What would you consider to be the most fitting City/GC for the overall story?

[Alleluia]

Derplander is WAR in the Answers cutscene. Also apparently was in Drowning Wench in 1.0's CS. Both imply Limsa. Limsa has you meet Y'shtola as your first scion, who is the "poster child" for the game (or so I'm told). Eulmore looks like a dystopian Limsa, which hits more of an emotional cord if you are from there.

Limsa and Maelstrom all the way.

[Lord_Umbra]

Derplander is WAR in the Answers cutscene.

Except Derplander is an Archer for most 1.0 CGI he did go War at some point but if we go by jobs then Gridania is starting City-State even ShB still had him being an Archer in flashback trailer for 1.0 parts.

[Enkidoh]

Except Derplander is an Archer for most 1.0 CGI he did go War at some point but if we go by jobs then Gridania is starting City-State even ShB still had him being an Archer in flashback trailer for 1.0 parts.

For most of the 1.0 opening he was ARC... except right at the start in the Adventurer's Guild, where he was dressed in a different outfit (a tabard) and, as far as can be determined, was actually not ARC but GLA (based on the sword strapped to his backpack he hoists onto his shoulder at the end of the opening - also some propaganda art from 1.0 showed him as a GLA with a sword, and SE themselves even have a display at SE HQ of his 1.0 outfit.. with a sword. He may have switched to ARC in the 'Echo scene' back to the Battle of Silvertear Skies, but he was for all intents and purposes a GLA originally (this was after all deliberate - SE were trying to show how the Armoury System worked in the original opening, that you weren't locked to a single class throughout the game).

By the Calamity though he had switched to WAR which is probably the Job he's now most identified with.