I don't much like Alphinaud.

I however, love his character development.

Even if I'm not fond of his character, it's still really cool to see him change over the course of the game.

It's really great to have some well written character development and I wish we saw it with more characters (I swear, if Curious Gorge has one more crisis involving him being afraid of losing control to his inner beast I'm gonna push him off the Sea of Clouds...)