All for Kat, don't mind Ryu.
Lara is weird. SE owns her. Sony owns some bit of SE. But then Sony has always been bad managing their own stuff between divisions, let alone such stretch like that. The new Tomb Raider is probably the reason we won't have Lara Croft. That's pretty much another reason for me to dislike it to be honest.
Be shocked if there isn't some Final Fantasy character, but its starting to look that way. Maybe they don't want to be stuck with Lightning, Cloud or Mr. Compensation? It'd be really cool to get some other character for once, but there'd likely be a lot of people whining then.