[HEADING=3]OH MY GOD LEGEND OF DRAGOON[/HEADING]
Guys. Holy crap. Spoilers of the end of the first disc.
Lavitz. He is the second character you meet in the game, and he is the best person you will ever know ever. Him and the main character (Dart) instantly hit it off and are all buddy-buddy with each other. The game then spends the entirety of disc one making you as a player fall in love with how great this dude is. He makes jokes, he helps you save your girl... He is the epitome of likable character. At one point you go have dinner at his house, and meet his mother. His mother!
And she's delightful.
He is the most calm and collected dude. Ever.
But then, at the climax of the first disc, the situation causes him to snap, and he lunges at the bad guy... And he gets stabbed clean through his abdomen right in front of you, and bleeds out...
To compare to a few games you are more likely to have played, Bioware likes to do this sort of thing a lot. Mass Effect, Dragon Age, and KOTOR... I think? They establish a mentor sort of character, someone for you to feel safe with, and then kill them off an hour into the game.
The difference is, in Legend of Dragoon, it took 15 hours, and you already wanted to marry the guy.
Oh and sorry for leaving so many posts, I'm just writing these as I think of them.