Thancred's Eye (possible) spoiler

So this was brought up with my FC recently, but do you ever think SE will let us know what is going on with Thancred's eye? It seems his visit to the First might of "fixed" things, but could we get some confirmation on the subject.

It was injured, it got better, he kept the eyepatch to look cool.

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Originally Posted by Wyssahtyn

It was injured, it got better, he kept the eyepatch to look cool.

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Eye's physically cannot heal like that. If your eye gets lighter because of illness or injury, it'll stay the lighter color forever. While people are "stating" the patch was to look "cool" it's currently a plot hole the devs have yet to address.

I'd chalk it up to 'magic' as their excuse. That said I think the writers just generally forgot about Thancred's old HW look because he was MIA for most of Stormblood and the patches leading up to Shadowbringers. Though this isn't the only time the colors haven't matched. Taking a look over at Garland tools shows his swatches have been all over the place since ARR - and not just in a 'he got a tan then lost it' sort of way.

This was mentioned in the MSQ a long time ago, I think back in HW. Yshtola was teasing thancred about wearing it and he basically said his eye is fine and he does it to look cool.

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Originally Posted by Alien_Gamer

This was mentioned in the MSQ a long time ago, I think back in HW. Yshtola was teasing thancred about wearing it and he basically said his eye is fine and he does it to look cool.

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But that's a similar situation to Y'shtola lying about her blindness slowly killing her. To be fair, we know what the color change signifies, it would just be nice if the Devs acknowledged it more. Especially, with the weird model shifts Thancred has gone through. When he returned from the First, he still should've looked like his HW/SB model not the ShB one, but that's probably a Dev oversight. Then again, I think his Trust glamour uses that model, so it's anyone's guess.

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Originally Posted by Eloah

But that's a similar situation to Y'shtola lying about her blindness slowly killing her. To be fair, we know what the color change signifies, it would just be nice if the Devs acknowledged it more. Especially, with the weird model shifts Thancred has gone through. When he returned from the First, he still should've looked like his HW/SB model not the ShB one, but that's probably a Dev oversight. Then again, I think his Trust glamour uses that model, so it's anyone's guess.

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I'm pretty sure Urianger mentions having Tataru make them all clothes that look like what they were wearing on the First? In the cutscene after you woke G'raha up? I don't know, might be remembering that wrong.

Urianger has become weirdly fashion conscious since his trip to another world, he also chats about his outfit a bit when you're in Il Mheg. 'Doth mine robes look dope or what'

Feo Ul told Tataru how to make them via dream, tataru said so via the cutscene and the alliance leaders gave her some of the harder to find mats.

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Originally Posted by Jandor

I'm pretty sure Urianger mentions having Tataru make them all clothes that look like what they were wearing on the First? In the cutscene after you woke G'raha up? I don't know, might be remembering that wrong.

Urianger has become weirdly fashion conscious since his trip to another world, he also chats about his outfit a bit when you're in Il Mheg. 'Doth mine robes look dope or what'

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Tataru made the clothes on the Source based on dream visions given to her by Feo Ul. Presumably Feo Ul having delivered our message about being on the First back in 5.0 made Tataru decide to trust this dream pixie.

But the issue with Thancred is that he looks different if you compare his model from 4.4 (when he first falls into a coma) to 5.3 (when he wakes up). In that time period when Thancred's soul was on the First, his body on the Source has apparently gotten a haircut and shaving that chin scruff he had.

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Originally Posted by YianKutku

But the issue with Thancred is that he looks different if you compare his model from 4.4 (when he first falls into a coma) to 5.3 (when he wakes up). In that time period when Thancred's soul was on the First, his body on the Source has apparently gotten a haircut and shaving that chin scruff he had.

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It makes no sense that it happened, but I'm glad it did.

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Originally Posted by YianKutku

But the issue with Thancred is that he looks different if you compare his model from 4.4 (when he first falls into a coma) to 5.3 (when he wakes up). In that time period when Thancred's soul was on the First, his body on the Source has apparently gotten a haircut and shaving that chin scruff he had.

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Coma patients are typically washed, groomed and exercised. Haircuts and beards are normally trimmed as per the families wishes, I guess in this case the closest thing would probably have been Tataru. We can probably blame manic dream pixie girls again.

I don't think anything is really up with it, I think it was just something they wanted to do to make him "cooler", and then decided they weren't feelin' it and wrote it out/forgot about it.

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Originally Posted by Shofie

I don't think anything is really up with it, I think it was just something they wanted to do to make him "cooler", and then decided they weren't feelin' it and wrote it out/forgot about it.

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I agree; particularly the bolded part.

The times Thancred was shown without his headband eyepatch between 3.1 and 4.4 can be counted on one hand. As far as I know the only time it was shown was when he and Krile were infiltrating Castrum Meridianum to trace Minfilia's aetherial trail. Considering that it's highly doubtful the devs remembered that little detail, and given no attention was ever brought to it either way I don't see why this warrants attention.

The devs forget things too. In charge of a fictional world as they may be, they're people.