What're the least and most lore-friendly jobs for an RP character to have?

[Jzarah]

Supposedly anyone could become, say, a machinist, but jobs like dark knight seem to be.. a special case. Which jobs seem like fair game for your run-of-the-mill adventurer, and which ones would need some heavy justification to fit within the world's lore?

[ItMe]

and which ones would need some heavy justification to fit within the world's lore?

I don't understand...
All jobs fit in the world's lore...

[Jzarah]

I don't understand...
All jobs fit in the world's lore...

What I mean is, your average joe isn't going to become a gunbreaker. There's not a million of them running around. If I remember correctly, your job trainer is supposed to be "the last one" until you become one.

[ItMe]

What I mean is, your average joe isn't going to become a gunbreaker. There's not a million of them running around. If I remember correctly, your job trainer is supposed to be "the last one" until you become one.

Ah, I see.
Wait... I haven't played GNB, but aren't there a bunch of them in Bozja? What do you mean your trainer is "the last one?"
And wouldn't they just... be able to keep training other people? Do they die or something?

[Jzarah]

Ah, I see.
Wait... I haven't played GNB, but aren't there a bunch of them in Bozja? What do you mean your trainer is "the last one?"
And wouldn't they just... be able to keep training other people? Do they die or something?

I think the Gunbreaker questline was written before Bozja was considered, but also sure, they can train other people, but the likelihood of someone that can't see big blue exclamation points on their map running into the sole trainer of an exotic combat art seems very slim. Meanwhile the Manufactory in Ishgard is making artificial soul stones and actively trying to recruit people to become Machinists.

[ItMe]

but also sure, they can train other people, but the likelihood of someone that can't see big blue exclamation points on their map running into the sole trainer of an exotic combat art seems very slim.

I mean... just because their first apprentice meets them in the East Shroud doesn't mean everyone after that needs to stumble upon them being attacked by a highway man.
Especially since... doesn't the questline afterwards take place with them hanging about New Gridania?

Also, does this mean you are RPing where you can see quest markers?

I guess what I'm saying is most jobs are only an issue if you're looking to make them as such. If you're RPing you don't even need to have the same backstory as the game lays out for you. We get our chocobo given to us from the ranch, but some RPers pretend it's been their choco since they were kids, or that it was their fathers mount.
One could say "yeah, I'm a GBN. I picked it up from..." and then just make up literally anything.

If two people both wanna adhere to the in game GNB quest though is that really a problem? You will never ever get your RP lore to be compatible with everyone else's.



So I guess, to awkwardly loop back around to your question...
NIN is probably the toughest since it is a secret art being taught to you by a foreigner.

SCH sounds hard for multiple people to be when you focus on the Tinberry stuff, but you become a SCH because "oh cool it's a fairy."

Everything else* is pretty much fair game, even WAR which is about you helping a guy rediscover lost WAR arts. You can just make some shit up about how you independently learned the true inner power was friendship.

*not that I've played them all though lol

[Jandor]

What I mean is, your average joe isn't going to become a gunbreaker. There's not a million of them running around. If I remember correctly, your job trainer is supposed to be "the last one" until you become one.

Gunbreaker actually seems like one of the easier jobs for an average joe to pick up, the lack of trainers and weapons is definitely the main bottleneck.
The actual art of 'Gunbreaking' definitely strikes me as one of the easier ones to learn though, you don't need to remember a bunch of ancient incantations, bathe in demi-god aether, or master your inner beast/darkness/dragon/etc. You just need to know how to swing a sword and make sure you have some sticky labels for your various cartridges.

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As for other players out in the world and such, I don't know, people often seem very rigid in their thinking on this.
A bloke with a big two-handed sword doesn't have to be a Dark Knight specifically, they might just be a bloke that knows a bit of magic and can swing around a big two handed sword pretty well.

That's my take on it anyway, the other people knocking about are not the super special chosen one, but they are very very good at what they do and at a glance it does look very similar to what I, the actual super special chosen one, can do.

[Tsiron]

As for other players out in the world and such, I don't know, people often seem very rigid in their thinking on this.
A bloke with a big two-handed sword doesn't have to be a Dark Knight specifically, they might just be a bloke that knows a bit of magic and can swing around a big two handed sword pretty well.

That's my take on it anyway, the other people knocking about are not the super special chosen one, but they are very very good at what they do and at a glance it does look very similar to what I, the actual super special chosen one, can do.

Granson comes to mind. He's definitely not a Dark Knight (it'd probably be known as something else on the First, if at all, regardless) but via "convergent evolution", on account of his choice of weapon, we see him with a greatsword even before what happened to him, and his subsequent inner turmoil, he's ended pretty damn close to one

how he ended up wearing Alliance gear from the Source is another issue altogether

[Anonymoose]

*sits in his rocking chair with a tall class of Crystal Light and a NERF gun, ready to fire a single dart at anyone who says BLM or WHM before SMN*

[Anonymoose]

Actually, on a more serious note, I know some roleplayers who are obsessed with this question and keep this speculative document going to try to answer it. As a lore archivist, my answer is usually entwined with the nuance that Square Enix wants you have some excuse to sensibly see yourself as any job you want to be. They deliberately leave loopholes open, so even if we can Pirates vs. Ninjas a list of more vs. less accessible jobs together, at the end of the day the most difficult one to get a hold of is just as "likely" as the easiest, from a certain point of view.