FFXII is anti-job actually. All charicters can use pretty much all abilities, weapons, armor, ect. What more, it encourages the player to select the same skills for many charicters (because you have only a limited ammount of money usally, so its unwise to buy all magiks/skills), so what you end up with is some sort of strange cast of red mages that uses diffrent gear.
Also i hate to break it to you, but you just re did what this guy did:
http://www.ffcompendium.com/h/jobs.shtml
Also, Reeve from FF7, the controller of cait sith, could be very likely considered the first Puppetmaster. If you do some minimul research, you'll find that cait sith itself is indeed an automation, that reeve controls. Also, there is one scene in FF7:DoC where (you dont actually see it, but you can hear it) where cait sith (the cat) beats up a deepground soldier, then when reeve and cath come out, you can see between the size proportions, that it looks very simular to a Player-Automation team. The puppetmaster configuration is also said to be heavyly inspired by the Enix Rpg Slapstick (aka roboteck).
Edited, Nov 9th 2006 at 9:25am PST by Sikekiz
Edited, Nov 9th 2006 at 9:30am PST by Sikekiz