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Favorite group of Heroes OCs?

Or at least the group that's least meh.

And for the sake of keeping all groups sizable, let's make it:
Askr+Emblia (aka all of book I) vs Nifl vs Muspel (and Loki doesn't count as muspel)

I don't think that the idea behind most of the characters is horrible, but most of the time the story structure isn't helping things.

Now for me:
I'm not a big fan of any character, but I don't hate anyone either. Exept maybe Loki.

Nifl takes first place. Even though most of em are pretty bland, I do love the asthetics and themes of the nifl group.
Fjorm and Gunnthra are probably the lesser two of the group since they don't seem to have much of a personallity at all.
At least with Hrid you get the sense of a calm, soft but strong person. Even if he gets shafted by the story (Why couldn't he save the day in the end!? Missing chances here)
Ylgr is fine too. Usually not into the cute small girls, but she's kinda funny. Like a snow rabbit, if snow rabbits liked caffine and talked too much.

Second place is Askr+Emblia
Askr IS the most boring of the factions. Sharena is kinda fun, but Alfonse.. He has a lot of glimmers of character, but it never leads to something. He has potential, but he needs some more permanent change to his character.
Anna is never important, in serious parts she's the info dumb. And her brand of humor isn't my thing.

It gets saved from the last spot by the Emblia siblings. With Bruno being kinda cool and accually doing things most of the time. Though he is hurt by being shoved to the sidelines in book II. Hopefully he'll have a role in book III
Veronica is kinda interesting as a villain that's just bored, but not pure evil. That makes her a better character than (urgh) Surtr.

Speaking of:
Last place Muspel. Not that the places are very far off.
But my big distaste is in two parts;
First Surtr being Garon 0.5 He should have been a force of nature antagonist. Someone you almost never see and only when he really does things. But instead he hogs all the screentime being generic AF. He just loses all chance.
And second is the deaths of Helbindi and Leagjarn. It kinda feels like disposing of unneeded characters. Helbindi is pretty much a generic brute with a heart of gold. Likable, but generic. Leagjarn is more a Camus archtype. Not bad in isolation, but we have better examples. And neither will get development now.
Not a big fan of Leavateinn, but she has at least potential now.

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Askr Trio by far is number 1 for me. I find their personalities fun even though we don't know too much about them personally. Hopefully they will be in the spotlight again for future chapters. Alfonse is the killjoy who tries to be as adult as possible. Sharena is having a fun even if she has no oxygen. Anna takes things too far which lets her lead the dynamic. I actually enjoyed them and am still sad I have no spring Sharena.

Probably the Muspell people. I dont really like any of them but Helbindi and Laegjarn carry them. Even still those two arent the most interesting.

Nilf is last because holy hell are they all boring.

I guess Muspell for me solely because of Laegjarn, the only OC I actually like. And Laevatein is okay. The rest I don't care about at all.

Least favorite for me are Askr trio and Veronica, Alfonse and Veronica are just plain boring to me. And Sharena well I really just don't like her voice and thus causing me to skip all her dialogue and in the process end up not caring about her character just like the other 2. Different reasoning but same end result.

My favorite is Muspell cuz besides surtr the characters are actually pretty well defined and have personalities and flaws as well as strengths. They feel more fleshed out anf more human than the other groups and much more relatable

agree with you about almost everything except alfonse. i think he has a better development as character in the story
fashion wise, i love nifl. especially the color choices. the same goes for askr

Yeah, Alfonse is on the edge for me.
I feel like he needs a bit more, but he is the character I have the most hopes for.
Especially since book III seems to be more focussed on the askr duo instead of a new cast of characters.

Yeah, I love Nifl's style, that's what won it first place for me.
In general the artist's style is what keeps some characters from being completely forgettable

yes. i hope that too. im okay with getting legendary alfonse (or sharena or both) for an openning for book 3
but i doubt that will happen

askr and nifl uniforms (?) have resemblances (gold and white colors)
i like em the most too