probably attempted to fight every Scion at least once, which really doesn't endear someone to you unless you're Hoary Boulder or Yda.
She would horribly bungle the quest where you have to disguise yourself. For one, there's like one other Imp Lala around and she's not him. It's unlikely she'd be able to act and would be found out immediately.
Virara lacks diplomatic acumen and would worsen relations with Ishgard if sent to represent Eorzea, despite her seeming politeness. At least taking her words at face value, Virara comes off as placating and modest, but really, she's just doing what she was trained to do and it shows. Though, the WoL was able to build bridges with only a few enigmatic nods and some help from her friends, so actually Virara might be the perfect girl for the job...
She tends to avoid attention, so using her as a heroic type or sending her to give others morale, which happens a lot in the MSQ after your win over the primals, would probably not work. On the other hand, it would explain why so many people initially don't recognize WoL or can't believe they killed primals or defeated countless imperial men and materiel.
Virara is phobic of typhoons and so would either fail to defeat Leviathan or would have to undergo considerable training and counseling to do it. I suppose she could blindfold herself...
In addition, for various reasons, it's possible key Doman NPCs would refuse her help entirely, unless Yugiri put in a good word for her, highly unlikely. So some MSQ content would have to be carried out by other Scions.
Virara also is one of the least likely candidates to receive echo, despite being written as being extremely strong, maybe even a different level of power entirely from a lot of the characters she's interacted with, by my perception anyway. It's a bad habit of mine; I like my heroes to be "Heroic" in the old sense, and can't really resist snowflaking, and yet the way I snowflaked *in* actually hamstrings Virara greatly as a WoL. It might say too much for me to explain why, though.
That being said, taking into account her *potential* strength ICly, Virara with the Echo would probably be able to accomplish a lot of the things that take place in the story, if maybe not as easily.
However, some personality traits of hers would probably get in the way.
She has no connections to any of the Grand Companies or their city states and thus wouldn't feel obligated to join one of them.
A lot of scenes in which villains talk or otherwise grandstand, like Lahabrea, would probably end prematurely due to Virara bum rushing them. So it'd actually be kinda like those guys who start the last fight in Praetorium before you're done watching the cutscene.
"Ahahaha! You are strong, Warrior of Light. Yet know that if I should- wait, what are you doing!? Don't you care what happens to him! Stop that! Stop punching you minuscule imbecile, I'm trying to talk!"
She would have probably attempted to fight every Scion at least once, which really doesn't endear someone to you unless you're Hoary Boulder or Yda.
She would horribly bungle the quest where you have to disguise yourself. For one, there's like one other Imp Lala around and she's not him. It's unlikely she'd be able to act and would be found out immediately.
Virara lacks diplomatic acumen and would worsen relations with Ishgard if sent to represent Eorzea, despite her seeming politeness. At least taking her words at face value, Virara comes off as placating and modest, but really, she's just doing what she was trained to do and it shows. Though, the WoL was able to build bridges with only a few enigmatic nods and some help from her friends, so actually Virara might be the perfect girl for the job...
She tends to avoid attention, so using her as a heroic type or sending her to give others morale, which happens a lot in the MSQ after your win over the primals, would probably not work. On the other hand, it would explain why so many people initially don't recognize WoL or can't believe they killed primals or defeated countless imperial men and materiel.
Virara is phobic of typhoons and so would either fail to defeat Leviathan or would have to undergo considerable training and counseling to do it. I suppose she could blindfold herself...
In addition, for various reasons, it's possible key Doman NPCs would refuse her help entirely, unless Yugiri put in a good word for her, highly unlikely. So some MSQ content would have to be carried out by other Scions.
Virara also is one of the least likely candidates to receive echo, despite being written as being extremely strong, maybe even a different level of power entirely from a lot of the characters she's interacted with, by my perception anyway. It's a bad habit of mine; I like my heroes to be "Heroic" in the old sense, and can't really resist snowflaking, and yet the way I snowflaked *in* actually hamstrings Virara greatly as a WoL. It might say too much for me to explain why, though.
That being said, taking into account her *potential* strength ICly, Virara with the Echo would probably be able to accomplish a lot of the things that take place in the story, if maybe not as easily.
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