Wakka is the best character, discuss

[Pete for President]

Um. You're missing the point. You don't have to agree with a character's views for the character to be good from a writing and technical standpoint. Plenty of villains are fantastically well-done characters. Stories would be incredibly boring if they weren't. This is how characters work. They are supposed to illicit an emotional response from people.

The fact that he really gets to you this much is more just proof that he was a really well done character.

Yes but those are Villains. They are supposed to be sinister and negative, it's apart of what makes being a Villains work.

Yes characters can't be perfect otherwise they'll be a damn Mary/ Gary Stu but something like racism goes too damn far and it's one of the main reasons why he's hugely unlikeable in my personal opinion.

Have fun with the characters of Teletubbies or My Little Pony or whatever story takes place in a world all fun and games.

Wakka being racist is no reason one wouldn't be able to relate to him. We're all racist in one way or another. And that's not because we particularly want to, but that is how society shapes us. Exactly what happened to Wakka. He's closer to all of us than you think, though he's be a bit more extreme. Which is pretty normal considering the world is full of death and misery.

In closing I leave you with this delightful message I found on Tumblr today:

Wakka gets a lot of crap for being a bigoted dingle douche, and while that may be true for the first part of the game, let us keep in mind that his attitude is the result of years of conditioning by Yevon. Yevon made a point to convince the people of Spira that the only way to get Sin to stop terrorizing their world for good— the only way for their loved ones to stop dying— was to atone for their regressions. Machina is one of those regressions, by Yevon decree, and the Al Bhed are machina-crazy, therefore, the logical conclusion there is that the Al Bhed are “supporting” Sin, in a roundabout way. Wakka wasn’t going out of his way to be hateful, he was simply guided by hope for a world without Sin, and fear that that world could never come about if people like Rikku were left unchecked.

^ this, my friends, is good characterization.

Agreed.