Were you the one that suggested it? I have to say I had never seen it before. Given more time in canon, I could actually see it working. Like, moreso than Ashe with Balthier, even though it still has the inherent princess/sky pirate difficulties. But Reddas seems to have more of a sense of duty? Probably because of his background. As it is, I realized after I took the challenge that this is just horribly cruel to Ashe. It's like she gets close to somebody and they die. Rasler, Vossler in a certain sense, and then you add Reddas and it's like "omg, is she cursed?! o.O" Still, interesting pairing to poke at. Sorry if I'm overly long winded and analytical here.
I happy this worked well in first person. I fumbled through a few sentences in third person present tense, and then decided it wasn't working. So I basically ended up rebuilding it from the ending back.