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Aiddon on 30 June 2011
darkknightkryta said:
Aiddon said:

No, he was pretty much forced to make Vaan and Penelo on the spot because management thought that fans couldn't relate to Basch who was in his thirties (as well as cool, mysterious, and competent; hmmm, I'm starting to believe Square thinks we're all losers). You could actually yank both of those kids out of the storyline and it would have no consequence. Vaan was not meant to show this through the eyes of a commoner, he was made because of idiot executives who insist that they know how to make characters. Turns out that they were proven wrong. He was a  meangingless character in a boring, mediocre game with a crappy plot

Yes I was relooking and saw that tidbit about Vaan, but Matsuno wrote them in there himself and wrote the story around it.  Taken from Watanabe who finished the script, said this about it: "A dignified drama about Ivalice's nobility, viewed through the eyes of a commoner."  It could very well have been Matsuno who felt there should have been a change, and we'll never know.

Again, this is not some unknown secret, it's VERY well-known that Matsuno had no intention of ever making Vaan and Penelo and the comment about "looking through the eyes of a commoner" was nothing more than a thinly veiled excuse to try and justify those two kids' existence in the plot. A protagonist who doesn't contribute anything is poor writing through and through. It was not HIS intention, he was forced to do it since Square thought plyaers couldn't relate to Basch, showing that they have a very cookie-cutter idea of what makes a protagonist relatable.