I've fallen in love...with an NPC

[Fynlar]

I know a couple of people who don't have a single husbando/ waifu despite being really into the story and everything.

I don't understand (or experience) any sort of attachment to fictional characters. Idk, might be an autism thing (speaking for myself, not necessarily anyone else)

[Lauront]

I don't understand (or experience) any sort of attachment to fictional characters. Idk, might be an autism thing (speaking for myself, not necessarily anyone else)

I don't get it, either. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ There's characters I like more, or less, but not to the point of attachment. Insofar as I like them it tends to do more at a conceptual level, and/or in terms of design.

I don't see anything bad with pple loving NPCs but…

In this characters case, Mr. crystal was there during realm reborn, and no one gave a rats ass about him then.
But all of a sudden when he becomes one of the main chars. and looks fancier, pple notice him.
is this passing fancy or love? why you not notice him before?? ;_;

I'm at least consistent in not liking him then and still not liking him now. He's just marginally less insufferable. In terms of his character design, I happen to find him to be one of the worst designed miqo'te NPCs in the game. There's just nothing that draws me to him and I'd rather some other NPC had taken his place from the CT storyline.

[Theodric]

I'm at least consistent in not liking him then and still not liking him now. He's just marginally less insufferable. In terms of his character design, I happen to find him to be one of the worst designed miqo'te NPCs in the game. There's just nothing that draws me to him and I'd rather some other NPC had taken his place from the CT storyline.

Agreed on his design. There's two Miqo'te male faces I like - the one that X'rhun Tia uses and the one used by the Miqo'te guy that shows up in the latest seasonal event. I don't find the other two faces pleasant to look at.

Furthermore, there's a very concerning trend of G'raha being drawn as being even younger and more child-like in art than he is in-game. Which is pretty creepy!

[Gwenorai]

Agreed on his design. There's two Miqo'te male faces I like - the one that X'rhun Tia uses and the one used by the Miqo'te guy that shows up in the latest seasonal event. I don't find the other two faces pleasant to look at.

Furthermore, there's a very concerning trend of G'raha being drawn as being even younger and more child-like in art than he is in-game. Which is pretty creepy!

10/char because hide boxes.

For the love of everything, why? G'raha Tia came across as mature and the likes because he was/is - he's an old man in Shadow Bringers, more than likely over 60+ years of age at minimum. Which is a lot since Miqo'te have a life expectancy of 50. Heck, he's even considered a grandfather to Lyna, who seems to be older than default WoL whose a young man in his early twenties. If it wasn't for the crystal tower he would have died of old age, explains the fusion to it. Since he's bound to that tower he's not going anywhere anytime soon and I doubt he'd ever leave the first.

The G'raha Tia on the source that some people are wanting to have 'awakened' hasn't gone through any of the character development that the one on the first has. If he wakes up, we'd be getting the ARR G'raha Tia - a young man who stole my freaking sand and made me want to pummel him. I dunno, hope people are willing to accept that. Unless Square does some weird writing where the one on the first and on the source now suddenly have the same character development and thus personality, even if one of them is lacking the experience that caused it. I hope they don't because that would be lame. I swear I think people forget that character development from life experiences and etc are what makes a person, or at least guides the personality.