Talk:Jericho Colon/@comment-24.93.143.205-20170113063017/@comment-27031093-20170115080302

None of the optional characters participate in the story past their recruitment. Necai has a short quest that she's involved in before you can get her, but Jericho and Bernard both just show up when you get their recruitment papers. Jericho and especially Bernard both have pretty funny lines and attack names in battle, but they'll quickly wear out their welcome as soon as they start switching in when you don't want them to during a long and difficult fight. You can sell them both into prostitution for a handful of gold each later, though, so it's not all bad.

In 03, all the optional characters are garbage, but they differ from each other like this:

Necai: Low level cap and weak stats but a special ability that increases item drop rates that is a necessity for speeding up an annoying post game quest. The only one with any real use.

Bernard: Low level cap but decent starting stats and moves with low cooldowns that make him a viable character roughly on par with (but still slightly below) your other damage dealers when you first get him. His stat growths are abysmal, though (he gets +1 strength every level when Milli gets a +8), so he'll quickly become completely useless beyond being a meat shield (his HP is naturally higher than everyone but Feliss and Rick), but that's almost never necessary in 03's combat system.

Jericho: Tiny level cap, horrible stats (starts with 1 strength, gains +1 every level), horrible moves (her most basic attack has a 1 turn cooldown time despite most basic attacks having no cooldown times at all) and can be beaten in a single hit by the enemies in the first dungeon.

If you're looking for more from Jericho as an actual character, 01 actually gives her a decent chunk of screentime despite her just being an NPC in it. She's cute and funny.