Quote Originally Posted by Mirhd View Post
Kind of ridiculous how some people see intense hero worship and a drive to save someone from destruction as "romantic". You need to remember that (heavy spoilers)

During the giant talos questline when you speak to him, he mentions bonding himself to the tower to extend his life indefinitely so he has a chance to complete his work... keep this in mind.

After defeating Innocence, during the flashback scene with G'raha and Urianger, G'raha mentions that in the original timeline Cid and co. had spent the remainder of their lives searching for some way to stop the 8th Umbral Calamity (concluding that saving you, arguably the greatest champion their world has ever known, was the only way) and ultimately failed, but their work was left for future generations to follow. It had taken the survivors two centuries to awaken the Crystal Tower from stasis, and by extension, G'raha, its caretaker, and he was still a very young man at that point. He doesn't say how long he was working with the ones who woke him before he shifted the Tower to the First so I won't take that into account, but the shift was imperfect and placed him nearly a century before he intended to arrive, so tack on one hundred years to the plan.

G'raha states quite clearly to Urianger that the only thing keeping those who hadn't sunken into despair going were the tales of the WoL... and G'raha read/heard them all. Remember the end of the Crystal Tower questline? Before the tower is sealed, he tells you he'll be eager to learn of your exploits whenever he wakes up... that he knows you will be remembered for the hero you are.

Literally, what made the survivors get up in the morning and push on was hope, nothing more, nothing less. All of this obviously affected G'raha deeply, and ensuring the future never came to pass was pretty much his singular focus. That's... incredible, when you think about it, to be so driven; he made himself immortal to carry hopes and dreams of others, not giving a damn as to how long it would take, or that death would await him at the end... a heavy burden.





...Boy, he wasn't kidding. All of that was over three centuries in the making, and he labored for around a hundred (possibly more) of those years trying to save you. While I wouldn't mind a flirt option or something theoretically, romantic feelings clearly aren't the case here.


In the end, you weren't just a hero (and friend! CT quesline!) to him; you became his hero. ...'Scuse me while I grab a tissue.
Pretty much this what I have been trying to tell some of the peeps here.

Only way to flirt with him is your fan fics.
Because it ain't happening in cannon.
Like...I want to flirt with yugiri but that's never gonna happen...