@@Arkayoh my friend came over soon after it and I was inconsolable trying to explain it to them for like an hour and a half. They for sure didn’t understand half of what I said so I just looked like a babbling maniac
i really think that, but i'm a man and when he start talking i really feel like a friend talking to me on a dream he have, and i really want to help him on that dream. and that is great, you can take it as a proposal, you can take it as a promise of 2 friends. the speech was amazing
Some of you might not remember, but the bit where he says "We'll travel the lands, cross the seas, and take to the skies on the eternal wind." Is actually exactly what he said in shadowbringers when you find him on the cliff on kholusia before you fight vauthry. This consistency hit me doubly as hard when i went through shadowbringers again.
i could never forget his speech there was one of the best moments too T_T i hope he don't go and pulls something like this on us again D: i wanna go travelling with him around the world :
I literally cried so hard I was hiccuping when he started with Ishgard. I loved the twins expressions too, like Alisae is shocked at his bravery but Alphy was all, good on you bro.
They had to put a fist bump there to ease the tension where shippers felt a kiss coming on. He couldn’t give that speech with emotional background music and NOT have some cathartic emotional contact, be it fist bump, hug, or whatever else have you.
It would be hard to animate with all the different sizes the player had. Also with all the different unique glamours and stuffs. I do think it's possible but it would look weird.
Normally I would take someone who says that as disingenuous, but from this man? I truly, fully believe his every word. Despite everything he's been through, he's still the same G'raha Tia. And despite everything, you're still you. We stand where we stand by virtue of the road we walked to get there.
After I lost Raha and had to climb the crystal path with the twins it felt like someone had their hand around my heart and was slowly squeezing it, then losing the twins at the top and having to go on on my own, I wasn't visibly showing it but emotionally I was in so much pain, and more than once in the entire zone of Ultima Thule I had to take breaks and almost didn't finish because I couldn't handle it
Same. Unlike the others that ran by me I stopped for quite a few moments before picking up my controller again and I walked. I walked slowly all the way up the path with that music playing then looked back over the zones we went through and the ones we lost along the way and weeped for them all
Man, going through the first few sacrifices I was fine. A bit choked up, but I caught on that we’d be using Hydaelen’s magic to bring them back pretty early. That didn’t hit me too hard. Then best boy goes on his speech and I start bawling. Ishikawa has got me Pavlovian conditioned to start bawling any time G’raha so much as frowns
@@CooroSnowFox Might be a bit of "Eh, it's just me, isn't it?" swinging with in all those sacrifices and burdens he's putting on himself. "I can do this. Yeah, I'll probably perish in the process, but... Better me than you, eh?"
Not really, he just loves like no one else does. Have you never met someone like this? These are the best people in the world to be with. He’s my second favorite to sir wyrmblood.
I feel it too, its those special people that are overly emotional and would do anything for you. It is a pure kind of love tbh without age or gender, it is up to the individual after that whether they would go the intimate way or not.
i almost stopped playing at this point i really could not bear losing him YET AGAIN… glad i pressed on though :( love him to bits. i want a side quest line where you go on cute little adventures with him!!
@@derekbuechele I meant when he said it in the speech. After everything is said and done, we don't get to take a trip with him to Ishgard (or at least anytime soon).
@@seof13 Yeah. Spoilers, but at this point most people here should have been through this part. But the point is that once he's back, you guys have all the time to do whatever you wish. And that could include visiting Ishgard!
yeah that was the one that got me with the "talk to everyone" part at the end, "sweet now me and G'raha can finally go on those adventures and visit all those places, oh you're gonna go back to Sharlayn, ok yeah I understand"
The fact that the lyrics of Close In The Distance don't start until after this scene.... really makes it feel like Raha's the one singing them, doesn't it?
You know. It was obvious by this point we'd get them all back. And yet this scene broke me. I sobbed for him long past the twins sacrifice. All the while calling him a little shit T-T I love G'raha so much, adore his obvious crush on the WoL, this adorable smol catboy (which I noticed only because mine is the shortest possible. We shorties together!) This scene. And the use of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and then switching to Ultima Thule's theme. Ugh. Just, destroyed my heart. Even now rewatching this I was sobbing again T-T
"Who we were before not prescribe what we now hold in out hearts. Whatever came before, what matters most is the present." Damn that hits hard and is especially if you're someone who regretted who they once were or hated who they were in the past.
G'raha is the true embodiment of a best friend and blood brother. Goddamn even I sometimes ship him with the WoL. Dude literally spent centuries dreaming of seeing you again. Alisae's words are the ones we all wished we could say. G'raha deserves to see the journey through to the end, even if it's only but once.
After this I cried so hard. I couldn't speak in VC. I was doing the story with friends and they couldn't play for a few days. I cried every time I logged in. I couldn't bring myself to even leave the zone. To leave him like that. Im an adult god damnit. Bravo story writer... Bravo...
I cried a bit for those I lost for this but Graha’s sacrifice just broke me. I bawled walking on that path as beautiful as his soul! Graha why you do this? Just let me love and protect you
so, some friends of mine and me do a thing where we make a story of how our characters would react to events. it's things like one of us has a character who has a crush on Estinien, another would be annoyed at Thancred, and one of us has a character from the Far East who is terrified when she goes home. Mine basically became the WoL because of G'Raha, she had a crush on him, because of how he was with her, treating her as just someone who was like everyone else. Him sealing himself in the tower made her want to become everything they believed she was, and that she wouldn't see another sacrifice themselves for her. and then Shadowbringers came along, and we found him, and he became what he is because of us. and then 5.3 happened and I had to commit to the bit. if you're wondering where all this is going.......I said I can't make that promise. because my WoL couldn't make that promise, because she couldn't bear to lose him again. All the things that she'd have loved to do with him, to see with him, to take to the future with him.....she didn't want to see him go. If I could have controled HER, she'd have been hugging him, crying into his shoulder and all this.......over a character in a video game that, if we're honest, only really got development in 3 raids, and since 5.0. which compared to the rest of the Scions (Even Estinien when you think about it) is blight all time. Square did a damn good job making G'Raha who he is. and I can't help but love that he got his dream, and this happened and......everything.
I think his hit me the hardest, I feel like since I was a late player and recently just got done with shadowbringers a few months ago the whole crystal exarch thing is still fresh with me. I cried over that too I love g'hara he's gotta be one of my favorites.
It hit so hard for me when he mentioned wanting visit Ishgard with me… the land which I considered my second home and I care for so dearly… both to me and my WoL… so for him to want to visit my favourite place made me bawled 😢 I don’t have a significant other but I wonder if this is how it feels to have someone who paid attention to the tiniest details about you and loved you for them. Going to my favourite place with my favourite person. I love G’raha so much…
I was in VC when I was running this, my friend told me "Oh, I hate the quest [Quest Name Omitted]". I thought she was saying how annoying it was to do stuff. No, she fucking meant this. I managed to keep it all in at this point, but fuck, G'raha making a promise with me just broke me
How to write a character who has an impact in such a short outing, then to disappear for years in our time ... to come back and be even more than that!
"A new adventure like we've never seen" Me: My dude we are on the corner of space finishing a fight that tooks god knows how many years, that's a hard request
I may be a G'raha simp, but I will hand it to Ishkawa and the rest of the devs to make the decision in making any relationship between the characters ambiguous while leaving it up to the players to make that call. This isn't like a book or a tv show where certainty is mandatory to the audience; games with choices should be given the right to the player's interpretation. Especially since player-choice is part of the experience in an mmo like ff14 (not msq wise, of course, but how you play the game). Some players are still in love or heavily attached to Haurchefant and saw G'raha as no more than a fan-friend. Some like to entertain ships between characters. But I believe it is the right call to make it ambiguous in mmo games like this, simply because everyone's individual player experience will always be interpreted differently from others.
I was jokingly telling my friends if something like this happened, Tomorrow and Tomorrow would play...hate when my jokes/predictions come true :'D, still this moment was a real gut punch...Ultima Thule didn't hold back any of its punches and I love it...then I started doing the side quests and I didn't think the area could make me anymore sad
This catboy of a MAN is MY bestfriend. He looked up to me and was inspired to sacrifice everything he knows to close the crystal tower and await a time that might never come. He inspired me to be wverything he thought I was even I thought I wasnt In a ruined timeline he and his fellows worked out timetravel and waited another century leading the remnants of an entire dieing world to see and save us, the WoL just to try to sacrifice himself again when it looked like the WoL would become a sin eater. He is so shy, wondering if he could be as great as us even wondering if he would make it into the WoL 's story one day. When he is a hero! A Warrior of Light in his own right!
That would be great. Of course there has to be some kind of plot to hook up the player, but... yeah, apart of Pandæmonium and the 12 raid, I think 6.x will be mostly slow adventures and slowly building whatever 7.0 is.
@@RedTigerDragoon Maybe. Alphinaud/Alisaie and the rebuilding of Garlemald. Will Lucia do what Raubahn did (with Ala Mhigo) and become the new leader of Garlemald post-Empire? Estinien and Vrtra, perhaps linking in Meracydia stuff. Where there is dragons there is Estinien. Ysh'tola, Thancred and the reflections (in an attempt to reunite Y'shtola with Runar and Thancred with Ryne and Gaia). Maybe something goes wrong and they get sent to another reflection instead. Is Meteion done as a character, will we see her dark side again? Or will she assist us in a new adventure? Will we ever meet past Azem? Or past Lahabrea? Lost of possibilities with space stuff, although I wonder how the aetherytes make it out there. Maybe Venat is more travelled than we thought. Also can't see G'raha staying in Old Sharlayan, he is far too important as a character. Given time travel, will there be a FFXIV multiverse and we meet alternate versions of existing characters.
I was like "Krile, istg I'm gonna steal him from you. I require a cathartic ramble that doesn't involve any heroic sacrifices and I need my adventuring buddy."
There are three universal truths about G'raha Tia: 1. He is absolutely without a doubt the WoL's boyfriend, it's actually impossible for us to not be fucking him at this point 2. When this man thumps his staff on the ground, whoever is his conversational enemy is about to get the most intense verbal ass kicking any sapient creature can or WILL experience in their natural existence 3. When this man begins to even reference in passing the idea of having our history recorded in books or archives, see number 2, but he's not doing it to berate you; he's doing it to make waterfalls manifest from your eyes. Be prepared to cry.
So... this was it. The moment I broke. Mostly because in my headcanon, my WoL has had a thing for G'raha since all the way back in the Crystal Tower. Upset that he couldn't go on more adventures with him because he sealed himself up in the tower, then happy to have saved him in Shadowbringers so they could go on more adventures, only to lose him here. AND THEN THE FUCKING SONG STARTED. And when I listened to the lyrics, it really sounded like it could have been sung by G'raha or my WoL and I mean: UGLY tears. I kept going in spite of all the blurry vision because I was like: There is GOING to be a way to fix this. 😅
For me my charcters relationship in MY mind is that Graha was like an idolizing little brother/ Encouraging big brother (After his time as crystal Exarch) Despite the difference in age he always looks up to me cause he was inspired by me and pressed on cause of me. This point I just started crying, what came next made it even worse.
When I got to this scene the music synced up in such a way that the song got to the "Stand tall, my friends" lyric right after Alisae calls out to G'raha and hoo boy was that a hell of an emotional gutpunch
This one got me, his speech paired with the song in the background and after the cutscene Close in the Distance starts playing...that walk up the crystal path was one of my favourite moments in the entire game.
I honestly cried here. G'raha is my favorite amongst the scions even beating Alphinaud who is like a little brother to my WoL. After doing the Crystal Tower quest, I used my fantasia and changed my very tall Aura to a small male miqote similar to his size. I wanted to be friends with him actually. And having to meet him again in ShB made me happy. In my mind, my character treats G'raha as a very close male friend. And I would imagine the two of them actually hang out and go on adventures together.
God choosing that second option tho QAQ i've got several characters (so all the pain :'3) and on my second time hitting this scene with I'shevi, I wanted to answer as my character will when i reach that point in my story. The sad smile he gives you, and reaffirms how you have always kept your promises, no matter what. I do love both options though. WE LOVE YOU G'RAHA QAQ
I remember being so angry after this scene. For context I chose the second option. In my head my wol is fully in love with him ever since the crystal tower shenanigans first started. To see him again in shadowbringers to time and time again be worried about him doing something rash and never being able to see him again. I was so so happy that he joined the scions and was able to fulfill his dream of adventuring together. So i chose the second option, because I the player didn't want to go through this again. I wanted to grab his hand and say that we'll find another way and we can work around it. After he turned into the crystal bridge all I could think about was getting to the top confronting mettion and just getting him back because I was angry that i had allowed him to go in the first place.
When I played through this I cried so hard. I wanted to stop playing then and there but my friend urged me to push on. I had to, for raha's sacrifice. I'm so glad I did.
What I find most tragic in this is that out of all the shades we come across and end up placing out ideals against, the Omicron seemed like they would have given G'raha a chance; except since they are a shade perpetuated by Meteion, it can't do that. But even in its pale, grim reflection, it can't muster a biting response or pure dread to G'raha's offer to tell him a story of hope, it just backs away unable to make a response.
When I met him in the crystal tower quests I fell for him. When the door closed behind him I said “get back here and kiss me”! When he was revealed to be the exarch I was so happy! This scene freaking broke me! He proposes to me and then sacrifices himself for me?!?!
I won’t lie, this messed me up so much but not how “oh its graha precious boy!!!” kinda way. It’s more of like, I thought I knew 100% these characters would obviously live through this. There isn’t any way they kill off these characters that would be ridiculous. But when I saw graha’s demise it hit different, the music, the aether bridge, it really got to me and I questioned if this way the end for a bit. I went back to being sure it wasn’t but that little fraction of time really got to me for a bit.
this whole map made me sob the whole way till i reached the end, they can't play with my heart like, they can't leave me all alone like that, it's not fair T_T
"And should our souls scatter unto the wind..." -queue soul being scattered in a shroud of dark wind- Not a coincidence. Well played Square Enix, well played.
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Of course when a character becomes my favorite I somehow lose him 4 times in the same story. G’raha I can’t do this anymore please just stay
Glad I am not the only one.
god me too i cried like a baby
I only sobbed for 20 minutes after that cutscene.
@@Arkayoh my friend came over soon after it and I was inconsolable trying to explain it to them for like an hour and a half. They for sure didn’t understand half of what I said so I just looked like a babbling maniac
I used to slap him at the beginning of Shadowbringers for what he did then and now I slap him because HE KEEPS DOONG THIS.
everything he says to the WoL sounds like a straight up proposal
i really think that, but i'm a man and when he start talking i really feel like a friend talking to me on a dream he have, and i really want to help him on that dream.
and that is great, you can take it as a proposal, you can take it as a promise of 2 friends.
the speech was amazing
Some of you might not remember, but the bit where he says "We'll travel the lands, cross the seas, and take to the skies on the eternal wind." Is actually exactly what he said in shadowbringers when you find him on the cliff on kholusia before you fight vauthry.
This consistency hit me doubly as hard when i went through shadowbringers again.
i could never forget his speech there was one of the best moments too T_T i hope he don't go and pulls something like this on us again D: i wanna go travelling with him around the world :
LET US TAKE HIM ON THAT ADVENTURE PLZ QWQ
HOLY SHITE YOU'RE RIGHT!
I deadass forgot that he gave that same speech in SB xD.
I may or may not have written a fanfic based on that scene 😅
I bawled the entire time I ran up the crystal pathway he created. Such a beautifully written character 😭
Fuck, I finished EW last week and I started crying hearing the song again. It's so beautiful.
"Listen to the silence." made me absolutely lose my composure. i had to stop and collect myself after a few minutes.
I literally cried so hard I was hiccuping when he started with Ishgard. I loved the twins expressions too, like Alisae is shocked at his bravery but Alphy was all, good on you bro.
Same, it was definitely the time for ugly crying. I was a wreck in this entire zone.
I did too!😭
It's times like this and that one scene in Radz-at-Han that I'm reminded "Oh yeah, this dorky cat boy spent a century as the Crystal Exarch."
There are some fantastic actors in this game. But Jonathan Bailey really takes it to another level!
Going back and replaying ARR after SHB and EW is so **jarring** now, because the voice-acting at that time was....bluntly...mostly crap.
He just HAD to say Eternal Wind while it was playing didn't he?!
I'm not crying, someones cutting onions again...
Lvl 79 Exarch speech, but with optimism, and an actual hope for an applied future. You gotta love it.
They had to put a fist bump there to ease the tension where shippers felt a kiss coming on.
He couldn’t give that speech with emotional background music and NOT have some cathartic emotional contact, be it fist bump, hug, or whatever else have you.
The "most romantically charged fist bump known to man" award goes to...
Why does noone ever hug our WoL? My WoL needed a big hug after this scene 😭
It would be hard to animate with all the different sizes the player had. Also with all the different unique glamours and stuffs. I do think it's possible but it would look weird.
@@Gehegehee You have a very good point there, At least I can still emote hug them outside of cutscenes 😌
@@Gehegehee but for animate our wol being beated it’s not a problem 😭😭
mine would need one after seeing the twins disappear T_T
blame lalafels >:(
There's something about that answer he gives that I find so comforting. "It simply means I'm the same as everyone else."
Normally I would take someone who says that as disingenuous, but from this man? I truly, fully believe his every word.
Despite everything he's been through, he's still the same G'raha Tia.
And despite everything, you're still you.
We stand where we stand by virtue of the road we walked to get there.
It was then that after this speech and the lyrics began that the dam for me just broke and I cried.
The others I was mildly upset about, but they took my precious bean away!!! I was so mad at Yoshi, but he made it better so I forgave him this time.
Seeing the crystallized path and hearing the lyrics was the hardest punch in this damn area.
Same. Fell apart after this. Then Alisae’s reaction only caring about our reaction to all this loss just breaks me again.
After I lost Raha and had to climb the crystal path with the twins it felt like someone had their hand around my heart and was slowly squeezing it, then losing the twins at the top and having to go on on my own, I wasn't visibly showing it but emotionally I was in so much pain, and more than once in the entire zone of Ultima Thule I had to take breaks and almost didn't finish because I couldn't handle it
Same. Unlike the others that ran by me I stopped for quite a few moments before picking up my controller again and I walked. I walked slowly all the way up the path with that music playing then looked back over the zones we went through and the ones we lost along the way and weeped for them all
It's not the same without the 10 minutes of existential dread while Close in the Distance plays for the first time in the background...
I swear dude I stood there in shock for at least half an hour
That speech, followed up by that song, broke me. I was crying the entire way up. Goddamn this game.
Man, going through the first few sacrifices I was fine. A bit choked up, but I caught on that we’d be using Hydaelen’s magic to bring them back pretty early. That didn’t hit me too hard. Then best boy goes on his speech and I start bawling. Ishikawa has got me Pavlovian conditioned to start bawling any time G’raha so much as frowns
Alisaie's reaction hit me pretty hard at the end, this seen tore me apart
G'raha has always played the sacrifice card way too easily
@@CooroSnowFox Might be a bit of "Eh, it's just me, isn't it?" swinging with in all those sacrifices and burdens he's putting on himself. "I can do this. Yeah, I'll probably perish in the process, but... Better me than you, eh?"
He’s so in love with the WOL. ♥️ I love it.
Not really, he just loves like no one else does. Have you never met someone like this? These are the best people in the world to be with. He’s my second favorite to sir wyrmblood.
@@agilblack7626 Awwww
I feel it too, its those special people that are overly emotional and would do anything for you. It is a pure kind of love tbh without age or gender, it is up to the individual after that whether they would go the intimate way or not.
@@agilblack7626 the writer of ShB and EW has said (paraphrasing) that there are a few implied love interests in FFXIV, and included G’raha among them.
@@LunaGer where exactly?
i almost stopped playing at this point i really could not bear losing him YET AGAIN… glad i pressed on though :( love him to bits. i want a side quest line where you go on cute little adventures with him!!
Or a whole expansion...
I just want to officially introduce him to Aymeric.
so are you enjoying the EW raids? 💕👀
that moan at the start was so unnecessary i thank jonathan bailey for this every single day
He said some really inspirational stuff about how we constantly change, I’ll always remember that. Ra ha my bro forever
Don't :) that's a life lesson. Nothing is permanent. This too shall pass
2:04 HE SAID THE THING
The thing that hurt the most about this entire thing was the fact that we never got to go to Ishgard with him.
Didn’t we meet estinien with him and alisaie in ishgard? Unless you meant IN heavensward
@@derekbuechele I meant when he said it in the speech. After everything is said and done, we don't get to take a trip with him to Ishgard (or at least anytime soon).
@@seof13 Yeah. Spoilers, but at this point most people here should have been through this part. But the point is that once he's back, you guys have all the time to do whatever you wish. And that could include visiting Ishgard!
I think we have all the time in the world now to go and visit. Maybe we’ll get a quest where we take him around, I hope!
yeah that was the one that got me with the "talk to everyone" part at the end, "sweet now me and G'raha can finally go on those adventures and visit all those places, oh you're gonna go back to Sharlayn, ok yeah I understand"
This speech was incredible.
I somewhat knew there was *no way* all these many characters would die, but still I fealt heartbroken with G'raha Tia's sacrifice.
The fact that the lyrics of Close In The Distance don't start until after this scene.... really makes it feel like Raha's the one singing them, doesn't it?
You know. It was obvious by this point we'd get them all back. And yet this scene broke me. I sobbed for him long past the twins sacrifice. All the while calling him a little shit T-T I love G'raha so much, adore his obvious crush on the WoL, this adorable smol catboy (which I noticed only because mine is the shortest possible. We shorties together!) This scene. And the use of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and then switching to Ultima Thule's theme. Ugh. Just, destroyed my heart. Even now rewatching this I was sobbing again T-T
"Who we were before not prescribe what we now hold in out hearts. Whatever came before, what matters most is the present."
Damn that hits hard and is especially if you're someone who regretted who they once were or hated who they were in the past.
That man IS a warrior of light.
If anyone else should have a connection to the echo... g'raha should
Ah yes, the Ship of Theseus philosophy. Quite apt for this scene, and for the character involved.
"It will be marvellous" he sounds like the doctor (doctor who) in that line
G'raha is the true embodiment of a best friend and blood brother. Goddamn even I sometimes ship him with the WoL. Dude literally spent centuries dreaming of seeing you again. Alisae's words are the ones we all wished we could say. G'raha deserves to see the journey through to the end, even if it's only but once.
What broke me was realizing it’s him singing to the omicrons. Broke my heart 😭.
They really knew how to pull the heartstrings on this one. They didn’t play the actual zone music until this scene happened.
After this I cried so hard. I couldn't speak in VC. I was doing the story with friends and they couldn't play for a few days. I cried every time I logged in. I couldn't bring myself to even leave the zone. To leave him like that. Im an adult god damnit. Bravo story writer... Bravo...
I cried a bit for those I lost for this but Graha’s sacrifice just broke me. I bawled walking on that path as beautiful as his soul! Graha why you do this? Just let me love and protect you
so, some friends of mine and me do a thing where we make a story of how our characters would react to events. it's things like one of us has a character who has a crush on Estinien, another would be annoyed at Thancred, and one of us has a character from the Far East who is terrified when she goes home.
Mine basically became the WoL because of G'Raha, she had a crush on him, because of how he was with her, treating her as just someone who was like everyone else. Him sealing himself in the tower made her want to become everything they believed she was, and that she wouldn't see another sacrifice themselves for her.
and then Shadowbringers came along, and we found him, and he became what he is because of us. and then 5.3 happened and I had to commit to the bit.
if you're wondering where all this is going.......I said I can't make that promise. because my WoL couldn't make that promise, because she couldn't bear to lose him again. All the things that she'd have loved to do with him, to see with him, to take to the future with him.....she didn't want to see him go. If I could have controled HER, she'd have been hugging him, crying into his shoulder
and all this.......over a character in a video game that, if we're honest, only really got development in 3 raids, and since 5.0. which compared to the rest of the Scions (Even Estinien when you think about it) is blight all time.
Square did a damn good job making G'Raha who he is. and I can't help but love that he got his dream, and this happened and......everything.
I think his hit me the hardest, I feel like since I was a late player and recently just got done with shadowbringers a few months ago the whole crystal exarch thing is still fresh with me. I cried over that too I love g'hara he's gotta be one of my favorites.
They just had to use Tomorrow and Tomorrow as a song during this scene, as if I wasn’t already bawling my eyes out 😭😭😭. Must protecc Raha!
Estinen uses of dragonsong war... the music has such a reach to hit you many many times
It hit so hard for me when he mentioned wanting visit Ishgard with me… the land which I considered my second home and I care for so dearly… both to me and my WoL… so for him to want to visit my favourite place made me bawled 😢 I don’t have a significant other but I wonder if this is how it feels to have someone who paid attention to the tiniest details about you and loved you for them. Going to my favourite place with my favourite person. I love G’raha so much…
I was in VC when I was running this, my friend told me "Oh, I hate the quest [Quest Name Omitted]". I thought she was saying how annoying it was to do stuff. No, she fucking meant this. I managed to keep it all in at this point, but fuck, G'raha making a promise with me just broke me
Whatever the next expansion is I hope G'raha is there with us. We promised to take him on an adventure and I want to keep it.
It's funny we get to know Alphi, Alisaie and Thancred first but to me G'raha just feels different, He is special even amongst our best friends
How to write a character who has an impact in such a short outing, then to disappear for years in our time ... to come back and be even more than that!
I didn't get that emotional during ultima thule, but when Gra'ha made this speech I started losing it man.
This one broke me, everyone else I was screaming, but this was..I had to stop playing for a few minutes and just cry.
Nobody talking about how we actually have a canon voice for Omega now.
It's always the music on top of the scene that makes us cry.
"A new adventure like we've never seen"
Me: My dude we are on the corner of space finishing a fight that tooks god knows how many years, that's a hard request
I consider Raha to be my char's best friend. When he asked to "go" once again, I think my little Warrior wouldn't have been able to take it :'(
I was afraid they would turn graha into just a fanboy to please that side of the fan base but boy I'm glad he got to be a proper badass.
I may be a G'raha simp, but I will hand it to Ishkawa and the rest of the devs to make the decision in making any relationship between the characters ambiguous while leaving it up to the players to make that call. This isn't like a book or a tv show where certainty is mandatory to the audience; games with choices should be given the right to the player's interpretation. Especially since player-choice is part of the experience in an mmo like ff14 (not msq wise, of course, but how you play the game). Some players are still in love or heavily attached to Haurchefant and saw G'raha as no more than a fan-friend. Some like to entertain ships between characters. But I believe it is the right call to make it ambiguous in mmo games like this, simply because everyone's individual player experience will always be interpreted differently from others.
I was jokingly telling my friends if something like this happened, Tomorrow and Tomorrow would play...hate when my jokes/predictions come true :'D, still this moment was a real gut punch...Ultima Thule didn't hold back any of its punches and I love it...then I started doing the side quests and I didn't think the area could make me anymore sad
At least there's the beast tribe questline.
This catboy of a MAN is MY bestfriend.
He looked up to me and was inspired to sacrifice everything he knows to close the crystal tower and await a time that might never come.
He inspired me to be wverything he thought I was even I thought I wasnt
In a ruined timeline he and his fellows worked out timetravel and waited another century leading the remnants of an entire dieing world to see and save us, the WoL just to try to sacrifice himself again when it looked like the WoL would become a sin eater.
He is so shy, wondering if he could be as great as us even wondering if he would make it into the WoL 's story one day. When he is a hero! A Warrior of Light in his own right!
As beautiful and fleeting as a crystals glimmer
And than he goes to old Shalayan to rebuild.. I thought you want to travel?
I was like "sir??? What about our promise?"
I'm hoping the post EW story patches de-escalate with low stakes adventures with individual Scions
That would be great. Of course there has to be some kind of plot to hook up the player, but... yeah, apart of Pandæmonium and the 12 raid, I think 6.x will be mostly slow adventures and slowly building whatever 7.0 is.
@@RedTigerDragoon Maybe. Alphinaud/Alisaie and the rebuilding of Garlemald. Will Lucia do what Raubahn did (with Ala Mhigo) and become the new leader of Garlemald post-Empire? Estinien and Vrtra, perhaps linking in Meracydia stuff. Where there is dragons there is Estinien. Ysh'tola, Thancred and the reflections (in an attempt to reunite Y'shtola with Runar and Thancred with Ryne and Gaia). Maybe something goes wrong and they get sent to another reflection instead. Is Meteion done as a character, will we see her dark side again? Or will she assist us in a new adventure? Will we ever meet past Azem? Or past Lahabrea? Lost of possibilities with space stuff, although I wonder how the aetherytes make it out there. Maybe Venat is more travelled than we thought. Also can't see G'raha staying in Old Sharlayan, he is far too important as a character. Given time travel, will there be a FFXIV multiverse and we meet alternate versions of existing characters.
I was like "Krile, istg I'm gonna steal him from you. I require a cathartic ramble that doesn't involve any heroic sacrifices and I need my adventuring buddy."
When G'raha mentions eternal wind when eternal wind is playing.
Nice touch.
There are three universal truths about G'raha Tia:
1. He is absolutely without a doubt the WoL's boyfriend, it's actually impossible for us to not be fucking him at this point
2. When this man thumps his staff on the ground, whoever is his conversational enemy is about to get the most intense verbal ass kicking any sapient creature can or WILL experience in their natural existence
3. When this man begins to even reference in passing the idea of having our history recorded in books or archives, see number 2, but he's not doing it to berate you; he's doing it to make waterfalls manifest from your eyes. Be prepared to cry.
I finished the MSQ and was like "No its the onions, I'm not crying."
So... this was it. The moment I broke.
Mostly because in my headcanon, my WoL has had a thing for G'raha since all the way back in the Crystal Tower. Upset that he couldn't go on more adventures with him because he sealed himself up in the tower, then happy to have saved him in Shadowbringers so they could go on more adventures, only to lose him here.
AND THEN THE FUCKING SONG STARTED.
And when I listened to the lyrics, it really sounded like it could have been sung by G'raha or my WoL and I mean: UGLY tears.
I kept going in spite of all the blurry vision because I was like: There is GOING to be a way to fix this. 😅
Yea, i was a mess going up those stairs...
For me my charcters relationship in MY mind is that Graha was like an idolizing little brother/ Encouraging big brother (After his time as crystal Exarch) Despite the difference in age he always looks up to me cause he was inspired by me and pressed on cause of me. This point I just started crying, what came next made it even worse.
From a little shit I hated to my favorite little kitten making me cry
Liking this vid. But I can't watch this again.. I can't. Thanks for putting it up. Stronger folk then I can watch it.
When I got to this scene the music synced up in such a way that the song got to the "Stand tall, my friends" lyric right after Alisae calls out to G'raha and hoo boy was that a hell of an emotional gutpunch
Dammit Ishikawa! You scared me to death in 5.3 and again here in Endwalker… I don’t think I could go on without this beautiful cat boy!
the Christian Rock and the crystal gets me every time.
This one got me, his speech paired with the song in the background and after the cutscene Close in the Distance starts playing...that walk up the crystal path was one of my favourite moments in the entire game.
I honestly cried here. G'raha is my favorite amongst the scions even beating Alphinaud who is like a little brother to my WoL.
After doing the Crystal Tower quest, I used my fantasia and changed my very tall Aura to a small male miqote similar to his size. I wanted to be friends with him actually. And having to meet him again in ShB made me happy.
In my mind, my character treats G'raha as a very close male friend. And I would imagine the two of them actually hang out and go on adventures together.
I used up six boxes of tissues in the entire zone, I swear. And this scene was at least one whole box on its own.
God choosing that second option tho QAQ i've got several characters (so all the pain :'3) and on my second time hitting this scene with I'shevi, I wanted to answer as my character will when i reach that point in my story. The sad smile he gives you, and reaffirms how you have always kept your promises, no matter what. I do love both options though. WE LOVE YOU G'RAHA QAQ
He’s making us promise to take him on an adventure like no other? Bro. You’re in space- what more do you want from me????
Funny how he didn't give a shit to the twins lol
I remember being so angry after this scene. For context I chose the second option. In my head my wol is fully in love with him ever since the crystal tower shenanigans first started. To see him again in shadowbringers to time and time again be worried about him doing something rash and never being able to see him again. I was so so happy that he joined the scions and was able to fulfill his dream of adventuring together. So i chose the second option, because I the player didn't want to go through this again. I wanted to grab his hand and say that we'll find another way and we can work around it. After he turned into the crystal bridge all I could think about was getting to the top confronting mettion and just getting him back because I was angry that i had allowed him to go in the first place.
Tomorrow and Tomorrow into Close in the Distance will never not make me break down in tears ;.;
God, I was sobbing during this. RAHA. STOP DOING THAT.
I cried so hard when I made it here, and I still cry now whenever I think of it.
That speech was amazing 👏
When I played through this I cried so hard. I wanted to stop playing then and there but my friend urged me to push on. I had to, for raha's sacrifice. I'm so glad I did.
That’s it, now I’m crying all over again. This one literally took me out. I thought the twins would wreck me the most, but this was it.
G'raha, the only man they can kill 4 times and still have it be impactful each time.
i wish i had the option in game to kiss this man.
Crying on the toilet has somehow become by new pasion
I remember when I first saw this happen. I was sad but hanging in there until the Shadowbringers theme began. Hit like a truck
He's the embodiment of the eternal fanboy. He was one of the best boys.
dude I loved this scene when I saw it a day ago
My dad was crying like an infant in this scene during my play-through lmao
My motto this whole expansion was I will not cry. I have violated this motto many times
My Little Brother Cannot Be This Wholesome
and thus did i sob like a goddamn baby
That fist bump tho.....😭
What I find most tragic in this is that out of all the shades we come across and end up placing out ideals against, the Omicron seemed like they would have given G'raha a chance; except since they are a shade perpetuated by Meteion, it can't do that. But even in its pale, grim reflection, it can't muster a biting response or pure dread to G'raha's offer to tell him a story of hope, it just backs away unable to make a response.
He is our own best friend and personal fanboy and I love him for that.
Your WoL is so pretty!!!!
When I met him in the crystal tower quests I fell for him. When the door closed behind him I said “get back here and kiss me”! When he was revealed to be the exarch I was so happy! This scene freaking broke me! He proposes to me and then sacrifices himself for me?!?!
I won’t lie, this messed me up so much but not how “oh its graha precious boy!!!” kinda way. It’s more of like, I thought I knew 100% these characters would obviously live through this. There isn’t any way they kill off these characters that would be ridiculous. But when I saw graha’s demise it hit different, the music, the aether bridge, it really got to me and I questioned if this way the end for a bit. I went back to being sure it wasn’t but that little fraction of time really got to me for a bit.
6:35 That 1 raid member who sacrifices himself to a mechanic so the rest of the party can clear.
this whole map made me sob the whole way till i reached the end, they can't play with my heart like, they can't leave me all alone like that, it's not fair T_T
Everybody: *Loves G'hara.*
My WoL: "So much Debt..." *but also loves G'hara.*
When they brought this song back from shadowbringers I was so extremely happy.
His response to you saying (which for the record was my choice) adds even more emotion imho.
I know everyone is doing a romantic pairing with G'raha - but he's my best friend. And that's a love I would never trade.
Heavensward made me appreciate Alphinauld, Stormblood with Alisaie and shadowbringers G'raha... this story is beautiful with these characters existing
"And should our souls scatter unto the wind..."
-queue soul being scattered in a shroud of dark wind-
Not a coincidence. Well played Square Enix, well played.
WHY IS HE THE GOODEST BOY?
So MUCH crying.
I had started to cry so hard at this point. What a trip this entire area was, all the way to the end.