WoL Job Headcanons!

[Marxel]

A headcanon I have is that the voidsent we bond with as a Reaper is actually our counterpart from the 13th - the Shard consumed by Darkness (aka now the Void). I was a little let down by the Reaper quests not giving us more one-on-one time with our voidsent so I made my own.

What do you think? Does anyone have any bits of lore they made for their WoL regarding jobs?

[Enkidoh]

I don't have a headcanon with any particular Job specifically, but more involving the Armoury System in general, specifically dealing with the marid in the living room that is why the WoL regularly is forgetting abilities and spells they previously were using due to SE removing abilities or changing the battle system specifically (i.e. scrapping the cross-class ability system and replacing it with 'role abilities').

And what I came up with is story-wise at least, my WoL is being pragmatic and simply is not using them by choice - in my character's case as a GLA/PLD old Conjury spells she could use before (under the Cross Class system) like Cure might have been suitable when she was still early in her career as an adventurer still recovering from her near-death in the Calamity when she was usually just fighting nothing more frightening than an overgrown flytrap, but now, as the WoL facing down gods and anthropromorpthic-personifications at the very edge of the universe, the band-aid healing Cure gives just does not cut it anymore, so she doesn't bother with it, especially with the holy healing Clemency gives is just far more effective.

Same goes with weaponskills like Rage of Halone that are replaced at higher levels, or skills like Shield Swipe that were removed, she can still use them story wise, but just doesn't bother with them for pure pragamatism where higher level skills like Blade of Valour are just so much more useful, and so she sticks with them exclusively.

[Cleretic]

My headcanon is that the canonical 'trailer Warrior of Light' is extremely self-centered and impatient. Consider: The closest thing he gets to playing support is starting as Archer in 1.0. However, the time we next see him in a cinematic is the End of an Era scene, where he's a Warrior. What happened between those two? Well, jobs got introduced and Archer became the support-angled Bard.

After this point, we see him with an even amount of experience with tanks (Warrior in 2.0, Dark Knight in 5.0, Paladin in 6.0) and melee DPS (Dragoon in 3.0, Monk and Samurai in 4.0). But note that through all of this the only melee DPS job he dodged, outside of Reaper which is one expansion old, was Ninja--the only melee DPS with low personal damage output, because it's designed with more of an angle to support. Dragoon got more of that later with Dragon Sight, but remember that came in Stormblood, and the WoL was only a Dragoon in 3.0. In fact, only with 6.0 has Trailer WoL actually touched a job with cast times.

This is completely unrelated to the thread, but there's my WoL job headcanon: that Trailer WoL is the kind of guy that outright refuses to play anything that he doesn't perceive as 'party leader'.

[Jandor]

I'm kinda hoping to see him as a caster or healer in 7.0.

I was hoping we'd see him as Summoner in the 6.0 trailer, the summons could provide the required physicality for epic CGI clashes.

Titan bursting forth from trailer-WoL to block an attack, he swaps to Ifrit who charges and knocks back the foe, then pulls out Bahamut for a big blast of magic, done. Cut to Y'shtola or whoever.

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As for job headcanon, my WoL is preternaturally gifted at using job stones, but pretty damn terrible at actually memorizing the techniques held within. Hence forgetting everything as soon as she puts down the stone.

[Gemina]

My own headcanon definitely depicts the WoL as a melee job, which includes the tanks. When we return to Garlemald after our journey to Elpis, I couldn't even imagine doing the solo instance as anything but a tank. If I would have shown up like the hero of the day only to toss out some Broils or Chakrams, it just wouldn't be as fitting. I can make an exception for a melee job like SAM or MNK, but then the bosses attention would've been on G'raha. Unacceptable in my head.

WoL just does not strike me as a supporting role in even the slightest.

[redheadturk]

My own WoL is a Summoner main, and I headcanon that he has put so much of his personal aether into his Carbuncle that it has practically gained sentience and can be pretty much a persistent presence.

[Selvokaz]

I have more than one character so it varies, and I like the idea of them just being an Adventurer and that when they first arrived in their respective cities, they then choose a guild/fighting style, and that when you got to the point where you could join another guild they decided to be a member of all guilds because they couldn't be satisfied without trying to be the best in every arena, they are total fighting junkies who live for the thrill of combat in all its forms.

[KariTheFox]

Most of the scions are incredibly smart, academic types, so I like to think of my WoL as the "dumb jock" type to round out the cast (she's not actually stupid, just maybe a bit scatterbrained at times, but I can't think of a better way to describe the archetype I have in mind) It's why I'm always thrilled with dialogue choices that let me express that kind of character, and subsequently stick to tank roles.

And she loves fighting and rising to the challenges in front of her, and believes in the power of friendship. If SE is gonna write the WoL as an anime protagonist, might as well lean into it.

[Recon1o6]

Personally Avarnia would still use all her nasty and fun stuff eg scourge, time dilation, shadowflare etc but given she's often fighting with the scions now and coincidentally it was when shb's ripped away everything fun in a lot of jobs, she's got to hold back since they only just recently started knocking out primals and similarly strong beings with her and she doesn't want to catch them in the cross fire.

She hasn't touched a job stone in some time outside of reaper and sage, and only those to understand the basics of their weapons. She prefers to learn on her own rather than risk being weakened because a job stone got broken like drk's did in Stormblood.


Her preferred method of fighting would be an astrolabe and rapier, or a two handed weapon, preferably one of them gunlances she picked up when she visited her Rathalos' homeland. If not, a gunblade, halberd or scythe will do.
If she's able to fight at full strength, then a two handed greatsword is also fun (as in, heavensward drk please)

[Selvokaz]

Did anyone else pick Alcohol as their WoL go-to beverage of choice?