Because the color quota of the world was used up to make the mountains not pink.

Why does everyone act like badmouthing Rosa and ignoring her strong points is awesome and acceptable, but the second someone breathes a word of criticism about Rydia, they're chastised for it?


(No seriously. If you want to skip this and take it to another thread then okay, but I'm tired of seeing "Cecil could have done better than Rosa" or "Rosa's a wimpy, clingy, stupid, whiny, *et cetera et cetera* DiD and stereotypical white mage" and my every attempt to debunk it and highlight her strong points being cast down as inconsequential, all while everyone else does the same with Rydia and is perfectly FINE with it. It's bad enough that the fans' dislike of her reaches to the point where Square-Enix is doing what they can to get her out of the picture in The After and hyping up Rydia everywhere they can, is it REALLY necessary to kick the girl when she's dead?)