Quote Originally Posted by Risvertasashi View Post
Hmm, well that's interesting, but the way that reads, it sounds like there's more of a connection to machinist and chemist than to astro. There's no hint that AST took any design elements from the would-be chemist, just that it's what they went to when they "scrapped the idea" - that phrasing also suggests AST didn't take from Chemist.
That's just a summery of the events that transpired though. It's not an actual account of what happened. And like I mentioned, it was the Mix command that was giving them problems, and that's what eventually became the card system as we know it. We don't know how into the development the job was before the switch, but we do know it was the iconic Chemist ability that was giving them the issue. That's what AST takes away from the Chemist idea, before it turned into more of a, and still sorta is, a Time Mage-esque job. The only thing MCH got from the initial idea was the weapon, to our knowledge.