In my youth I did cop that surname from good ol' Spike. You could argue his tenacity as well, but JJ is far from being a Spike Spiegel.
ICly move, no. In fall of 2008, the computer I played FFXI on took its final dive and I said "screw MMOs, I'm in college" and I didn't pick up a single giant ass game like it until I graduated in May 2012 (Diablo 3 then Borderlands 2, as well as picked up Fallout 3 and Skyrim, etc). The difference from FFXI and FFXIV lore is crazy, but to the core, JJ is the same. Just retconning some stuff and adapting some of JJ's backstory (and actually changing it. But I've not gotten to that at all). The JJ that will appear on Crystalline will be the same JJ to those that were around in old Crystalline time. Just, you know, older, (balder?) and balder. (Yes, I said it twice)
Some of the old Crystalline (FFXI) folk have adapted their characters to FFXIV, choosing a 20-25 year leap (pre ARR) in time. Eva (originally Dyterium in XI) and Isilime (Hirilonde) aged their FFXI folk by that much and retconned stuff that didn't fit XIV lore, but their personalities and respective relations remained the same. It is my knowledge that Isilime (IC Oldman Hiri) kept the fate of various FFXI Crystalline folk ambiguious to allow future returners (such as myself) a bunch of room all the while keeping the memory of them there.
ICly move, no. In fall of 2008, the computer I played FFXI on took its final dive and I said "screw MMOs, I'm in college" and I didn't pick up a single giant ass game like it until I graduated in May 2012 (Diablo 3 then Borderlands 2, as well as picked up Fallout 3 and Skyrim, etc). The difference from FFXI and FFXIV lore is crazy, but to the core, JJ is the same. Just retconning some stuff and adapting some of JJ's backstory (and actually changing it. But I've not gotten to that at all). The JJ that will appear on Crystalline will be the same JJ to those that were around in old Crystalline time. Just, you know, older, (balder?) and balder. (Yes, I said it twice)
Some of the old Crystalline (FFXI) folk have adapted their characters to FFXIV, choosing a 20-25 year leap (pre ARR) in time. Eva (originally Dyterium in XI) and Isilime (Hirilonde) aged their FFXI folk by that much and retconned stuff that didn't fit XIV lore, but their personalities and respective relations remained the same. It is my knowledge that Isilime (IC Oldman Hiri) kept the fate of various FFXI Crystalline folk ambiguious to allow future returners (such as myself) a bunch of room all the while keeping the memory of them there.
