Quote Originally Posted by Alleluia View Post
Wait. So, in the Japanese, Frey is NOT part of the WoL's psyche, but is actually just a spirit (of the dead guy?) attached to the soul crystal? Or am I misunderstanding what you're saying here? Cus this makes the fact Frey looks like the WoL in the HW quests very weird, if so.
It's a little more complicated than 'angry ghost', but it's closer to that than anything; rather than being entirely a figment of the WoL's imagination, they're basically the real Fray's spirit intermingled with the soul crystal's aether. There's some of the WoL ambiguously in there, but there's enough of Fray to attribute a lot of it to him rather than us. The 'appearing as us' part in the level 50 quest I think is more him trying to appeal to us and perceived commonalities rather than pulling the mask off to reveal he is us, but it's been a while since I've checked.

It might also be worth noting that Fray himself is written differently, too. There's a lot less 'self-righteous, frustrated rage' and a lot more grim determinism occasionally mixed with some yandere tendencies. So it might not even be right to say that other languages get 'Fray's real and a jerk', because that's not really the lead descriptor at play with JP Fray.