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Your reasoning for Astra fulfilling the \\\"glue\\\" role is tenuous -- she literally holds the team together, but only because Hiante and Erio are literally bound to serve her. She doesn\\\'t actively hold the team together using her own skills -- at least, not more than anyone else does.
Snowe being a leader of his people is irrelevant to the actual trope. TheHero has to be the explicit leader of the group. Merely having leadership experience doesn\\\'t qualify a character for the position.
Hiante is a GeniusBruiser, and his knowledge is more background characterization than an actual skill. He is more akin to TheBigGuy for most of the story. Relenia \\\'\\\'is\\\'\\\' the closest fit to the role you gave, I will give you that, but one could also say she fits the role of TheSmartGuy in that she\\\'s the one who knows the most about the state of the temple and the Sepulcher in the early game, even if she doesn\\\'t actually know that much.
I\\\'m confused by what you mean by never having a FaceHeelTurn = not a SixthRanger? Are you confusing it with the SixthColumn trope? The SixthRanger is explicitly on the heroes\\\' side, but the difference between them and TheLancer is that the Lancer is often part of the main group. Erio is usually off doing his own thing since he\\\'s not well-suited to combat ([[GameplayAndStorySegregation or so he claims]]), and only supports from the sidelines when he does join the main group. The detachment from the main group is the defining trait of the SixthRanger, which is why I felt Erio fit that role better than TheLancer.
Anyway, the main problem here is that the characters don\\\'t fit neatly into the roles. They all share the roles and fulfill multiple ones. Astra may hold the group together, but she\\\'s also the most headstrong and dauntless -- traits of TheHero -- plus she\\\'s a powerful fighter, a trait of TheBigGuy. Hiante is wise and soft-spoken, but a powerful bodyguard, again overlapping with TheBigGuy. Erio, as you\\\'ve said, can be interpreted as a Lancer, while I interpret him as more of a SixthRanger. The characters alternate between roles rather than assigning one to each, so trying to fit them into each role seems a bit like {{Square Peg Round Trope}}ry.
Snowe being a leader of his people is irrelevant to the actual trope. TheHero has to be the explicit leader of the group. Merely having leadership experience doesn\\\'t qualify a character for the position.
Hiante is a GeniusBruiser, and his knowledge is more background characterization than an actual skill. He is more akin to TheBigGuy for most of the story. Relenia \\\'\\\'is\\\'\\\' the closest fit to the role you gave, I will give you that, but one could also say she fits the role of TheSmartGuy in that she\\\'s the one who knows the most about the state of the temple and the Sepulcher in the early game, even if she doesn\\\'t actually know that much.
I\\\'m confused by what you mean by never having a FaceHeelTurn = not a SixthRanger? Are you confusing it with the SixthColumn trope? The SixthRanger is explicitly on the heroes\\\' side, but the difference between them and TheLancer is that the Lancer is often part of the main group. Erio is usually off doing his own thing since he\\\'s not well-suited to combat ([[GameplayAndStorySegregation or so he claims]]), and only supports from the sidelines when he does join the main group. The detachment from the main group is the defining trait of the SixthRanger, which is why I felt Erio fit that role better than TheLancer.
Anyway, the main problem here is that the characters don\\\'t fit neatly into the roles. They all share the roles and fulfill multiple ones. Astra may hold the group together, but she\\\'s also the most headstrong and dauntless -- traits of TheHero -- plus she\\\'s a powerful fighter, a trait of TheBigGuy. Hiante is wise and soft-spoken, but a powerful bodyguard, again overlapping with TheBigGuy. Erio, as you\\\'ve said, can be interpreted as a Lancer, while I interpret him as more of a SixthRanger. The characters alternate between roles rather than assigning one to each, so trying to fit them into each role seems a bit like {{Square Peg Round Trope}}ry.
