And there's Iscah, with the obligatory wall. Here goes:

Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
Eden
Ryne using the gunblade to slice into where Gaia was trapped is dramatically appropriate and all, but... how does that work in a metaphysical space? Is she actually there? Am I overthinking this? (she says while writing an essay-length post about a videogame.)
FF8 spoilers (doesn't actually spoil plot, but it's trippy): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTlU0KBv8ss

Watch up through 6:15. Most of Eden's ending cutscene is from here, but I can't actually find the gunblade slice that I was looking for, so that might have been lifted from one of Squall's limit breaks instead.

Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
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[G'raha's condition]
I can't see them killing him off like that, but I could see his powers timing out at a really inconvenient moment and leaving us all to fight our way out of something that looked straightforward on the way in.
If it wasn't clear already, I have watched entirely too many single-cour anime series, and as a consequence have experienced pretty much every possible way to kill off most/all of your main cast. Just putting that out there as my worst possible read so I stop thinking about it.

My softer, FF3/9-esque read is that it will be used as a non-lethal way to explore mortality. His "time" is limited, but his new arc will be about finding the value of his life past the expiration date on his superpowers. Setting a time limit may have even been Doga and Unei consciously pulling an Archmagus Noah (FF3 edition) to force him to ponder the question.