Ruby Weapon Questline

[ReviaInfantry]

True, but Gaius is a hard boiled super soldier, not a kid in uniform. Any lower man or woman wouldn't probably survive what Gaius survived.

Well before StB where confirmation of Gaius still lives, he is presumably dead at the point. IMO they put him back into the plot because Maxi-second hand... I mean second in command guy makes too few an impact on "hey the empire has good guys too"

Also the real sacrifice is they got put into side stories, just like Omega. Which while important to the plot still an optional content, even if "oh hey that's unstoppable, but you can go stop it if you have time."

[Anonymoose]

Well before StB where confirmation of Gaius still lives, he is presumably dead at the point.

The dev. team talked about this during one of the panels or interviews. If I remember correctly, what happened was that Naoki Yoshida, Natsuki Ishikawa, and Banri Oda all had no idea whether Gaius was canonically deader-than-dead or only-mostly-dead, and then when it came up as a story possibility they were all like, "Well, I thought you knew!" so he was Schrödinger's Legatus for a bit, there. I was hardcore on Team #GaiusLives, but it started out as a, "That didn't look like a convincing death for who they built him up to be...and the end makes his character arc very strange if you take 1.0, 1.18, and 1.23 into account." Then it turned into a meme because I got so much sh[KUPO]t every time I said it, so of course I said it every chance I got. (And it wasn't funny as much as frustrating until FusionX and Ethys started saying it, lol.)

I didn't think it'd really happen, tbh. But I'll be glad if his character arc and story is sensible at the end, whatever it is.

As for WHY they brought him back (aside from fan momentum), remember how when we went to Ishgard they dragged Estinien back into the story to be a sort of pilot navigating us through his homeland? That again. But for Garlemald.