Quote Originally Posted by Wolf Kanno View Post
To be fair to the people complaining about him whining, the party did have other things to accomplish. I mean Cecil was there to save Rosa (which was the only reason Edward agreed to join) and the party was mostly trying to stop Golbez from doing what he did to Damacyan to the rest of the world, so I can see why the party itself basically slapped him and told him to "suit up" instead of letting him have his moment to grieve.
The party yes, but those reasons from my experience are never cited by the haters. As far as I can tell they hate him for the same reason they hate a character like Terra or Tidus. Because they have actual issues to overcome and because they don't act like sly, cool badasses, they suck.