Quote Originally Posted by Rosenstrauch View Post
I can only hope that G'raha bites the dust in this one. No offense to the folks who like him. But honestly, I have a hard time believing anyone could die at this point.
The thing about G'raha, though, is that the Stormblood narrative was building up to his Noble Self-Sacrifice (tm). Heck, G'raha himself had it all planned out, in detail, how he was going to throw his life away to save the WoL. The Scions caught wind of this, and pretty much forbade him from doing so. For him to nobly self-sacrifice now would be as hackneyed as Nanamo's fake dramatic death was. And if he were to just randomly get offed - what more does that bring to the narrative than anyone else being randomly bumped off? It'd pretty much just be empty shock value. "Oh, my, they spent all this blood, sweat, and tears to keep G'raha alive, and then he's suddenly hit by a truck. Aren't we gritty???"

I agree that Werlyt did Gaius's characterization no favors. I had a rant or two about that on these forums before.