Quote Originally Posted by SentioftheHoukai View Post
So like, am I the only one who failed to form some manner of attachment to that dude? The game seems to want to keep making me angst over some knight I feel like I barely even really knew. Haurchefant barely shows up in Heavensward proper, and his ARR presence is limited to a single not all that lengthy quest chain. It really feels like when he died I'm more like....

"Oh no! Anyway!"

Because the guy never really registered on my radar.
Despite appearing a few times, I became more attached to him than many characters who appeared many times (I wouldn't mind seeing all the Scions die, I'm already sick of them).

The few times he appeared, he tried to help my character, and there wasn't that desperation to make me swallow the character (of course I'm talking about the English translation, and I won't get into the subject of how he is in Japan, even because I don't play the Japanese version).

However, they've been hammering his death since SHB, with thousands of flashbacks, references, and desperately trying to make me cry with it, that I've had enough of the phrase "a smile better suits a hero".

The more they force me to like something, to get emotional about something, the more I feel like the story gets stupid, and the less I do what they want. Seriously, write the story in a natural way, emotion and affection comes naturally.

Moenbryda, on the other hand, I feel just like you do. I don't give a shit about her.

Also, she was an ARR character, and doing two terribly long scenes while the world is ending was cringe to say the least. I didn't even remember her name until Urianger started talking to me on the moon about it. So far so good, but soon after we have another gigantic litany on the same subject, and I got a raised eyebrow thinking "guys... the world is ending. Couldn't you have done this sooner?"