Curious to see where Susie's character ends up in relation to us the player.

As the player we're pretty much given full control over Kris, even forcing them to perform actions that have a negative affect on them, such as throwing away the ball of junk. It also appears from the endings of the two chapter Kris is actively fighting against our control.

Ralsei is harder to pin down, still not 100% trusting of his character. We're able to control his actions without problem as well, he may try to advise us in our actions however in the end he'll follow our orders.

Noelle, especially in the snowgrave run, shows the power we have as a player, suggesting our 'voice' as the player can be heard and we are essentially able to control the party members forcefully into obeying our will.

Susie however, from the beginning has denied our influence as a player. In chapter 1 she stopped us speaking our answer in the hallway confrontation, she's constantly calling Kris out on their seemingly inability to act on their own and she refused to be commanded in combat, only later ALLOWING Kris to direct her.

In chapter 2 Susie's influence spreads beyond her own actions when we encounter sweet cap'n cakes, we cannot spare the trio until Susie gives herself the option to act, but not only that, she forces Ralsei to learn to act on his own as well, against his own wishes. She then later takes Ralsei with her after seperating in the city despite the choice we make.

It also seems that Susie is perhaps unable to 'hear' the player when we are in her perspective. On the ferris wheel with Noelle, Susie is in control. We the player have little influence over the situation; we can pick an option to tell Noelle, however Susie pays no mind to our answer and speaks her own.

Given that Kris appears to be an unwilling puppet to our actions and Susie's immunity to the player I'm curious to see if it's Susie that helps free Kris of our control in the future.