#But imo Scarlett was written first and foremost as the main love interest

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Probably the reason Scarlett is more concerned about her duty to serve Alain than the people of Albion because it's a higher calling. I don't remember whether or not it's literally divinely mandated, but she chose to serve the world and not just Albion.

Didn't Scarlett choose to join the party when we free her, and from her side it's more in the lines of "I'll follow Alain" and none of that saviour thing ?

Divinely mandated ? Wdym ?

I thought Arant asked her 8 years old self to find and guide the "saviour" but once again, this is only revealed in the Albion exposition dumps. Maybe it's an issue of localised scripts or something, but when Scarlett says to her feathered friends she always thought about them when reuniting in Albion...

That was not the image of her I had in mind when her only scene of importance in Drakengard, aka before reaching Albion, is her shopping, and while I know supports are locked to regions for plot purposes, but her last convo with Alain is locked in Elheim and we have zilch about the "saviour" subplot or even Albion and its people.

Heck that subplot could have been alluded to there :

Scarlett could have told him why she was sent away at this precise moment but... No.

Fwiw her last Chloe convo treats her past in Albion a bit, but thing is, Scarlett being Arant's daughter and the princess who will come to rule/govern/oversee Albion, its people and the Orthodoxy is completely ignored before reaching, well, Albion.

Hell, the only mentions are in the Alain checking up on her convo where her "princess" status is brought up because she was a brat and complained the random church she was sheltered in was not as magnificent as the palace she was raised up in...

I really wanted to like Scarlett, but damn if her writing makes it hard to do so and doesn't reek of "Quick let's cook some plot reason to make her plot important to make her the main love interest because writing her so far as the ojou type feels kind of flat !"