New Job: Viper

[SeverianLyonesse]

What is with the Zidane class? No class in this game has 100% been based off an existing character.

The closest we get is Gunbreaker which sure has some references to Squall and Seifer.

Dark is not the “Cloud Job”
Bard is not the “Edgar Job”
Drg is not the “Kain job”
Pld is not the “Cecil Job”

There are references to these characters sure. But the whole class wasnt built to make you feel like a certain character ffs.

Viper is not the “Zidane job” it uses a twinblade sure. That’s it. That’s the entire similarity. Nothing else in the 1 minute video teaser we got points at all to Zidane. Nothing.

Y’all stretching yourselves in knots like some kinda twisted Yogi when the fact is we have closer to no information than anything substantive.

It quite obviously has a trance mode, so claiming that it is just the weapon is misrepresenting how much influence Zidane has on the job design.

Show me anywhere in the game that a Hunter job has a specifically snake-like motif, I would accept the genericization of the "Zidane" job. Hell, even show me an Ivalice Judge or any other blade-staff user with a snake/poison motif and I would accept this as an amalgamation of references. The closest we get is Fang's Saboteur job, and that is such a stretch I would never consider it to have seriously affected Viper's design.

Otherwise, Zidane is the only point of reference we have, and unlike Squall having some lion motifs associated with him, nothing about Zidane's character aligns with "snakes". Certainly no more than the Zidane job should have been a "Hunter"/"Treasure Hunter".