Quote Originally Posted by tokinokanatae View Post
I don’t think EW had G’raha as particularly obsessed with the player character unless you’re, like, mad he joined the Scions and showed up in cut scenes alongside them. Pretty much any interaction with him is optional outside of, again, group cutscenes—where they tend to focus more on his friendship with Alisaie—and his big moment in UT, which was one of the better one of those scenes. (And probably one of the only times we do get focus on his love for the WoL.) Anything else where you walk with him or he has flavor text you can interact with can be skipped by not talking to him.
I feel his presence and adoration of the WoL, not just within 6.0 but the patches surrounding it following SHB, were just forced on the player too frequently, and without any choice for the player to step back and say "okay, can you hold back a bit?" or even display any of the ambivalence we typically show toward biased characters. It feels too juvenile and inappropriate given the weight of the story, and even Alisaie displays a little more restraint and maturity in spite of her feelings despite being younger than a deal younger than him (though I don't exactly have zero problems with her portrayal in Endwalker; the sudden shift of her character at points to some sort of tsundere genki girl was its own problem entirely.)

I do think G’raha suffered somewhat in the immediate aftermath of 5.3 when he was joining the Scions, but overall, I’ve enjoyed his story of trying to relearn who he is without
In the end, G’raha isn’t going to stop liking the WoL and getting excited over the idea of adventuring with them. That’s been a core part of his character since ShB. You can head canon your character being significantly less excited over it than he is, but there’s no reason for him to act like the Exarch now either. He can do many of the things that were impossible dreams for him when he decided to become the Exarch. That’s the point.
And I disagree with the notion that it's realistic or good writing. I find it shallow and strange, and I don't equate expecting him to show more depth and perspective for what he's been through as expecting him to behave exactly like the Exarch. I just struggle to fathom that I'm meant to accept this as understandable/ endearing behaviour from any grown man, let alone one with his experiences:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQx8_ZB59_k