The Remaining Healers

[Talraen]

How does that reflect the tradition of a RDM's signature ability X-Magic?

X-magic is less a RDM "tradition" than something they added to FFV to make red mage viable when the very concept of the class up to that point was consistently "black and white magic, but at lower level." If that's all red mage was in FFV, it would have been basically worthless in the long run. Like it was (by design) in FFIII.

How does Holy reflect WHM's status as a healer? How do songs represent Bards status as a dps? How does Ninjutsu reflect Nin's status as a dps when it's primary ability has always been throw?

Simply focusing on one singular facet doesn't always give you the complete picture.

Following your logic, let's toss cleric stance, Deliverance, Sword Oath, FoE and FoF, all WHM dps skills, all shield spells for Scholar...

That's all fair, but what about RDM suggests a tank?