Good start to a character arc, for sure.
Ah, yes, the many many, very very, completely permanent deaths of Final Fantasy IV, a game that shows that even children aren't safe from it's willingness to kill off characters forever, with no chance of ever coming back through any means nor conveniently survive impossible odds. I wept when Rydia was eaten by Leviathan and never came back, when Palom and Porom turned to stone and were not able to be recovered, when Yang valiantly stayed behind to shield his allies from a massive explosion, when Cid leapt from the airship bomb in hand and gave his life to protect his dear friends from pursuers. Those final, unquestionably irreversible and irrevocable deaths shook me to the core.
Or they would have if any of them stuck, lol. Least Tellah had the decency to die and stay dead like a champ.