I do love the idea, but saying that, my problem is I'm not this sentimental in real life (believe me!) but when I play RPG's I play them very sentimentally.
The problem for me is I've made my three characters, one in each town, for each grand company, for each server group and for each Discipline of the land etc etc, the classes and jobs and skills will be doled out according to their personalities as I see fit.
Creating a new one would be like having a 4th unwanted child (lol, if you'll excuse the rather extreme metaphor). For the moment, and up until "End game" I don't want any new characters, I just want to get back to my experience of the game as I plan to play it.
I have my Lalafell Mage, my main guy, on the EU servers who'll do all the magic, he might fish and be a gold smith,
My Roegadyn warrior on the NA server who'll be most of the tank and warrior classes, and probably cook and mine.
And my Kick ass Hyur girl on the Japanese server who will be an archer and Lancer, kinda Freya meets Fran, except human and unassuming.
I'm currently deciding wither or not she or my Roedagyn'll get to be pugilist, wither or not the Roedagyn will be both fisher man and miner, and my Mage will not have any discipline of the land, and wither my mage or my Hyur girl gets to be the alchemist.
There is one or two jobs I fear won't suit my characters, but I'm perfectly willing to wait a bit to explore them, in time to come Yoshi-P and the team may implement expansions of new towns, new classes etc, and when I feel there is enough holes that need plugging I'll create a new character that suits the classes and jobs I've thus far not experienced.
One idea for the Bard job was to create a little lalafell version of Nobuo Uematsu going around playing song's 'n' stuff (lol)
but then I figured that was a little too two dimensional and novel.