What's the point with that quite lackluster story in Endwalker?

[KizuyaKatogami]

Huh? I was explaining why Gr'aha's actions and demeanor make sense in context and seem extremely "human".



I'm not sure how? He makes it pretty clear that this was his intention from the beginning. He outright states that his goal was to pretend to be some untrustworthy manipulator, and then, before the WOL could be overcome by the excess Light, pretend to "betray" them, absorb it all himself and then disappear someplace where he'd die out of sight.



Yes, I said, that is the point. The Crystal Exarch spent an entire century making sacrifice after sacrifice and eventually came to realization that he would never live to fulfill his dreams. At best, he was going to be too old and have sacrificed too much of his body to the Tower, and at worst, his plan was going to work and he was going to

You can't tell me that if 99% of the gamers on this forum, or the internet as a whole, suddenly found themselves stranded somewhere for so long that they grew old and had to sacrifice their passions, dreams and the games they love, but then somehow found a way to go back in time when they were young and free of all of that....that they wouldn't immediately try to live out those once-lost dreams and play all of the games they missed out on in the alternate timeline. Hell, that's what a lot of senior citizens do when they retire from their jobs in real life.

That's not "unrealistic" to me. That's human.

My problem with all of this is…. he should have stayed dead. Why does he of all people get a second chance? What makes him more special than many of the others who didn’t get that chance?

As for someone else who mentioned Graha in EW….that burger scene is engrained in my head and i want it to go away. It’s like something straight out of a cartoon and that’s what graha always makes me think of. Like he just stepped out of a damn cartoon.

[CrownySuccubus]

My problem with all of this is…. he should have stayed dead. Why does he of all people get a second chance? What makes him more special than many of the others who didn’t get that chance?

Because Emet-Selch "saved" him by accident. Nobody else would have been able to stop Gr'aha when he was going to sacrifice himself for the player. After that, it just became a manner of, "Okay now we have time to work on the problem, so let's just do the best we can."

It's not Gr'aha's fault that he cheated death.