I was told to come over to the Wakka thread and re-iterate a point I made in the Game of Thrones thread about how introducing a character who exemplifies some negative quality (such as Wakka's religious zealotry) is not an endorsement of that attitude or a sign that it is a bad character...

But I really just wanted to chime in and express my thoughts that Wakka's development is ham-fisted, dull, and predictable. He is one of my least favorite characters in the game, because I feel he contributes very little to the game beyond comedic relief. I can at least give the writers credit for attempting to roll the obligatory comic relief character in with another trope, which, I guess, is more interesting than solely embodying just one or the other.