Quote Originally Posted by CrownySuccubus View Post
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All you've done is describe what's happened in the story, which, sparing the emotional embellishment, I don't disagree with, save that I would call his attempted self-sacrifice more of a contingency plan than anything. What I'm saying is, yes, look at what he is supposed to have gone through, and the unrealistically minimal impact that has had on his character. He spent an entire century in the First, living through unimaginably tragic experiences and what must at times have felt like a living hell whilst carrying a hefty burden, sustaining untold losses along the way and yet at the end of it all, he's scarcely any different to the man we left in the Crystal Tower, except now even more obsessed with the player character, to the point it's almost uncomfortable how preoccupied he is with them. Most people would have been left sobered and changed by his experiences, but he's trailing after us in the middle of God knows where giddy about the prospect he'll be in a story with us one day. It's bizarre. Nothing else really matters to him.