Quote Originally Posted by MilesSaintboroguh View Post
Wouldn't happen in a million years. It seems like Square doesn't want the player character to suffer at all and would rather use NPCs as the vessel for whatever the plot demands while the player does the legwork.
On the other hand that precedent could serve to make it all the more shocking, of course there would eb the issure of playability after that event but considering clones canonically exist...

Of course its also likely that the PC will undergo apotheosis like a certain spoiler character, or an aetherial clone will be made as a side effect until the original is free of Zodiarc (is that happens)