To be fair, I did also talk to the Troian soldier (another pink silk bikini and loincloth sprite) who says she's not a "two-gil dancer," and there's the old lady who says huffily that she's a chancellor. So they're there as well.

But *waves hands* the other npcs tend to undercut them.

I could tell Square was trying to show that "women can be strong too, no really" much like Boris Vallejo thinks he's portraying strong women while draping them in tinsel and glue and posing them for the male gaze.

There was just mixed messages.