Forging bonds vs the "story" in FEH

It would be great if the Askr guys got a forging bonds event, but I'm pretty sure they wouldn't say anything interesting other than the stuff they've told us before. Alfonse is a pretty typical protag, and Sharena is the peppy younger sister, then there's Anna who isn't really different from her other iterations. I didn't really expect anything from heroes when it came to story, it's the game play and community that really shine. I would favor a forging bonds event of characters from older games more than oc's. Either way I'm content.

Yea.. Alfonse and Sharena are pretty flat characters. I agree that the Forging Bonds event definitely has better development for the featured characters, a focus on the Askr trio would be interesting to see, maybe once in a while. But IS probably would rather make the monthly events centered around whatever new heroes banner that's currently featured because it seems like its kinda a marketing tool to plug "x" banner to try to get players interested in said characters to want to pull/buy orb packs for it, especially if they know nothing about the characters.

If they really want to actually make Alfonse and Sharena interesting, I personally would like to see them write darker stuff involving the trio. Ok maybe not as dark as Geanology, but I can see they are trying to with the murder of Gunnthra.. which was still really bad because we really knew nothing about her! I don't know.. maybe have Alfonse start acting differently from having ptsd from the wars.. like getting hooked on orb cocaine made from broken down summoning orb dust, and start changing from a polite well mannered prince to a vile despicable womanizing fuck boy, aggressively hitting on all the princesses that have joined the Order and sleeping with some that gave in to his despacito, maybe impregnating say Eirika, Priscilla, Nanna, Elise, Effie? Then his approval ratings suddenly plummets for obvious reasons and he gets beat up by the armored dudes like Hector, Draug, Arden, Zelgius.. oh yea and Ephriam, Xander, Raven and Lief join in on curb stomping him because.. well he boofed their sisters (Lief not really but I dunno what the hell they have going on there) and gets kicked out of the castle and goes on to become.. the Nameless Brazen Hobo.

Sharena falls into deep grief over her brother's troubles and gets into a toxic nsa sexual relationship with Raigh for months and is addicted to stamina potions. After a realization of her ugly lifestyle, she ends up joining a nunnery and becomes one of the first armored healer clerics.

Anna is in complete denial and mentally forces herself into oblivious ignorance and warps herself to the FE game coming out after Three Houses.

All three new alt units of Alfonse, Sharena and Anna will be featured on the new banner after the Muspell Generals banner

I feel like there are aspects of Alfonse and Sherena that are pretty interesting, but they do not come in focus often enough.

I feel like the forging bond events are probably quite a bit easier to write, they don't have to move any plot forward.
And Surtr as villain was quite a mistake, there's not much you can do with him
As for the 'saving' of the story, the story's quality depents on the villains, Veronica was ok but very simple, Surtr was a more unlikable Garon (at least Garon had backstory), but the next arc wil hopefully center around Loki or the faction Loki's from

And I think the best parts of the story/side stories were from Loki (and Helbindi)

edit:
Why I think Alfonse at least isn't horrible.
I like how he's accually kinda smart, saving the villages and generally being a tacticly sound leader in the story. It's just that the story structure is so meh that it is hard to follow sometimes.
'stuff happends, we fight>stuff happends, we fight'

Another thing:

I would love for the banner character to have more to do with the story instead of being fodder.

I think it has happened twice now, one time with Seth and Xander discussing the latter's loyalty for Veronica.
The second was with Katarina, luring the team into a trap.

My hope is that book III introduces a villain character that likes to talk with the 'fodder' characters.

Most uninteresting main characters? Rowan and Lianna would like to have a word with you. E̶p̶h̶r̶a̶i̶m̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶E̶i̶r̶i̶k̶a̶,̶ ̶t̶o̶o̶.

I'm not really sure if tea hunting can be considered better than the main story, though that isn't really saying that much. But I do see what you mean. The Brave Heroes one was much better and probably the most interesting story driven section we've had in this game in a while. What I like about Forging Bonds is that it gives us more about the character than just a couple voice lines, even if some character's tropes overshadow their actual development (I'm looking at you, Nina).

Regarding FEH's story as a whole, it's been picking up. I'm not going to call it earth-shattering writing, but stuff is happening now. Surtr was an effective villain who had his time, and now Loki is shaping up to be the (or at least a) next major antagonist. I can especially appreciate what the story has been doing for Alfonse. When Heroes first started out, he was about as interesting as a feature-length viewing of paint drying, but now he's doing stuff. Unfortunately on the other end, Sharena has been a static "nice bubbly girl." Not quite boring, but not really going anywhere. I hope that changes, too.

Now, I'm not going to expect a phenomenal story out of this. For any mobile game not named Fate/Grand Order, I don't look for a compelling story and I'm fine if I don't get one, but Heroes is finally picking up some ground.