[SPOILERS] Minfillia' Fate in 3.2

[Fenral]

I'm going to play the thematic resonance card on this one and look at how this ties into CT. Most Japanese players thought the stunt G'raha pulled at the end was just the coolest, most noble thing. Most American players saw it as a tragedy we were never given a chance to prevent due to dodgy character writing.

Going by what Cyril linked, every single person in that cutscene was hard-lining for the Law faction and never saw a reason to disagree. Cid's line in Japanese wasn't the unanswered "Is there nothing we can say to stop you?" It was the plainly approving response, "It looks like your resolve is firm." In spite of the entirely vague motivations and dubious necessity, nobody present feels like discussing alternatives. While Japanese players were criticizing it for other reasons, like the poor handling of Doga an Unei's apparent deaths, G'raha's "sacrifice" was not one of them (but a few "Like!"s on the post I made in that thread at least indicate that there were a few Japanese players who felt the same).

Thematic resonance comes into play when you consider both Minfilia and G'raha were dimly aware of a purpose given to them by a higher power (Hydaelyn for Minfilia, Allag for G'raha), both were groomed for that purpose from a very young age with very little info to go on, and both were backed into a corner by developments that pretty much left them with a suddenly-revealed choice between making the ultimate sacrifice or forsaking the "purpose" left to them by their respective higher powers. They even both voiced their lingering regrets before rushing off to do "the right thing." While I had noted some vague similarities between them before, I'm now almost positive that G'raha was meant as an early reflection of Minfilia's present circumstances.

The message is clearly that, "this is what serving the greater good means," but only now, a year later, are my nagging suspicions manifesting into FFXIV's latest change in direction. Matoya hit the nail on the head when she said that Alphinaud needs to learn that there is no universal good. That doesn't mean we're suddenly going to be evil, just that we don't need to kill ourselves for a cause that never existed to begin with. There's nothing evil about trying to find a way to save everyone that includes the people you care about.

[Frederick22]

"I'm in love of G'raha"

pls... no more G'raha
xD

But yea coming back to the post is true. Its a morality thing, that there are monsters in the world doesnt mean that we have become one yourselfs to defeat one. We can be better than them.