Dalii has her relationships with the Scions and the military and political leaders in different parts of Eorzea, the things they've done together, and the things that have happened, but there are smaller players and places on the stage who have left their own particular impressions.
FOULQUES OF THE MIST
Dalii spent much of her time in the Lancers' Guild carrying sacks of bait meat out to the woods in order to get attacked by wild beasts, and carrying sacks of bait meat out to the woods while getting negged by a weird belligerent Duskwight named Foulques, shortly before getting attacked by wild beasts. Or Foulques.
It wasn't until their final battle that Foulques revealed there had been more to him than violence, threats, and aggression. He had once made a good decision, and because he was a Duskwight, it ruined his life. Dalii admittedly thinks Foulques could have told her about this history at any point before his headlong dive from the deep end, but she wonders how things would have gone if she had taken the initiative earlier and asked him why he so despised the guild. She doesn't know if she could have saved him, but she wishes she had tried.
She rarely visits the Lancers' Guild now. And in the days after the Bloody Banquet, she found herself thinking often of his parting words: It is only a matter of time before they betray you, just like those wretches who saw me imprisoned and exiled.
MOTHER MIOUNNE
Mother Miounne gave Dalii her grounding in how to be a good, responsible adventurer. Gridania being a difficult place to get along in for anyone who isn't Gridanian (and the right kind of Gridanian at that), Dalii is grateful that Miounne takes it upon herself to provide new adventurers a safe landing. She often stops into the Canopy for a cup of tea, and sometimes for Miounne's sad stories in the woods.
STORM SERGEANT SWYGRAEL
Swygrael, Overlook's Storm Sergeant with a number of dubious ideas, can be fairly credited from saving Dalii Yagaan from the clutches of the Empire after Titan's defeat. Mostly because she kept flirting with Dalii while asking her to stuff couerls into sacks and such, which kept Dalii at Camp Overlook for quite a while before returning to the Waking Sands.
CAMP DRYBONE
Hiding out in a lichyard church after bringing the bodies of multiple comrades there, helping a boy scrape up funds to buy his sister a gravestone, and delivering cookies to a priest who was taken back to the days when he still had a living family sure left a mark on her and while you're not going to hear her talk about it, she is going to become instantly unimpressed if you stand in your big fancy house and complain about how you'll get less inheritence as a second son. for example. emmanelain.
LAURENTIUS
The Wood Wailers might have poor labor practices, but that's not a justification for attempting to sell your entire country to a brutal empire that dropped a massive celestial object on the planet. His jelly-like collapse after being thrashed by a combined force of Dalii, bandits, and poachers really did not improve Dalii's opinion of him in the slightest. But when she met him again out of jail, she recalled how she failed to give Foulques a chance. Their offenses were different and Laurentius was never wronged in the way Foulques was, but Dalii nevertheless overrode her own better judgement and recruited him into the Crystal Braves.
This decision is one of her fiercest, angriest regrets. And in any given fight with a blue-coated cadre, Dalii will ignore all the other participants to make a beeline for the leopard who did not change his shorts, with no other goal than to hit him in the face very hard until he falls over.
Osaulie
Osaulie was a child who survived the cold and unforgiving streets of the Brume with quick wits and quick fingers until one night proved simply too cold to outsmart. It was, in fact, the night after Dalii and her companions assailed the Vault, fighting their way through the Heavens' Ward and their summoned powers. When Dalii was informed of Osaulie's death the next day, she wondered--in the Wards' battle, how much had they drained of the city's people? Did Osaulie sleep just a little too deeply, were her shivers just weak enough to keep the cold from claiming her? Dalii doesn't know, and she knows that she will never know. But when recounting the sorrows of that day, Osaulie's fate is high among them.