Quote Originally Posted by Darius View Post
Most characters can be considered that, though, if you REALLY want to look at it as optional. Once your in the WoR, the only characters you really get before the airship are Celes, Sabin, Setzer and (I think) Edgar. Everyone else is optional as far as beating the game. And it is possible to beat the game with only 3 characters. So getting all the others are, as you mentioned, optional. Sure gogo and umaro dont have back stories and arent considered "main characters" but they are still joinable characters that once you have, you always have. They are optional as well, you just dont find out much, at all, about their history.
Actually the only characters required in the WoR are Celes, Edgar, and Setzer. Just 3 characters. Sabin is completely optional as well. In case you didn't notice... beat the game and see all the cut scenes. Basically every cut scene has Edgar, Celes, or Setzer... or some combination of them. Just something interesting I noticed. I was planning to go back through at some point and beat the game using all sorts of combinations to see what endings I would see, such as Relm without Strago, but I never actually did.

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