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[justpassingby]

Insofar as having Celes possibly standing around and chanting before unleashing holy hell....   You got CHANTING figured out?  

The hard part is to make the character MOVE before switching over into the chanting pose, because the chanting pose is just a 'redefined' idle pose which is supposed to be frozen in place until the attack.

Not really.

For example:
Celes or whoever is my magic caster decides to perform their magical attack will have the animation of moving forward, do the chanting animation for a few frames, cast said magic, a separate target animation will happen (at least I hope it would as I have not tested that yet, just the magic casting animation), my magic caster then turns around and heads back to her original position and prepares to have another turn again.

Only flaw to that is the they do their magic casting on the same turn instead of waiting for a few more turns of chanting while the monsters and allies doing their things before the magic caster finally attacks.
So, no. I have not figured out how to do the actual chanting.