Quote Originally Posted by WhiteArchmage View Post
I... didn't see him as abandoning them... at all. The whole point is he was the only person who could control the Crystal Tower, and the CT was the centerpiece of their plan. By leaving his timeline he was saving the past (and they only thought theoretically that it would create an alternate timeline, they legitimately didn't know) as a last-ditch attempt to avert a Calamity; and the plan involved his DEATH, even the original plan.
Correct me if i’m wrong, but isn’t that something people use against the ascians/the ancients? Trying to fix the past and bring back their loved ones instead of just living in the present? The game pushes the notion of forget the past and instead try to strive toward a better tomorrow, so shouldn’t have Graha just tried to work in that current timeline to live for a better tomorrow instead of changing the past and the timeline? Just going based off what kind of message they’ve been pushing this expansion with the future, i find it odd it’s seen as a heroic thing when he does it but in the antagonists case it’s bad.In the short story they even say that some people disagreed with Cid’s plan because he was forsaking them, and he can’t even deny that.