WAR vs. DRK: Philosophy

[Tenkuu]

I am offended at even such a suggestion! Dark Knights have no great deeds to call their own, while my ilk has wrestles with BEARS! MOUNTAIN BEARS!

HULK ANGRY!11!!!!one1one!1

Isn't that the whole point though? DRKs take up causes that aren't their own rather than fight for themselves or to prove themselves to anyone. In fact, rather than trying to prove anything to anyone, they're risking themselves to do what they feel is the right thing. As Belhi was saying, DRK is truly the job that comes the closest to the defining parts of the WoL's personality.

Ever play the game Persona 4? I'm only at 45 on the DRK story but I always thought that the Shadows from that game are similar to Fray. Basically the concept is that your Shadow is the part of you that you reject, the parts of your personality that you don't want to admit exist. For instance one of the characters says he's on the adventure to get justice for a murdered classmate he had a crush on, but his Shadow reveals that he's actually doing it to stave off small town boredom. The Shadows can't be defeated unless a person accepts the Shadow as being a true part of them, but it's also important to realize that your Shadow isn't the whole truth. So while it's true that part of the WoL may be tired of everyone dumping their problems on him/her only to be taken for granted or betrayed it's also true that the WoL is doing this stuff because it's the right thing to do.

The WoL is tired of people dumping all of their problems on them, but the reactions we've had even in the entirety of 2.0, in a few cutscenes, already showed that we're not just some placid doormat. Our reactions, few though they may be, have ranged from surprise and shock to fear, worry, happiness, anger, annoyance, and sadness (Edda, T12 and T13). There are probably even more that I'm forgetting. DRK didn't feel like such a stretch because the WoL is shown to have those feelings, just unvoiced most of the time. We definitely got more chances to voice personal annoyance with a situation with 3.0 in general though, especially in 3.2 where one of the possible answers to Thancred asking what we're going to do about the Grand Melee is literally, in the Japanese version, that we're fed up with the whole thing (I loved that answer). The WoL has reacted to several events but hasn't let those events affect them to the same degree as other people.