Please bring back Arenvald, Square Enix and Creative Business Unit III. T_T

[TowaIsBestGirl]

I said the same thing somewhere some time ago. I guess leaving him a cripple since the writers don't know what to do with him is much the same as what happened to Papalymo.

EDIT: Now that i looked back on that thread, i was reminded that Raubahn deserves a fully functional arm that also works as a cannon, like Guts.

Aaaaaw yeah, Raubahn of the Rocket Punch. Then again, Raubahn has been consistently shown to have gotten more badass since losing the extra paperweight.

He has a PhD in Allagan Studies. He didn't just magically become an expert on Allag without any training.

Yes, except they never show any of his esteemed "training" so it's hard to believe it. Which is something this game is often rather terrible at, one of my biggest issues really. We constantly get told a character is this or that, but given no compelling scenes to believe it. They just immediately show up and start doing amazing things. G'raha is particularly bad at this, even his morphing into the Crystal Exarch happens largely off-screen. We finally see G'raha again, and he's suddenly an entirely different person. Compare him to... say, Alphinaud? The little brother figure we personally got to see grow into the young Elezen man we know today? Witness his trials and his tribulations? Yeah, that.

I'm always surprised by people who enjoy Arenvald. I find him about as interesting as a bag of rocks.

Granted, I haven't done the EW healer quests though. Does he or his dynamic with Fordola get any more interesting, or do the writers insist on playing the tsundere pairing card again?

This is fair. I'm just so damn weary of them throwing interesting characters into the background to rot. Be it Arenvald, who was seemingly beginning to become prominent to Lady Yugiri Mistwalker etc. Characters being introduced in certain expansions or other content only to be promptly forgotten about not too long after is an awful waste. Square hyperfocuses on the main cast a bit too much for my liking. I'd like to see certain less prominent characters become more relevant in the MSQ so others might see them for what they bring to the table. And Arenvald is a particular interest of mine.

[TaleraRistain]

I'm really torn. I loved his arc in the healer role quests that even if he was in that chair, he was still the person he always was and he was going to find a way to make a difference besides jumping into combat. But I could also see the big brains getting together and coming up with something that would give him the choice to be mobile without the chair if he wanted. I'm not entirely convinced he would take them up on it, though.

[kaynide]

I'm really torn. I loved his arc in the healer role quests that even if he was in that chair, he was still the person he always was and he was going to find a way to make a difference besides jumping into combat. But I could also see the big brains getting together and coming up with something that would give him the choice to be mobile without the chair if he wanted. I'm not entirely convinced he would take them up on it, though.

True; but he doesn’t necessarily need to come back as a fighter. He could become a lead in prosthetic development which would be in line with future healer role quests. I’m sure there are a lot of injured who would benefit from that, and he’d easily find a home in the ironworks.

[TaleraRistain]

True; but he doesn’t necessarily need to come back as a fighter. He could become a lead in prosthetic development which would be in line with future healer role quests. I’m sure there are a lot of injured who would benefit from that, and he’d easily find a home in the ironworks.

He's not really an engineer, though. He did fantastic establishing himself as something of a diplomat and leader among the Ala Mhigans in the healer role quest. He's certainly someone who can bring people together. Reminds me a lot of Carrot from the Discworld novels.

[kaynide]

He's not really an engineer, though. He did fantastic establishing himself as something of a diplomat and leader among the Ala Mhigans in the healer role quest. He's certainly someone who can bring people together. Reminds me a lot of Carrot from the Discworld novels.

I mean, he isn't one yet. Could start somewhere! If nothing more than to be the guy who test-drives the new models/machines.

Though diplomat works too.