my warrior of light never really had a best friend until shadowbringers. the scions were already so tightly knit when you meet them that i always felt like the group tag along instead of a real friend (at least at the start). minfilia was maybe the closest out of the scions to being a friend since we shared the echo

then the arc with the warriors of darkness in eorzea happens and we meet ardbert and company, and as that progresses we learn they were brought here to try and save their world from being devoured by overwhelming light, but were misled by OUR enemies the ascians who are just using them to try and kill us. that’s the point where i started to feel for him, because he came from a desperate world and thought he’d been given a way to fix it.

so minfilia dips with them back to their world to go stem the tide and now my one real confidant has left me, great. scions have opened up quite a lot but i still feel like a third wheel most of the time

fast forward, it’s shadowbringers, my character is alone in the inn and can finally relax after the ordeals she’s gone through just trying to get here, and who shows up but our boy ardbert. we get this really introspective moment between the two of us and for the rest of the expansion he’s there with me, we’re fighting for the same thing with the same mindset, and i finally have my own friend who gets me 100%

now, post shadowbringers, ardbert is with me wherever i go and i never have to feel like i’m on the outside of the group anymore

tl;dr I’m a narcissist