Thought I'd upload a video of what I've been working on. This footage includes a cut scene that takes place at James's house, introducing a new character: his daughter Castille. A battle starts at the end of the video, but battle animations for the enemies are not yet completed, so right now as you can see the battle is quite buggy (the enemies look like James) and I cut the video right after it starts.
The character you're playing as during this scene, Veris, is a private detective who helps James out. He's snarky, analytical, and confrontational. This will be the first battle you fight as him. His observational skills are my excuse to make him into a blue mage. Also, as is revealed in this scene, he's crippled and can't use weapons. The notes in my design sheet about him literally just read "Dr. Gregory House, blue mage".
His style of learning blue magic is a little unusual, and I might make another blog post about it later if people are interested.