Final Fantasy XII victory poses

After defeating a mini-boss or a non-storyline boss, the current surviving Final Fantasy XII party members, including guests, perform their victory poses. The party stands in a formation—depending on how many have survived the battle—and the camera pans across each of them on the Congratulations screen.

The pose they perform is either a weaponless pose or specific to the weapon type they are holding, including if they fight barehanded. Each character has two weaponless poses, each performed with a probability of 1/6. There are also special cases where a character will only do their weaponless poses after defeating certain bosses.

Weaponless poses

 * Vaan drinks from a water pouch, or bites a starfruit.
 * Balthier adjusts his shirt and cuffs, or adjusts his hair and places his hands on his belt.
 * Fran looks about and clasps her elbows, or adjusts her hair.
 * Basch crosses his arms, or adjusts his gloves.
 * Ashe fixes her skirt and sweeps her hair, or stretches out her arms to the front and side.
 * Penelo dances about similar to one of her Quickenings, or does a cartwheel, or punches the air few times.

Vaan

 * Swords: stabs sword into the ground and places his right foot on the pommel.
 * Greatswords: stabs it into the ground and climbs up to squat on its crossguard.
 * Katanas: swipes it in the air a few times and stabs in into the ground.
 * Ninja swords: twirls sword before placing it back on his belt.
 * Spears, rods, staves and poles: throws weapon to his feet and kicks it up the air before catching it on his back.
 * Bows: swings to his side then places it on his back.
 * Guns and crossbows: aims weapon up, imitates shooting then places it on his back.
 * Axes and hammers: twirls and throws weapon in the air, catches it and places on his right shoulder.
 * Daggers, maces and measures: brandishes weapon and swings it about.
 * Hand-bombs: draws it out and throws it to the air.

Balthier

 * Swords: puts his foot on sword, takes out his handkerchief and brushes off his shoe with it.
 * Greatswords and Katanas: draws weapon out and twirls it before placing it beside him.
 * Ninja swords: does an uppercut before placing it on his belt.
 * Spears, rods, staves and poles: swings to the front before placing it on his back.
 * Bows: shoots out an arrow and twirls it before placing it on his back.
 * Guns and crossbows: gives a few looks on the equipment.
 * Axes, hammers, maces and measures: brandishes weapon and swings it about before putting on his shoulder.
 * Daggers and hand-bombs: throws weapon into the air, switching arms before placing it on his belt.

Fran

 * Swords: stabs the sword into the ground and places her hand on her hip.
 * Greatswords and katanas: draws them out and twirls it before placing it on her back.
 * Ninja swords: does a few moves before placing it on her side.
 * Spears, rods, staves and poles: twirls them a number of ways, then holds them to her side.
 * Bows: holds an arrow in her mouth, the bow in her left hand, before swiping her hair to the back.
 * Guns and crossbows: brings up to her face, kisses it, then turns facing away from camera, weapons held to her side.
 * Axes, hammers, maces, measures and hand-bombs: bounces weapon in her right hand, then throws them in the air and catches in left hand, then holds to her side.
 * Daggers: twirls the dagger, then throws it in front of her.

Basch

 * Swords, axes, hammers, maces and measures: swings weapon on his left before standing with the weapon on right side.
 * Greatswords and katanas: makes a great swing on his right, then gently lowers in front of him.
 * Ninja swords: swings the sword from left side to right side, before holding it still in his right hand.
 * Spears, rods, staves and poles: spins weapon around before placing it on his right.
 * Bows: lifts the bow up over head and stands with it in his right hand.
 * Guns and crossbows: makes a shooting gesture to the sky, then holds in both hands.
 * Daggers: brandishes the dagger before attaching it to his belt.
 * Hand-bombs: shakes the bomb twice before attaching it to his belt on left side.

Ashe

 * Swords and daggers: swirls in the air and holds it with blade down in front of her.
 * Ninja swords: spins in the air at side, then thrusts it behind her back.
 * Greatswords and katanas: swirls in the air and puts in front of her with blade down, holding the hilt with both hands.
 * Bows: imitates shooting an arrow and fixes her hair with her left hand.
 * Guns and crossbows: holds in front of her face, brings it to right shoulder, then down to her left side.
 * Spears, rods, staves, and poles: spins from one side to the other, then holds behind her back.
 * Axes, hammers, maces, measures and hand-bombs: swings down from her left side, spins in the air, then rests it on her right shoulder.

Penelo

 * Swords: stabs sword into ground and stands in front of it. As the camera switches angles, the sword falls down.
 * Axes, hammers, maces and measures: attaches weapon to her waist and cups her palms.
 * Greatswords and katanas: stretches while holding the weapon in both hands before bringing it to rest at her side in her right hand.
 * Ninja swords: throws ninja sword into ground and places foot on top of it.
 * Bows: imitates shooting the bow and then runs forward and holds the bow behind her.
 * Guns and crossbows: jumps up a few times holding the weapon above her head, then attaches it to her back and holds her hand out.
 * Spears, rods, staves and poles: throws weapon into the air, and then catches it and places on her back. Similar to Songstress victory pose from Final Fantasy X-2.

Guests

 * Vossler stabs his Nightmare broadsword to the ground and places his hand on the pommel.