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Outside of his terrible introduction to the Party I kind of like Sten.
Stenpretty much got on my trout list for both being kind of annoying and his stupid quest where you had to use him. Didn't use Sten up until that point? Well it sucks to be you. I also just found him a mediocre party member, being the master of none character who can do a bit of everything but nothing well. His saving grace is the Shaman system.

But I give you Yoohoo. God she annoyed me. The only thing I liked about her character is if you went for her ending in the original Devil Survivor, the World ends. You know, exactly the thing you were told would happen but she insisted on doing anyway.

And she never stopped complaining. I mean I don't like Yukari because of how catty and passive aggressive she constantly was, but dear god they ramped it up for Yoohoo.
Yuzu pretty much ruined Devil Survivor for me, hell the main reason I didn't take one of the neutral options for once in this game was solely because I learned she leaves your group if you go Law or Chaos and I went out of my way to get on their paths after that point. Keisuke is the other character I despise from the game and I did make sure to "forget" to show up and save him from himself just because he was such a self-righteous asshole about everything.

And I may be one of the few people to stand up for Shion here. I think they took a very unique direction with her. A lot of times in video games you'll see people grow stronger after dealing with what the story throws at them, but in reality a lot of people end up like she did.

As life keeps raining more and more trout on her head, she doesn't become a nice person as a result of that, in stark contrast you start to see that part of Shion die off. She goes through a change that you don't see protagonists go through in a story, and yet it's a perfectly natural and understandable thing that could happen. In it's own way I think the story of Shion as a character is rather fascinating.
I would agree that Shion was a unique character in her portrayal but she has such smurfed up priorities that it makes going through the trilogy very difficult. I mean there is like a dozen moments in each entry where she jeopardizes everything to save the wrong people. I mean KOS-MOS is built up as a god-killing machine, but Shion treats her like a new born babe; and I get the emotional sentiment and the whole reincarnated heavy lesbian undertones of their background, but my god dear, you've built this machine to fight an eldritch horror and you're acting like an over-protective soccer mom. Get your trout together and stop endangering everyone else's lives because you don't trust KOS-MOS to do the things you built her to do. It just gets on my nerves, yes she had a horrible life and I get they were trying to show the good, bad, and ugly of her, but I feel her bad traits shined through way better than her very few good traits.