my ingredient pocket has rarely been in such dire straits

also rdm gives off a very dashing, charming impression with the fencing inspirations which suits griselle really well (and at least that one unnamed npc would agree)

*grisham not gris. crossing languages oop

rdm griselle. also caster derived from the same magic so the same umbral calamity/team flare connection applies, but more balanced (griselle strikes me as slightly less chained to her past than grisham). more supportive job similar to how she's the lead-up fight to the promotion match.

blm gris. high dps > high royale rank
his mega charizard x matches well with the explosive firepower of blm, plus blm becoming reviled following the fifth umbral calamity goes really well with the flare nouveau era of his life

what if gris and griselle are both casters but diff jobs derived from the same type of magic... do you see where i'm going with this...

lysandre post-weapon i'm thinking whm. restoring zygarde parallels restoring the land, plus his plans to wander and seek ways to improve the world is very similar to a-towa-cant's pilgrimage beyond the twelveswood

even the whm war of the magi lore fits well in that it once contributed to calamity

lysandre... i think he flexes two jobs to account for pre- and post-ultimate weapon. mch for the before era, since his business was in developing holo tech much like the manufactory is in developing machinist as a new combat job and other tech
also ishgard. noble families. lysandre's ancestry

i also considered drk but its focus is too much on justice for phillipe (and indirectly corbeau)

also i really like this bit of gnb lore in relation to them - i think corbeau would really prefer the quiet of the leathers too, and phillipe still keeps the steel theming through the gunblade

phillipe similarly had to be a tank, as the loyal second-in-command who makes it so that corbeau doesn't have to lift a finger, but it was a matter of which one - pld also worked in the sense of being sworn to a liegelord, but the lore of the ul'dah sultanate feels too old money and above it all

at the very minimum he had to be a caster - in his own words "quit making me do all this physical labour"

this is what really draws me to sge corbeau - even if he barely has any white in his design i think the clinical emphasis really suits him, and i think even the sharlayan origins work for him bc of him getting picked up and mentored by lysandre, a guy who had access to basically every resource

THANK YOU I'M SO GLAD IT WORKED there's nothing in the way of drapey suits (all the loose-fitting tops in particular are completely different items) so i had to make do

i did what i could with the current available glam but yes i turned one of my retainers into corbeau (my other one is rika)

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i wanna have hsp and fish and chips and borger!!!!!!!!!

the kiss mark on the neck. the lipstick smudge across his mouth. OUGH