Endwalker's Graha Tia: A Character Rewrite

[ASkellington]

Honestly G'raha doesn't need a rewrite, but a rebalance.

Like I said before in a reddit post, the writers of XIV don't want to focus on the obvious interesting part of his character - "Am I G'raha Tia before the Crystal Tower or am I the Exarch from afterwards?"

Do I think the fan service could be toned down? Yeah. But I personally didn't have a problem with it. Do I think he's too flat after Shb? Hells yeah, but so are the rest of the Scions and while I think that's a shame, the Scions are a group of almost 10 people excluding the WoL in an MMORPG constantly on screen. Were this a single player RPG his character would be more balanced.

A bit more time of the Exarch shine would be nice, but it isn't something I'll lament over. I already rewrote EW in my head because I don't like its direction.

[Midareyukki]

Honestly G'raha doesn't need a rewrite, but a rebalance.

Like I said before in a reddit post, the writers of XIV don't want to focus on the obvious interesting part of his character - "Am I G'raha Tia before the Crystal Tower or am I the Exarch from afterwards?"

Do I think the fan service could be toned down? Yeah. But I personally didn't have a problem with it. Do I think he's too flat after Shb? Hells yeah, but so are the rest of the Scions and while I think that's a shame, the Scions are a group of almost 10 people excluding the WoL in an MMORPG constantly on screen. Were this a single player RPG his character would be more balanced.

A bit more time of the Exarch shine would be nice, but it isn't something I'll lament over. I already rewrote EW in my head because I don't like its direction.

I just chalk it up to him (and them, by extension) requiring some focus. Rather than them being like people playing DnD and being like "I walk into the room and roll for perception", I want the plot to actually revolve around them like it did in Shadowbringers. Endwalker did very little of that, with only snippets here and there that served only to root the character in their established point in development.

I'd say the only one that actually had any focus at all was Urianger in the moon, because he served his purpose once more of being the oddball and bringing us together. One might argue his moment in Labyrinthos with Moen's parents, the Twins' moment in Garlemald where they lament over their efforts or their individual sacrifices at Ultima Thule, but none of them had any lasting impact or were resorted to. No one analyzed those. They're character-establishing moments, we already know they're like that, they only served to tell us as much. Urianger almost becomes like that, but we always see Loporrits rely on him to bridge that gap.

Still, now that they're going on new adventures, it'd be nice to see them in new situations that explore other aspects of their lives or personalities. Because that's what's going to give them more characterization and material to work with. G'raha has that going for him, they need to fish it out and not just have him have "a G'raha moment" in one cutscene and then call it a day.