Bare-fisted Monk (for fun and rp)

[Aryalandi]

So~ after watching the Stormblood trailer and thinking about the storyline leading up to Heavensward and what will be happening down the road I have (finally) started fully leveling up pugilist to unlock monk~ going through the entire story with "the emperors new fists" as my glamor of choice~ the reasoning being my warrior of light in her time of introspection over the events she has been through (and especially what happened in Ul'dah) led her to conclude that she had come to rely too fully on a physical object to defend herself from attackers that she could have feasibly defeated otherwise.

Her weapon had become a crutch and without it she became hesitant to act and it cost her and her friends dearly. Thus she had adopted the stance that she mastered a tool, mastered a form of combat, yet neglected to master herself~ and is seeking to mend that.

I will use this to explain why she becomes so much stronger than all of the other monks in the storyline who have been training so much longer than her~ as her lack of a weapon causes her to compensate by more rapidly developing her spiritual growth and mental discipline opening up her chakra more easily than others who (like she used to) put heavy focus on the presence of an external weapon that stunts their internal growth~

I am curious to hear if anyone else was inspired to go the "i need no weapons, i myself am a weapon, these are simply tools" route on their monks~ or if anyone else has started finally leveling it in anticipation of the new expansion~