Quote Originally Posted by All_Nonsense View Post
Honestly idk what the issue was with him being the Exarch. Why did he have to become this uwu anime boy when we brought him back, as if he didn't lead the entire world through its destruction and towards a place where it had a future. The man who sacrificed everything he had, degrading his body for a century until he crystalized completely, unsure if he would ever be revived, all for a world that he wasn't native to, all so he could prevent a calamity on his home world that scorned him, and one he (at the time) could never return to. Knowing the grief he put his adoptive daughter through, the uncertainty that it would throw the world into, just to stop a threat that was beyond the understanding of almost everyone he was trying to save. All of that development and character potential thrown in the trashcan so he could be shy anime catboy coomerbait. If he retained his dignity and all that stuff and was still mature, and had a "borgar cat" moment, that would be fine. All of the silly shit would be fine, why not. But erasing his identity has always sat poorly w/ me
He's not the same person. He's the 20 something guy we met back in crystal tower now with all of exarch's memories. What happened with him is similar to the minfilias fusing or us fusing with ardbert. Exarch is there but not as he was on the first. Also, there was a bunch of talk of exarch regressing mentally or seeming mentally unstable before the fight with Elidibus. So it could be the bubbly fanboy was his true self. And the Exarch was a mask or role he took on so that the people of the crystarium could feel safe.