Quote Originally Posted by Fenral View Post
To borrow a phrase from a series that shall not be named, G'raha is "still in his promotional period." It's easy to forget that Alphinaud and Alisaie had theirs, too, in the leadup to Heavensward and Stormblood respectively. Krile also got hers in the form of the Triad story, but then she basically took over as a less intrusive Minfilia and continues to dwell primarily in side stories.

We don't really know where G'raha will land after 5.55 (or if he'll even still be breathing), but there's a distinct possibility that he's still around the way he is because we need somebody else who remembers Emet-Selch. Their time together in Aumarot could be one big Schrodinger's Gun as far as the writers are concerned.

(That link is to TV Tropes. Do not click it unless you are prepared to get lost for a few hours.)
But neither Alphinaud nor Alisaie tried to make every single situation about them to the extent Graha does. Yes they had their promotional period but the different between theirs and Graha’s is that they didn’t obstruct the story. It still flowed well. With Graha everything is put to a halt so he can have his little fanboy moments in what is supposed to be a very serious situation with people dying left and right. It ruins the tension in the story. Graha’s only purpose now is to be a plot device and to have constant plot convenience for the protags. Other than that he really contributes nothing to the overall story and is just really a detriment in the grand scheme of things(with plot holes and plot armor orbiting around him).