I'm specifically talking about the thing Fates(?) started and Engage continued where it's like. It seems like the writers are adamant about "We Must Have Royals that are Evenly Spread across the relevant kingdoms, and Each Royal must have TWO RETAINERS. TWO and ONLY TWO."
Like.
Come on.
That's never how things work.
I want more characters like Guy FE7, who are just. "I happened to get hired by the guys that are your enemy, but there's this guy Matthew I technically owe a life debt to because he gave me food one time."
I don't care if it's the same backstory that leads to the recruitment
I want more of things like. Grunk wanders into a castle while there happens to be a battle going on, and you can recruit Grunk on turn 1 with Johnathan because they happen to know each other from when Grunk approached Johnathan begging for food.
Is it so hard to ask for more random guys that had no bearing on the plot until they just showed up?
There's literally Two characters in Engage that are random guys from the main story and it's Yunaka and Seadall. No, Lindon and Saphir don't count - they were former retainers-or-whatever to their respective royal houses.
