History Characters / StrangerOfParadiseFinalFantasyOriginWarriorsOfLight

* DoomedByCanon: This version of them anyway. As they're Chaos and the Four Fiends, they're already doomed to die in the original ''Final Fantasy'' [[spoiler:and this game's true ending]] to the Warriors of Light. [[spoiler:Possibly subverted depending on the player's choice in the third and final DLC ''Different Future''. If Jack chooses to not stay true to himself and instead pursue Nil's crystals at the Moogle's behest, he will defeat the Warrior of Light at the end of the game, leading to a chain of events that has him and the Warrior of Light replacing the gods of Discord and Harmony, respectively. It's unclear if their influence is limited to World B or all the worlds connected by Rifts]]

** In the Alternate ending of the final DLC , Different Future, Jack by himself kills his way through the Lufeanian's ranks into becoming the God of Discord after absorbing the Crystal. Doing this he accomplishes the same goal he set without the Warriors of Light, as he's ensured that the events of the original Final Fantasy never need to happen at all as the Lufeanians no longer exist.

** This is more so in the alternate ending of ''Different Future'' where he makes the choice to become the God of Discord, which means he'd be in charge of all that goes wrong in the future, but he seems to have no intention of being any different when offered the role.

* PassingTheTorch: After the Warrior of Light defeats him in ''Different Future'', he curtly voices his approval, and tells him not to fail in fixing the world where he couldn't.

** If you choose the alternate route at the prompt of the Moogle in ''Different Future'' it becomes a [[DeityOfHumanOrigin Protagonist Journey to Godhood]] , if nothing but by accidental choice.

* TrueFinalBoss: The absolute final stage of a branch of the ''Different Future'' DLC is an inversion of the first DLC's, where you instead play as the Warrior of Light and battle this version of Garland instead.

* DoomedByCanon: This version of them anyway. As they're Chaos and the Four Fiends, they're already doomed to die in the original ''Final Fantasy'' [[spoiler:and this game's true ending]] to the Warriors of Light. [[spoiler:Possibly subverted depending on the player's choice in the third and final DLC ''Different Future''. If Jack chooses to not stay true to himself and instead pursue Nil's crystals at the Moogle's behest, he will defeat the Warrior of Light at the end of the game, leading to a chain of events that has him and the Warrior of Light replacing the gods of World B.]]

* EarnYourHappyEnding: By virtue of the first ''Final Fantasy'' ensuring EverybodyLives after the Warriors of Light break the StableTimeLoop and Garland explicitly having a HeelFaceTurn in the new present. Jack will no longer be doomed to continue being Chaos to serve as a BarrierMaiden for the Lufenians' weaponized darkness, and finally get a chance to live a happy life with Sarah as her knight. What happens to the rest of his party is unfortunately unstated.

* SirSwearsALot: He gives [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Barrett]] a run for his money as the most foul-mouthed character in a ''Final Fantasy'' game, or at least [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXVI up until that point]]. Most of the F-bombs come from him.

* TrueFinalBoss: The absolute final stage of the Different Future is an inversion of the first DLC's, where you instead play as the Warrior of Light and battle Garland instead.

* SirSwearsALot: He gives [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Barrett]] a run for his money as the most foul-mouthed character in a ''Final Fantasy'' game. Most of the F-bombs come from him.

* SlasherSmile: Cracks a big wide smile while performing the second [[FinishingMove Soul Burst]] [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice on the]] [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Black Knight boss.]]

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* FightingYourFriend: Near the end of the game after Sarah's death, Jed, Ash, Neon, and Sophia suddenly turn on Jack and he has to fight every single one of them to the death as darkness and chaos begin to overwhelm him, as part of ThePlan to turn him into Chaos and save the world from the Lufenians. They taunt him and egg him on to keep fighting and eventually kill them, or they'll kill him first. Jack can't remember at this point, but it was all his idea, and at the end of the game when he is Garland and they are the Four Fiends, their plan successful, there are no hard feelings from any of them.

* MultiMeleeMaster[=/=]TheMusketeer: While Jack's the only example in single player, playing multiplayer allows any of them to access any job class and weapon effectively making them carbon copies of Jack. It certainly makes the team [[SocializationBonus seem a lot stronger than they already are.]]

* {{Irony}}: After spending the whole game trying to find it, telling his fellow companions that Chaos is a real, living being, [Jack finally gets to fight the physical the manifestation of Chaos ...and doesn't seems to care one bit about fighting him, only wanting to kill it so that he can absorb its darkness. This is right after Jack has found about the [[GreaterScopeVillain Lufenians]] being the true cause of all this and right when he no longer desires to "kill Chaos", that he's now given a physical representation of Chaos to fight.

Five disparate adventurers, led by a man named Jack, attempting to fulfil the Warrior of Light prophecy to vanquish the fabled source of all darkness, Chaos, and in the process restore the corrupted Crystals that once brought peace and prosperity to the lands. However, it quickly becomes clear that Chaos and his allies the Four Fiends do not yet exist as we knew them in Final Fantasy, and the path our heroes find themselves on is an [[ProtagonistJourneyToVillain altogether darker one...]]

* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: It can be assumed from the Lufenians situation in ''Final Fantasy'', with only a few Lufenians from the Flying Fortress now living in exile after Tiamat/Sophia attacked, that after becoming Chaos and the Four Fiends 2000 years in the past, the party made good on Garland's promise that they'd be back to wipe out the GreaterScopeVillain Lufenians, leaving ''Final Fantasy'''s Warriors of Light free to only face Garland as the BigBad rather than deal with any GreaterScopeVillain.

* {{Bishonen}}: He has softer facial features than his two male companions.

* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: To the Warrior of Light of ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy''. The Warrior of Light was TheCape, a gallant paragon of virtue and heroism who fought valiantly to save the world from Chaos and refused to back down or be dissuaded no matter what challenges he faced. Jack is a KnightInSourArmor at best, a snarky and angry man who is on a quest to kill Chaos for personal reasons, but in his own way he's just as determined in his quest as the Warrior of Light was in his.
** The Reveal of the plan to become Chaos cements that Jack is actually TheCowl to the traditional Warrior of Light's Cape

* LargeHam: In the game's finale, Jack goes full DrunkOnTheDarkSide and launches an attack on the Lufenians' pocket dimension, hamming it up all the way as he declares he'll take their power and drown Cornelia in darkness. While it was revealed to be largely an act, he was clearly having fun being the bad guy.
** Even when he realizes/remembers what the true plan was, he hams it up, laughing before cutting off his old Bosses' control over the Dimesnsion.

* LoveMakesYouEvil: The end of the game reveals that everything he has done was driven by his first love. In a previous TimeLoop Princess Sarah and Jack fell in love. And Jack, unwilling to see Sarah and her people continue to suffer for the sake of the Lufenians' dominance, hatched a plot to take control of the Lufenians' ForeverWar by becoming the controlling entity of their monsters, Chaos, and then playing the GenericDoomsdayVillain to be able to train an actual set of Warriors of Light, instead of the Lufenian FakeUltimateHero he was, all while playing out the 'joke' scenario he and Sarah talked about.

* TheHeart: Besides being the plucky comic relief...He's the one who encourages Jack to actually LOOK at his memories.
** He's also the most eager about being a heroic and respected Warrior of Light ... as well as the one who's most disappointed by how their attempts at heroism only seemed to lead to turmoil in the kingdom and the ire of its people.

** SadClown: ...Also the most insecure member of the Warriors.

* BareFistedMonk: Ash's preferred weapons are knuckle dusters for close combat, and starts off as a Pugilist that graduates to Monk.

* OlderThanTheyLook: Not drastically, but according to the [[AllThereInTheManual official script book released with the Japanese collector's edition]], Sophia is the oldest of the party at 37[[note]]Coincidentally, this ties her with [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIVTheAfterYears Rosa]] for oldest playable female character in the series who isn't supernaturally young[[/note]], but she could pass for being in her [=20s=], perhaps due to being a Lufenian. The next oldest, Jack, is five years younger than her.

* HeroicSacrifice: Non-fatal version. She willingly surrendered to the darkness, so that the Warriors of Light would defeat her and no one would have to look for Chaos again. Turns out this was actually the right idea...she just wasn't the person who could do it.

* RatedMForManly: Possibly the most masculine main protagonist in the series yet between his deep gruff voice, [[SirSwearsALot foul mouth]], [[HeroicBuild strong, muscular build]], [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown absolutely brutal fighting style]], love of fighting, and single-minded determination in reaching his goals.

* PluckyComicRelief: He provides most of the comic relief in character dialogue.

* BladeOnAStick: Her primary melee combat job is Dragoon and later Breaker, and she utilizes various lances and polearms with ease.

* NinetiesAntiHero: A {{Deconstruct|edCharacterArchetype}}ion of one to be precise. Jack has a bad attitude, a predisposition towards violence, tends to deliver ShutUpHannibal interruptions to monologuing bad guys, and has a single-minded obsession with killing Chaos. Every single one of these traits is a result of serious MindRape at the hands of the Lufenians, who erased his memory and essentially left him as a near blank slate. With his memories back, Jack is surprisingly kind and thoughtful as seen in his relationships with Sarah, Astos and his party. His obsession with Chaos is also the result of programming by the Lufenians to participate in their ForeverWar rather than of his own genuine desire. Essentially, every single trait that is normally associated with this archetype is meant to make Jack not look like a cool hero, but a victim of powers beyond his control reducing him to a parody of the person he once was.

* HeroicSelfDeprecation: While he shows no signs of this in the present, in a flashback as a Lufenian, he views himself as being a nobody, the least useful of his peers, and as a liability despite being as equally skilled as his peers as noted by Astos. Apparently being the Lufenian equivalent of a commoner is probably the cause of some of his insecurity. That and having to work with someone as [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter obscenely skilled and powerful as Jack.]]

** There's also the matter of the pirates of Provoka who've grown restless due to the way that they've saved the Water Crystal to be the last to be restored, resulting in the seas becoming too windy to sail safely. According to Astos, they even wonder if the Warriors of Light are conspiring with the King to ruin them.

* NiceGirl: Aside from maybe Jed, she is the most outwardly kind of the party and shown to be very supportive of her friends, especially if Jed is the target of teasing or he's getting ignored. That said, early on she openly states she does not respect Jack, and her official bio on the website says she sometimes clashes with him. Later on, though, she becomes closer with the party.

* TheUnchosenOne: Of the party, she's the only one not from Lufenia. Rather, Astos gave her a crystal as part of his and Garland's plan.

* DeadpanSnarker: Along with Jed. She's full of quips as you make your way through various dungeons and monster hordes.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Her having the ''exact'' same NinetiesAntiHero motivation as Jack is one of the first big hints that there is something more going on with the heroes' quest than just the bog-standard SavingTheWorld.

* TrueFinalBoss: The absolute final stage of the Different Future is an inversion of the first DLC's, where you instead play as the Warrior of Light and battle Garland instead.

* {{Reconstruction}}: Of the original Garland, who for all his might and grandeur, was little more than a pawn to demonic forces he could barely perceive. Jack starts the story likewise, but manages to use that same strength to fight his way to a kind of freedom.

* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: He a Garland from a world that appears to be the original ''Final Fantasy'', who eventually abducts Princess Sarah and holds her hostage in the Chaos Shrine. Though there are signs that this isn't the original FF game timeline including this Garland knowing from the beginning he was Chaos when he kidnaps Princess Sarah, he's also able to easily defeat the tradtional Warriors of Light even after they are given a plot relevant power boost. The Producers confirmed this world is Not the original game's world but a parallel, so it unknown what exactly the world is going toward.

* BecomingTheMask: Given Garland's musings in the original ''Final Fantasy'' about how he will forget his transformation and being sent back in time by 2000 years and in light of how many times Jack and the party have forgotten things as a result of constant deaths and resets in ''Origin'', it's implied Garland and his party genuinely become villains and forget their good intentions as part of their ZeroApprovalGambit to ensure the Warriors of Light defeat them.