A Moment of silence: Minfillias father.

[Anonymoose]

I was just talking about this with someone!

Whether people understand the changes in Thancred throughout ARR (especially 3.2) depends a lot on how well they understand this moment.

SPOILERS THROUGH 3.4

He blames himself for not seeing sooner that the parade was going sideways (distracted by hitting on women as part of his blending in and reconnaissance), and thus blames himself at least partly for Warburton's death. He feels like his mislaid priorities robbed a little girl of her father, and the only thing that makes that any better is that he looks out for her himself.

Follow that up through him putting too much pressure on himself to fill the void left by Louisoix, how hard he is on himself when he can't help (assist Scion recruits, fight primals, prevent tempering), how he never asks for help ("I can't teleport? I guess I just live here now."), how he glosses over it all with sarcasm and aloofness, and that he wears himself down enough to let himself get possessed by the enemy and threaten everything he and Minfilia were out to do.

Aaand then she's killed.

Kind of understandable how he lost his ability to gloss over the negativity for a while there. If they didn't heal him up a bit between 3.2 and 3.4 so he could even be there to say goodbye, I don't imagine he'd ever stop being the guy who socked Emmanellain in the face for implying he was a great hero who accomplished everything he set out to do and knew nothing of having important decisions on his shoulders or dealing with the consequences of failure.

[Rannie]

Kind of understandable how he lost his ability to gloss over the negativity for a while there. If they didn't heal him up a bit between 3.2 and 3.4 so he could even be there to say goodbye, I don't imagine he'd ever stop being the guy who socked Emmanellain in the face for implying he was a great hero who accomplished everything he set out to do and knew nothing of having important decisions on his shoulders or dealing with the consequences of failure.

I don't know. I think I'd might have liked seeing him more like that... Hell, I wish we had punched that kid instead of Thancred stopping us... though that was a damn good right punch.