Even within the game and the lore book, there are plenty of gaps or things like unsaid that leave room for industrious roleplayers to fill with ideas, theories, assumptions, and weirdness that collectively get referred to as 'headcanon'.
So what is your favorite - one that you've come up with to fill in something for your character's backstory, something you've heard from other folks, something you sometimes forget is not actual canon?
I messed around with the game's timeline a bit to make my character being a bard more reasonable. Wrote it as she's been a bard for a few years when in reality the actual job was only supposed to have reemerged in the past year. Due to the real passage of time since I started playing the game, I keep forgetting that isn't how it actually is.
I was also told once that there were different versions of the echo with the WoL's being them all rolled into one and on steroids. I was lead to believe Minfilia heard Hydaelyn really clearly and got the visions meanwhile Krile understood every language and was really, really perceptive. Later MSQs have seemingly proven this false and it's more that some are more sensitive to this or that part of it apparently? So I wouldn't say I kept it as a headcanon but I liked that idea better and did minor lore bending to make it work more like that for my character.
Oddly enough, I think my favorite bit of headcanon is from fellow Lalafell roleplayer Shoshopu.
In the lore, Dunesfolk used to travel around on (and live off the backs of) giant beasts. What these beasts are have never really been explained or even hinted at. Just that there's some manner of big creature Dunesfolk used as beasts of burden.
Shopu decided her family traveled on the back of the giant Adamantoise (the big ol' turtles) that you can see just sort of wandering around idly in Thanalan. And, really... I like it mostly because it... kind of works? I could totally see little Lalafellin huts and whatnot set on the backs of the shells of the Adamantoise, and they move slowly and methodically enough that you'd figure it'd be a relatively smooth ride.
And then she has the added little fun tidbit of her own Adamantoise mount being basically a baby one of the big family-carrying ones that she's raising. It just sort of... flows naturally and makes sense. It's not official canon, but it's reasonable enough that you could think it was.
My favorite headcanon wasn't in Final Fantasy, it was in WoW. One of my guild leaders was a gnome paladin! I thought he executed his character very well and made it believable that he was a Knight of the Silver Hand. I had a lot of fun RPing with him on my gnome priest and both characters were really good friends... I miss my old guild sometimes.
Sabovision.
The gold saucer saboten monitor used as a TV.
Aetherite "Transporter Accidents" are responsible for most of everyones' oddities.
Somewhere in Gyr Abania is an enclave of White Mages descended from survivors of the 6th Umbral Era.
C'mon, SE...please...
Lalafell reproduce by mitosis.
The Warrior of Light is an Alternate Universe Forest Gump. He's dumb to the point of not being able to speak most of the time, but luckily he got through life by being really good at charades and having thick plot armour. The scions and other groups make him do all their quests and chores for them to make him feel useful.
(11-15-2017, 05:27 PM)Nebbs Wrote: [ -> ]Aetherite "Transporter Accidents" are responsible for most of everyones' oddities.
That would actually explain a lot.
I wouldn't say favorite, just the only one I can think of atm... but dragoons still being in service to fend off leftover servants of Nidhogg and corrupt dragons etc.... Anything to allow or have reason for a dragoon to at least exist, maybe not in service but just exist more than what our lore has :I.
(11-16-2017, 04:53 AM)Arashin Kujqai Wrote: [ -> ]I wouldn't say favorite, just the only one I can think of atm... but dragoons still being in service to fend off leftover servants of Nidhogg and corrupt dragons etc.... Anything to allow or have reason for a dragoon to at least exist, maybe not in service but just exist more than what our lore has :I.
I thought that was canon? Doesn't the game explain all the dravanian enemies still out there as remnants of the horde? I think the lore book also said there's still like 10 dragoons in active service.
(11-16-2017, 05:26 AM)Mermaid Wrote: [ -> ] (11-16-2017, 04:53 AM)Arashin Kujqai Wrote: [ -> ]I wouldn't say favorite, just the only one I can think of atm... but dragoons still being in service to fend off leftover servants of Nidhogg and corrupt dragons etc.... Anything to allow or have reason for a dragoon to at least exist, maybe not in service but just exist more than what our lore has :I.
I thought that was canon? Doesn't the game explain all the dravanian enemies still out there as remnants of the horde? I think the lore book also said there's still like 10 dragoons in active service.
The first part probably is but the 2nd part is mainly why I want to see more dragoons about than just the few we can physically see and count on our fingers. Idk, just seems too few... and having to loophole around the "active" part of that feels silly. I guess my headcanon is more, there's more dragoons out there than just the active ones? Idk lol.
Miqote who act like and insist they are cats all have a hereditary and eventually fatal brain condition which leads to delusions of fancy, the desire to lick ones own body, and at the final stages, they may only be able to speak in various forms of "Nyah~" and "Kyaa~".
Look upon them with pity :<
Hremfing and Gundobald from Little Ala Mhigo are a kawaii old man couple and nobody on this planet can change my mind about this entirely unfounded headcanon