I usually like to say that Jajara doesn't have any power but it might be more accurate to say that she doesn't have a solid grasp on controlling what power she might actually have. It is generally assumed that the best things she has going for her are tenacity and discipline: she's put in a lot of time over the years studying and learning and training to become a pugilist and really that's about as far as she's probably going to go officially (unless I do get to do a lot training with an IC MNK someday, an unlikely event given she is more keen on the life of a merchant). I do like to think that she has, however, opened at least one chakra at least once in her life, but probably has no idea that she has done it much less how to do it consciously. Sort of just ... slips into the zone and "wakes up" from that when either things are done or she just can't hold onto it any longer.
With Delial I've gone with the bloodline route. Aetherial prowess is a thing in her bloodline though in her own estimation she's been shortchanged. Ultimately it's more a matter of lack of focus: she's had some training here and there, an off-shoot of arcanistry, a little bit of alchemy, and a little bit of low level thaumaturgy though she had never known those magics by those names. It was not until she had come to Limsa Lominsa for any serious length of time that she was introduced to proper arcanistry, built more on mathematics than the old vulgar sigils of her childhood, and she has had a difficult time reconciling the two. What arcanistry she can do is mostly because of memorization and mimicry than a true understanding of the art as it is at its strongest potential.
Thaumaturgy, though... that is where her heart truly belongs. She just doesn't know it yet.
With Delial I've gone with the bloodline route. Aetherial prowess is a thing in her bloodline though in her own estimation she's been shortchanged. Ultimately it's more a matter of lack of focus: she's had some training here and there, an off-shoot of arcanistry, a little bit of alchemy, and a little bit of low level thaumaturgy though she had never known those magics by those names. It was not until she had come to Limsa Lominsa for any serious length of time that she was introduced to proper arcanistry, built more on mathematics than the old vulgar sigils of her childhood, and she has had a difficult time reconciling the two. What arcanistry she can do is mostly because of memorization and mimicry than a true understanding of the art as it is at its strongest potential.
Thaumaturgy, though... that is where her heart truly belongs. She just doesn't know it yet.
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