Quote Originally Posted by Lunaxia View Post
Yet even after a century away of leading a collective of survivors of a horrific apocalypse that continued to torment and haunt them beyond comprehension, G'raha still doesn't really appear to mature or change in any respect other than becoming even more fixated on the WoL and his - in my view, a little egotistical -dream of being part of some heroic epic.
I disagree with this. The point of Gr'aha Tia's arc, IMO, is that he was almost assured that he was going to die at the end of his long-term plan to save The First and the WOL. The Exarch, in addition to holding back his emotions for fear of revealing his identity, is morbidly aware that his days are numbered. He selflessly dedicated his entire life to the protection of the First, and plans on taking his last breath sacrificing himself for both the world and someone important to him. But, when he survives and is thrust back into the body of his younger self, he gets a second chance at a life that seemed lost to him.

This is to say nothing of the fact that the fusion young Gr'aha and older Gr'aha left him with an identity crisis. The Gr'aha we see now is NOT merely the Crystal Exarch, or young Gr'aha with a memory injection (which is how Fandaniel describes himself in relation to Hermes). Personally, I thought the scenes where he explains how his memories of leading the Crystarium just "took over" in Radz-at-Han and how he's been wrestling with an existential crisis were pretty well done. Although, I think the latter should have had a BIT more show and less tell.