Are you really a warrior of light if you used a skip potion?

[TaiyoShikasu]

Let me ask another question: are you really the Warrior of Light if you haven't beaten Ultimate? The Warrior of Light, surely, should be able to easily handle the worst of the bard's imaginings after all.

Between jump potions and Ultimate clears, one's status as a Warrior of Light is determined by their chequing account balance.

[Ameela]

Let me ask another question: are you really the Warrior of Light if you haven't beaten Ultimate? The Warrior of Light, surely, should be able to easily handle the worst of the bard's imaginings after all.

It's kinda sad to think about the fact that most of the time you spend as the Warrior of Light is just your character closing their eyes and imagining an harder fight than what they were presented with in reality lol
At least HW had the extremes as virtual reality things so we were actually fighting rather than daydreaming.

[Eldevern]

One the other hand, the warrior of the light is just kind of fed ex servant, then does it really matters?

[Kleeya]

Also what about people not using skip potions, but not reading dialogs and skipping cutscenes ? Are they really qualified to be the warrior of light when being asked what they think about Hydaelyn, they answer "Hydaelyn ? What's that ? Is it something to eat ? Does it taste good ?" ?

[Dualgunner]

It's kinda sad to think about the fact that most of the time you spend as the Warrior of Light is just your character closing their eyes and imagining an harder fight than what they were presented with in reality lol
At least HW had the extremes as virtual reality things so we were actually fighting rather than daydreaming.

Yeah, I agree with you there. My headcanon has it that the actual fight was as hard as the bard tells it, and the story mode fight is just us repressing the horror of what we actually went through (us listening to the bard is us facing up to that trauma)

[Bonbori]

Yeah, I agree with you there. My headcanon has it that the actual fight was as hard as the bard tells it, and the story mode fight is just us repressing the horror of what we actually went through (us listening to the bard is us facing up to that trauma)

The trauma being, of course, repeatedly wiping due to lack of coordination, misunderstanding of mechanics and party members' inability to graciously offer or take advice, eventually leading to the group falling apart and the boss never being defeated until the next level cap increase.

Actually, nobody who has ever died deserves to be called the Warrior of Light. After all, canonically WoL has never lost a fight (except in a few scripted cases where they did), they always one-shot everything they attempt. I've never heard mention of the WoL repeatedly attempting the same fight until they succeeded by sheer luck thanks to a tank who was the sole survivor of a near-wipe and managed to singlehandedly whittle down the last 3% of boss HP.

In my head canon, my WoL died on Ifrit Normal a long time ago. Everything since then has just been the fever dream of a slowly fading consciousness.