Quote Originally Posted by aTanpopo View Post
I didn't feel it was out of character for G'raha to offer to stay behind. As much as he wants to go on an adventure with you, this opportunity for Krile to follow her Grandfather's footsteps and learn about his journey in Tural is more important. Krile is a friend of his that he grew up with- her Grandfather and The Students are practically his adoptive family. He has plenty of time in the future to go on those adventures with you- this could be Krile's only chance to do this.
I made mention elsewhere in this thread, but the complete lack of acknowledgement of G'raha and Krile's relationship in an expansion that loves its themes of found family is just downright insulting. I was sad to leave G'raha behind, but if it meant we would finally get more characterisation of Krile (and maybe a touching reunion when he inevitably joined us in Tural... hah...) I happily waved goodbye to him and set off for Tural.

And we got... nothing. Krile was given so little attention she might as well have been standing in the corner for how much she mattered to the plot.

Not pressing Gulool Ja Ja for information on her grandfather made sense in the moment, but not whenever she met other people who knew her grandfather! She was content to just smile and nod and continue on her merry way—and when answers about her past were finally dropped into her lap through no effort on her part, she found out about it offscreen. We get none of the emotional fallout of her discovering the truth that she's from a different shard.

She and G'raha also barely acknowledge each other. When she meets her parents, you would think that'd be the perfect moment for her to mention they were raised together. Instead, she introduces him as her colleague, before turning and addressing him as Raha to his face. It's like the writers don't even know why Krile is allowed to call him that. His eating the ice cream as a way to break the ice is the most familiar they've ever acted with each other, and the whole moment was SO viscerally uncomfortable I was recoiling in my seat.

(And speaking of Krile's parents, she's SO unphased and downright cheerful about the whole situation it comes off as utterly bizarre, but I think I'm about to reach the character limit and my beef with how clumsily they handled that could be an essay on its own.)