Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3006074-20180119014410/@comment-4141313-20180606183932

Sentry 616 wrote: As for the orignal point, I think that the team comp could work, but that Ilia probably wouldn't be interested.

Reset the clock to derailment. Of course. I figured the question was already answered, I was just wondering why we derailed so much.

73.Anon.52 wrote: ...even the main plot aside from Blake, she shouldn't stay with the main party for that long. Again, I raise these points in regards to the main plot.

In-Universe:

1. She would wish to help out Blake and may desire to stay by her side.

2. She has a personal connection to Mantle and Atlas and as such may go there to face her demons.

3. The Heroes need all the help they can get and considering their party consists of 8 trainee huntsmen, one farmboi that hasn't fully adapted to the old man living inside him, and a perpetually drunk huntsman that can easily butt heads with Ironwood and has little faith in his own decision making skills when not blindly following Oz, they could use another fighter if only to give them another fighter.

Out-Of-Universe:

1. They laid the groundwork for a plotline involving Atlas and Ilia after detailing her backstory.

2. They've been building her up for a volume and a half and are unlikely to push her aside (In contrast to Neptune who they only built on for the equivalent of one arc and then pushed to the background)