Louisoix: The White

[Fated]

Good deaths are made bad by people who cling.

[Ashiee]

Just going to say, how can you be 100% sure he is dead? It does look grim for him at that moment, but I'm assuming something happened to tame Bahamut at least a little bit because not everything is completely destroyed, and I have a hard time imagining that 5 years (I think they said 5 years) in the future, everything in the Gridania area would have been rebuilt, because as far as I can tell from the Alpha footage that SE released, Gridania looks pretty much in tact. I'm not saying Louisoix is not dead by any means, but the scene fading to white does not indicate that he is Dead either.

[Fatestorm]

Just going to say, how can you be 100% sure he is dead? It does look grim for him at that moment, but I'm assuming something happened to tame Bahamut at least a little bit because not everything is completely destroyed, and I have a hard time imagining that 5 years (I think they said 5 years) in the future, everything in the Gridania area would have been rebuilt, because as far as I can tell from the Alpha footage that SE released, Gridania looks pretty much in tact. I'm not saying Louisoix is not dead by any means, but the scene fading to white does not indicate that he is Dead either.

This. As several people have said, it's simply presumption to assume he's dead until the events of 2.0. If he dies, he no doubt died nobly.

But all we see is a lens flare. Not a corpse. (Unless he teleported himself to plague-ridden Arthurian England... O.o )

[Matsume]

[Shura]

In this case, i think Bahamut passed quite easily.

[Dannythm]

I'm wondering about the name of 2.0 "A Realm Reborn", not "A Realm Rebuilt" or something like that, so that enigmatic smile of Louisoix can mean that he managed more than just forward us into the future.

[Taltale]

I was totally thinking of the possibility of Louisoix, The White lol. I see where some people are going with the the wish that he remains dead in that it will make his sacrifice more honorable and I do agree. The sad endings always find a way in my heart to be my favorite. But, if you think back to when Gandalf came back in LOTR as Gandalf, The White..was he any less respected because he was...still alive? He fought an epic battle, won, and came back. He still made the sacrifice not knowing what the outcome would be.

Whether we honor him by building a statue or if we are able to honor the living Louisoix, I'm not going to have any less respect for him if he does appear in ARR. <3

[Duelle]

Come on "Like" if you wanna see Yoshi pull a LOTR! you know you want this!

Wouldn't that lead to people bitching about it not being Final Fantasy or some such nonsense?

[Atoli]

Wouldn't that lead to people bitching about it not being Final Fantasy or some such nonsense?

Actually it would be very typical for a Final Fantasy game.
Remember FFIV? A load of people died sacrificing themselves for your main group. I was sad every time but never as much as when Palim and Palom sacrificed themselves.
Until EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. of them came back to life xD

That being said; I'd prefer it if he stayed dead. Gandalf never had the "I accept my fate" expression, he fell while still fighting, his throughts were described as "I think they won't be able to go on without me". The reader didn't know about it for a while, sure, but for Gandalf it was always obvious that he was still needed.
Louisoix..not so much. His facial expression said "It's fine. I got them to safety..hm..seems like I'm out of mana..I guess that's it. But it's alright. They are safe."

I don't view that as less worthy than any other sacrifice but I think it would not be as great and meaningful if he survived.

[Sleverin]

This wouldn't be the least bit surprising. My friend and I discussed this last night that until we see a body (or hell, even a spirit) we have no truth as to whether their death actually happens and could easily come back. An end surely for the cutscene but we have nothing to go on the fact that he's gone, also is no one concerned about our fearless leaders? I've been wondering about that since moment one...what happened to eh people we served under and valiantly defended in the final hour?