Quote Originally Posted by Yshnal View Post
Drop the aggressivity and the sarcasm a bit, okay? Just because someone quotes the last person in a conversation (since there were a couple of them going on) doesn't mean that they dislike them or want to have a "gotcha" moment against them. You assumed all that by yourself, since I just provided some data and said nothing against you or your opinion there. I might have misunderstood part of what you originally said because your wording wasn't the best (as I mentioned in the previous post), but you really seem to take this as a personal attack of some sort even after I explained it in more detail, which I'll repeat again: what's shown in the trailer (aside from the job actions) is based on the job's thematic history (cutesy flavor included), which predates the other trailer and which is always included in each job trailer. In my opinion (which is as valid as yours and doesn't imply any kind of attack against you), it was the obvious way to showcase the job and doesn't have anything to do with a trailer that Lost Ark released 4 years ago. And I'm talking about the intro here, too, by the way. Moreover, the only similarities are that both characters are females using a giant paintbrush...

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...Anyway, as I said, I'm not here to pick up any fights and you seem to actually take this way too seriously and personally. So, maybe let's agree to disagree and leave it there.
Not any more aggressivity and sarcasm than the snark and condescension that's been littered in yours. If you think I'm merely just assuming you didn't casually drop in to provide that "data" as some kind of "the more you know" trivia rather than some sort of derision or counter-argument to me daring to imply Artist's trailer even had a possibility of influencing Pictomancer's; then again I ask, why did you even feel the need to respond? If you're quoting someone, typically you are directly responding to what they said or an idea they are conveying. Discounting the fact that right off the bat you didn't even address my original point and went straight to defending Pictomancer with largely unrelated trivia. If anything, you seem to have considered it a personal attack when I said to carefully reread what you were responding to and that you seem to take it seriously enough to want to bring in history of the job- enough to have a lengthy response to my two-sentence reply. So enough of the deflecting of who's offending who.

Last I was aware, Pictomancer's thematic history (not that there's a whole lot) didn't revolve around generally frolicking about and looking as blithe as possible; naturally it's about their use of art/paint in battle. There are several other depictions in different media of characters who bring their art to life to do battle as well. And it seems to be a stretch to imply that being cutesy is just part and parcel of FF's depiction, when something as recent as Bravely Default II's Pictomancer didn't display any of that at all. I already laid-out the similarities between the beginning of both trailers, and you not acknowledging anything beyond "both have females with big brushes" and using different scenery as an example is just being willfully obtuse or splitting hairs. You realize things don't have to be 1:1 carbon copies of each other to be similar, right? Something I'm sure companies are mindful of as much as possible and know where the lines are crossed.

I'm aware that Krile's been around for a while with that outfit (which is classically more aligned with the Devout advanced job, but there is seldom overlap), but how incidental that the character representing Pictomancer has cat ears as well. But justify it however you want.

If the similarities I pointed out just flew over your head because it's not an exact copy of the other, then I'm not sure what more else can be said. It's still looking like I seemed to have hit a nerve, given the lengths you seem to be going to defend the originality/integrity of Pictomancer's reveal trailer, contrary to your claim of not taking it seriously and not wanting "to pick a fight" (ie: argue?) Obviously, Pictomancer wasn't decided on a whim when Dawntrail was in development, but 2020 is before Endwalker's release anyway, so it's a moot point.

Free to leave it as that and disagree. Figured as much that it would be that outcome from your last post; but please, miss me with the holier than thou deflection on who's taking things seriously and personally as if you aren't typing walls of text either.