MSQ

[Kozh]

The gap is relevant because there is a difference between knowing about something and experiencing it for yourself. Essentially, all the time we had with the Exarch would be gone just to have Source G'raha back for no reason while still having Exarch's knowledge. That is such a convoluted way of doing it.

Remember, it's not like Source G'raha had a different experience to the Exarch. It's literally adding Exarch's additional memories. And since they're the same person, it would've resulted in the same person.

Oh he definitely relive the memory like he experienced it himself, as shown when we went to ishgard.

My biggest problem with current g'raha is that he feels like 80% Exarch and 20% young g'raha. Rather than a blending, he's more of split personality. Most of the time he act and speak like the Exarch, with rare moments when he went OOC and act like his young self. Sometimes it even doesn't feel like how young g'raha would act, too, like when he meet estinien. Not even young g'raha is that cringy.

Shadowbringer main theme is entrusting the future to the new generation and let it go when your time has come. Yet g'raha is the only who's able to cheat "death". After 100+ years and lived through a calamity, I doubt you'll be the same person as you were. And now that the future is going to be rewriten, isn't it more poetic to let young g'raha to experience it without having the burden of knowledge and memory of the doomed time-line? He had the potential to be a different person, yet now his personality is stuck due to him already being the Exarch.

It's just frustrating to me that (probably) just because he's fan favorite, he got this special treatment. If this happened to other character, let say for example, to minfilia, I doubt they would let her survive 5.3.

[linayar]

Oh he definitely relive the memory like he experienced it himself, as shown when we went to ishgard.

My biggest problem with current g'raha is that he feels like 80% Exarch and 20% young g'raha. Rather than a blending, he's more of split personality. Most of the time he act and speak like the Exarch, with rare moments when he went OOC and act like his young self. Sometimes it even doesn't feel like how young g'raha would act, too, like when he meet estinien. Not even young g'raha is that cringy.

Shadowbringer main theme is entrusting the future to the new generation and let it go when your time has come. Yet g'raha is the only who's able to cheat "death". After 100+ years and lived through a calamity, I doubt you'll be the same person as you were. And now that the future is going to be rewriten, isn't it more poetic to let young g'raha to experience it without having the burden of knowledge and memory of the doomed time-line? He had the potential to be a different person, yet now his personality is stuck due to him already being the Exarch.

Like I said before, I think he acts like the Exarch who doesn't have the responsibility of overseeing the Crystarium and has a younger and healthier body, hence his reactions so far. ARR G'raha wouldn't act like that in all probability.

And you talk about entrusting the future to the next generation, but that's what the Exarch did by leaving the Crystarium to the people there. And technically, he is the "next generation" of his own self as ARR G'raha is his past.

It's just frustrating to me that (probably) just because he's fan favorite, he got this special treatment. If this happened to other character, let say for example, to minfilia, I doubt they would let her survive 5.3.

We don't really know what they'll do otherwise. It really depends on where they want to take the story with these characters.