Quick question; how do you all feel about the characters so far?
I like some of them, a lot of them have interesting personalities and designs, but some I just can't stand.
Soleil comes to mind. Her gimmick is that she's kind of homosexual.
The writing in her supports are potentially my least favorite dialogue in both this game and Awakening.
I'm fine with having a lesbian character, but they just ruin her and run that one gimmick into the ground (not to mention you can't marry even her as a female). It is a huge chore to read through any of her supports (except the ones with her father, Lazward/Inigo, but that is because his dialogue is really well done).
Foleo (Leo's son) is also pretty grating (also due to one gimmick [I look like a girl] being repeated over and over).
Anyways, there's a few characters left who's writing and personality I really like.
Xander and Leo both have really good dialogue, personally, and while I'm not much of a fan of Xander's design, I really like Leo's (although he has a character-corrupting child tumor).
Lazward, again, probably has the best-written dialogue (I like all the Awakening children's dialogue, except Severa, I can't stand the whole "tsundere" thing).
He's got a very interesting backstory and design, although his daughter is also some kind of character-tumor he can't escape.