Adding to what I said before...

Quote Originally Posted by DRKoftheAzure View Post
Let's not project things like that onto our favorite characters...
This hadn't clicked the first time I read your post, but are you seeing it as a negative thing to "label him with a disability" and I shouldn't be doing that? Because that wasn't my intention at all.

I have Asperger's, and don't really see it as a disability so much as a trait - it's a label that describes how my brain works. It might not be "normal" but it's an integral part of me as a person, and it comes with positives as well as negatives.

So it's nice to see a character with those traits who's just portrayed as another person on the team, with their own strengths and skills to add, and valued as a friend.

Maybe it's intentional, maybe it's coincidental (but of course it's something of a character archetype anyway) but he fits the description regardless.



Quote Originally Posted by Paladinleeds View Post
Although I would have thought he'd have fit Scholar better than Astrologian, but guess it just shows to Aspies that they can branch outside of the stereotypes associated with them.
Astrologian is all about fortune-telling (and is confirmed to actually work in Eorzea's universe), and his "focus subject" is prophecies so it's not at all suprising that he would have studied it.

Though it might actually be for gameplay purposes, since Alphinaud is classed as a scholar for the trust system now, so Urianger may have only been shifted to astrologian so there would be more character variety. He's certainly previously acted as a healer-arcanist for solo instances.