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"Y...Ye want me tae put my gun in wot?"

Meiko will do whatever Tataru asks of her. Promotion? Design share? Doesn't matter. She asks no questions.

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This is 100% what Meiko would do for anyone

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My brother is playing through the 7.3 Dungeon, and he goes "This villain is stupid. He's not 'weakening' me, he's warming me up!" And that's very Hiko of him.

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it's blurry but this photo my bro sent me of Hiko about to do the Crescent stuff perfectly encapsulates his character

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Mei can be quite generous, but with a healthy dose of skepticism that allows her to dodge most shady individuals' attempts at getting something from her.

A'kihiko is definitely over-generous and a bit naïve, which is why he ends up being the errand boy for most people, even if they mean well. He continues to be the shonen protagonist archetype, even well into Dawntrail.

How generous is your WoL? Especially to those they don’t know?

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E T H E I R I A L — ❝ [ . . . ] For we who walk before may lead those who walk after. Your road goes ever on, as does your story. ❞ — independent & mutuals only multimuse rp blog featuring y'shtola rhul ( & more ! ) from FINAL FANTASY 14.

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ready for bermuda triangle

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Earlier in her journey, Meiko was quick to kill anyone that threatened her or her allies. It was what she was taught! End them first. Her experience with Fray did not soften that resolve.

Towards the end of main Shadowbringers, however, Meiko... tries to be gentler. Tries to show mercy, to appeal to reason -- but often still has to use lethal force. By the end of Endwalker, Meiko is much less heavy-handed with her violence, especially when she's more public-facing as a Scion and Warrior of Light. But if you cross her, she'll end you. She knows she's pretty OP in Dawntrail.

What is your WoL's opinion on killing others?

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"Nah, 'course. Just -- we have tae manage both. The First is -- well. First." She hand a hand through her hair, and higher still, absently tugging on her ears. "Just -- afore this, 'twas all my brother's doin'. Aye, everyone did their part, but..."

Her voice trailed off. She struggled for a moment to put it into words.

"When Hiko was... called away, afore the conflict -- it -- none of ye were there tae see the morale disappear. The soldiers, e'en Raubahn. Eorzea's Champion, th'Warrior o'Light was gone. I was all that was left out o'all of us." Her gaze dropped to her lap. "We've saved city-states. Liberated nations. No small feat, mind, but... this is all that's left o'an entire world. And our own world's fate is atop that. Never mind that all o'you depend on me bein' able tae -- tae do whatever's asked o'me here. And I'll do it, I will, but goin' from nigh wee more than assistin' tae havin' all that on me... s'fuckin' terrifyin'."

“Saving the First is a top priority,” Thancred said in a no-nonsense kind of voice that left no room for argument. “Getting back to the Source is important, of course,” – they had left at a rather bad time, to put it lightly – “but the Exarch must have told you what Urianger saw.”

Another Calamity striking Eorzea, so close in time to the last one, a Calamity that would take the life of the Warrior of Light and his sister.

Thancred wasn’t interested in having his soul never reunite with his body, but he could recognize that it was more important to make sure the Calamity never happen. The lives of countless Eorzeans – including that of Meiko and A’kihiko – would be saved if they could just prevent the Calamity from happening in the first place.

“I don’t mean to say I’m not interested in returning to the Source, it’s just that...I can recognize there is more at stake than my corporeal form,” he explained.

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Meiko shook her head.

" 'Tween Kan-E-senna's assessment an' Krile's ministrations, we knew your souls went missin'," she answered slowly. "Which... is no what one wants tae hear. Bein' asleep's one thing, but lackin' a soul -- we knew 'twas a matter o'time until your bodies went cold." She paused. "...It's still that way, though. Krile an' th'others are doin' their best tae slow it, but..."

Her gaze dropped down to her lap.

"I need tae get everyone back tae th'Source as soon as possible. Savin' th'First is important, aye, but it won't mean shite if you're all lost in th'process. Eorzea still needs its Scions. An' its proper Champion."

“I imagine it was,” Thancred said sympathetically. He understood – the two years here before Urianger and Y’shtola had shown up were rough, despite the Exarch’s attempts to make it more habitable for him. “I, at least, knew what was going on. No comatose friends for me.

“Tell me,” he continued. “We all just dropped like flies, did we? And you had no idea what was going on?” No one had directly told him, but he was given to understand that his body laid on the Source, completely catatonic, along with the others’ – but not Meiko’s. She was actually here somehow; the Exarch had finally managed to get his target.