As a completely separate alternative universe. The version of my characters you meet on Balmung are not the Warriors of Light.
But I do RP an AU with my levelling partner and their character, Shirogawa, where they are. We're already in a transformative mindset since we're putting that there are 2 "Warriors of Light", not 1, plus an additional unit of 7 other adventurer-scions who regularly support them. So we're already making changes to events and saying they happened slightly differently even if the ultimate outcome was the same - and editing dialogue to include things unique to our characters, like this [Sohm Al spoilers]. It's not that big of a leap to make other changes too.
It helps matters that Aghurlal's capriciousness is balanced out by Shirogawa's diplomatic heart, so usually they balance each other out. Together, most of the time, they come to more or less the same actions and words that the canon "Warrior of Light" does (if with approximately 20 minutes more of discussing between themselves than is portrayed in the game lol).
You'll note from that journal entry that I also had to write a lot of NPC dialogue that isn't included in the canon game... including one's OC with anything like a personality inherently means changing the canon, which is half of why I immediately knew I didn't want to RP in public as being "the Warrior of Light" (the other half being that it wouldn't be fair to others, at all, to have my character being Hydaelyn's supposedly singular Chosen).
So as far as how I handle it when I meet others, the answer is I don't. It's a separate universe altogether where my character is the Warrior of Light, and the one where he's meeting people in the streets of Limsa is a universe where the most special thing he's done is get #rekt by Ifrit.
Doing MSQ ICly is still fun, though, even if it's largely a personal && private RP. Would recommend if you ever have a character who's heroically inclined, a friend to level with, and the right mindset to keep two separate versions of the same character.
But I do RP an AU with my levelling partner and their character, Shirogawa, where they are. We're already in a transformative mindset since we're putting that there are 2 "Warriors of Light", not 1, plus an additional unit of 7 other adventurer-scions who regularly support them. So we're already making changes to events and saying they happened slightly differently even if the ultimate outcome was the same - and editing dialogue to include things unique to our characters, like this [Sohm Al spoilers]. It's not that big of a leap to make other changes too.
It helps matters that Aghurlal's capriciousness is balanced out by Shirogawa's diplomatic heart, so usually they balance each other out. Together, most of the time, they come to more or less the same actions and words that the canon "Warrior of Light" does (if with approximately 20 minutes more of discussing between themselves than is portrayed in the game lol).
You'll note from that journal entry that I also had to write a lot of NPC dialogue that isn't included in the canon game... including one's OC with anything like a personality inherently means changing the canon, which is half of why I immediately knew I didn't want to RP in public as being "the Warrior of Light" (the other half being that it wouldn't be fair to others, at all, to have my character being Hydaelyn's supposedly singular Chosen).
So as far as how I handle it when I meet others, the answer is I don't. It's a separate universe altogether where my character is the Warrior of Light, and the one where he's meeting people in the streets of Limsa is a universe where the most special thing he's done is get #rekt by Ifrit.
Doing MSQ ICly is still fun, though, even if it's largely a personal && private RP. Would recommend if you ever have a character who's heroically inclined, a friend to level with, and the right mindset to keep two separate versions of the same character.