Quote Originally Posted by Shofie View Post
I don't think anything is really up with it, I think it was just something they wanted to do to make him "cooler", and then decided they weren't feelin' it and wrote it out/forgot about it.
I agree; particularly the bolded part.

The times Thancred was shown without his headband eyepatch between 3.1 and 4.4 can be counted on one hand. As far as I know the only time it was shown was when he and Krile were infiltrating Castrum Meridianum to trace Minfilia's aetherial trail. Considering that it's highly doubtful the devs remembered that little detail, and given no attention was ever brought to it either way I don't see why this warrants attention.

The devs forget things too. In charge of a fictional world as they may be, they're people.