In operation Mi'ihen, do you sentence Gatta or luzzu to death and why?

[Dirty Digger]

I always sentence Gatta to death cause he is basically asking for it. Didn't care for his nice safe assignment in the back lines. Didn't want to listen to anyone telling him to stfu and follow his cushy orders. Kid knows what he wants and what he wants is to be a lifeless corpse on the beach. Who am I to tell him otherwise?

This is at least the second kid Luzzu got killed by convincing him to join, and there are probably a bunch more we don't know about it. Maybe 20 dead kids thanks to Luzzu. I feel either Luzzu gets even more of a guilt trip because of this or he is just a complete psychopath and will go on to get many more kids killed to satisfy his bloolust. Ya, he did tell Gatta to follow orders, but self-blame doesn't have to be logical at all. When Luzzu finally does die, I bet he gets met in the farplane by 30 dead teenagers he convinced to join the crusaders and all got chopped.

[Hinnyuu]

Technically you can only ever "sentence" Gatta to death - as Luzzu will die without any action taken and the only way for him to survive is for Gatta to die instead.

I usually do get Gatta killed, but purely because it's more interesting. I get your sentiment, totally - a pet peeve of mine is the character trope where the young guy gets told to wait in the car but he wants to prove himself and gets out anyway etc. etc. And that usually doesn't get them killed, which I find annoying; so seeing some comeuppance makes me fist-pump. But that aside it's also more interesting to see Luzzu distraught and share in Wakka's pain, having some younger brother figure die in a futile fight against Sin. That's way more interesting, narratively, than just having the old mentor with baggage simply not survive. Eh, whatever.

[Dirty Digger]

Originally posted by Hinnyuu:

Technically you can only ever "sentence" Gatta to death - as Luzzu will die without any action taken and the only way for him to survive is for Gatta to die instead.

I usually do get Gatta killed, but purely because it's more interesting. I get your sentiment, totally - a pet peeve of mine is the character trope where the young guy gets told to wait in the car but he wants to prove himself and gets out anyway etc. etc. And that usually doesn't get them killed, which I find annoying; so seeing some comeuppance makes me fist-pump. But that aside it's also more interesting to see Luzzu distraught and share in Wakka's pain, having some younger brother figure die in a futile fight against Sin. That's way more interesting, narratively, than just having the old mentor with baggage simply not survive. Eh, whatever.

Ya, gatta goes a bit crazy when he dies. Understandable, but not very interesting.