Luke starts as everything you hate, and the show knows exactly what it's doing. By the time you understand what he actually is, every choice he made stops being stupid and starts being tragic. The slow burn pays off because the character work is patient enough to let you hate him first, then grieve for him later, and that shift happens inside you, not because the plot demands it.

Luke fon Fabre, son of a duke of Kimlasca, has been shut inside his family's mansion for seven years, ever since the Malkuth Empire kidnapped him. The ordeal wiped out his earlier memories, and a strange voice that no one else can hear keeps calling to him. During a sword lesson with his mentor Van, a woman named Tear forces her way in to kill Van. Luke steps in, and the clash sends him and Tear far from home. In a world governed by the Score, an ancient set of prophecies, and torn by war between Kimlasca and Malkuth, their trip home grows into something far larger that will upend all Luke believes about himself.