Quote Originally Posted by Cabalabob View Post
Historically in the series, there is also no reason for SMN not to be able to heal, SMNs have used both black and white magic in previous titles. Examples such as, child Rydia, Terra, Garnet and Yuna.
FF6 and FF10 did not have magic limitations. Any character in those games if done right can have both black and white magic regardless of their inherent class and are therefore bad examples for this. Rydia is also a bad example since when she grew up she lost all her White Magic which would in this case imply SMN should too, which is basically saying drop Physick and Resurrection. As for Garnet: She never learned Black Magic, all White and Summon.