Quote Originally Posted by Theodric View Post
I was always indifferent to Haurchefant. If anything, the game doesn't kill off characters often enough and seems overly concerned with either playing it safe or milking certain character deaths to ridiculous extents even though it's perfectly happy to downplay and ignore others.

Papalymo, for instance, is rarely mentioned by comparison - and even Ysayle doesn't get brought up as much as Haurchefant.
Papalymo got very little done with him since 2.0 so I can understand the apathetic reaction to his death from anyone but Lyse. Seems a lot of people say "he was unpopular so no one cared he died", but he was unpopular because outside of Tanaka's era nobody in the XIV team bothered to try doing anything with him. The whole "Louisoix's finest student" thing came out of nowhere. They could have built that up sooner.