[ SECRET POST #7041 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #7041 ⌋

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05. [SPOILERS for Star Wars / Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope]




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06. [SPOILERS for Final Fantasy XIV Patch 5.x Shadowbringers]


















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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

That character just /looks/ super annoying. Why would it be a red flag to hate him?

[(Anonymous)]

He's in a role where people can come up with some really fucking stupid attempts at reading him as evil? idk I've never found anyone who full-on hates him, but I sort of fell out of the fandom a year or two back.

[(Anonymous)]

Really? lol, that might be a smidge me, if I'm being honest. Not in any serious way, I know that's how you mean it, people can get really tin hat about the smallest thing, and it can get real heated real fast. But I do definitely have a habit of wearing my aluminum headband at times, myself.

I can definitely see why that'd be a red flag if someone truly means it though. (but part of me would think it hilarious if the creators went left field and made him evil, definitely would not want to be in the blast radius though)

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[(Anonymous)]

In fairness, I picked an annoying screenshot on purpose. In earlier parts of the story, he was a much cooler, more "serious" character, but then the devs started making him "cute"; and there was this cutscene with him eating a burger that people really liked; and then eating food became a staple of his character, both in the fanon and in-game... In short, it encapsulates everything I'm complaining about, haha.

I think it's a red flag to full-on hate him because imo he's a very straight-forwardly good and kind character. That earlier, cooler version of him makes some kind of morally grey choices--while being unequivocally the player's ally, he lies to you A LOT--but it's clear by the end of the story that he was doing his best with a real shit situation. (Like "two entire planets will die if YOU, G'raha, don't figure out a solution"-type situation.) But he very conspicuously does his best to minimize any harm that comes to the player, and he apologizes profusely for the whole thing afterwards, so he knows he did wrong by lying. That whole arc is EXTREMELY well-written, so from an audience standpoint, I can think of no legitimate reason to hate him. For what; playing a major role in a killer story??

(And for the record, I DID once have someone at a fan event tell me very directly that they hated his guts. I was passing out freebies--my own fave is widely and aggressively hated, so I made a bunch of G'raha freebies to hand out to everyone else, figuring he was the safest choice. A bunch of people had already looked me in the eyes and told me they hated my fave, which I'd expected, but I wasn't prepared to hear it about G'raha Tia, the people's catboy! But maybe the real red flag is someone who reacts that way to a stranger, haha.)