(01-12-2014, 05:00 PM)LiadansWhisper Wrote: You can disagree with me on the comparison, but as I said, it's the same thing in my eyes. Â If you're going to say, "If I can play it, I can RP it," then the thing is, I already have played Savior of Eorzea, so why can't I RP it? Â Because it doesn't make any sense?
Catch 22, don't you think?
No, it's not the same thing and no, there's no Catch-22 situation here.
Look at it logically.
How many people can be the single person who defeated Gaius, routed the Garleans, foiled Lahabrea's plans and saved Eorzea? One person can be this. The game explicitly shows you as the Chosen One. It never, ever, ever shows any other player as also being the Chosen One. It may show other players as your helper, or your friends, or hirelings... and their clients will show them as the Hero and you as the helper.
How many people can be a White Mage? How many people does the game show as a White Mage? Does the game erase every other White Mage's artifact armor and replace it with generic conjurer robes? No, it does not. Does the game hide all other Thyruses and show them to you as a plain wooden cane? No, it does not.
The game goes out of its way to indicate that you, the player, are the hero, and it takes great pains to ensure that you are the only one who looks like the hero. Of course this is worthless in an MMO, so it must be discarded. The lore surrounding white mages is also a Chosen One narrative, so it, too, must be discarded.
But wait! There's all these damn white mages everywhere now! So you can discard the offending part of the lore that relies upon Super Speshul Snowflake Storytelling (very lazy and very bad for an MMO), but that still leaves you with loads of white mages everywhere.
If someone claims to be a white mage in game and isn't a Padjal, my character will absolutely be suspicious. The Succor is not something just anyone can use. Aeri will become very, very curious, because it means that person did something exceptional to access that power. Since Aeri is a researcher of the nature of magic, this would interest her a great deal. That's such a freaking good RP hook that I'd never just throw it away.
If people want to disbelieve that another person is a white mage, then that's fine, but if the white mage manages to prove what they are ICly, and the person continues to stubbornly refuse to believe it, expect to cause OOC frustration. Additionally I probably wouldn't continue to RP with someone who refused to participate properly.
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