The whole RPG schtick of ATB bars is a bit of a logic fail. We're just all used to it now.
"I'll just stand here for 20 seconds before I attack some more."
It does make more sense than hacking and jumping around all day without ever getting tired.
This twenty-year-old boy was distinguished from childhood by strange qualities, a dreamer and an eccentric. A girl fell in love with him, and he went and sold her to a brothel...