Just a little fun brain-teaser I thought might be fun to go into.
I unlocked Ninja on Chachan basically for the dork-run and to be able to summon the Rabbit OOCly whenever I wanted to. Recently in an RP, however, I had the little Lala dressed up in the holiday outfit talking about how he was going to be helping out a holiday event for kids. I then made a way for the Rabbit to be there ICly for Chachan: "Bunnytrick" - which amounted to basically the bog-standard "pull a rabbit out of a hat" deal. One of the other people I was RPing with then claimed Chachan knew Ninjitsu, and he had to reveal how he did the trick. Hat with a flap of fabric that hid a plush rabbit toy; mystery solved.
It was a fun little way to be able to have the little goofball use an ability I love and potentially use it to entertain/cheer up his friends when they're bummed out. Which is also perfectly Chachan. Doing so, however, has got me thinking about how someone could alternately explain how they're using other abilities... if they're actually using them at all!
So, let's embrace our inner charlatan and try to figure out ways someone in Eorzea could make it look like they can do something they can't! Faking a Dragoon jump with a trampoline? A pile of rotten wood punched through to show off a "One-Ilm Punch"? Some Rube Goldbergian monstrosity that ultimately makes what LOOKS like the summoning of an Egi? Let's get creative!
I unlocked Ninja on Chachan basically for the dork-run and to be able to summon the Rabbit OOCly whenever I wanted to. Recently in an RP, however, I had the little Lala dressed up in the holiday outfit talking about how he was going to be helping out a holiday event for kids. I then made a way for the Rabbit to be there ICly for Chachan: "Bunnytrick" - which amounted to basically the bog-standard "pull a rabbit out of a hat" deal. One of the other people I was RPing with then claimed Chachan knew Ninjitsu, and he had to reveal how he did the trick. Hat with a flap of fabric that hid a plush rabbit toy; mystery solved.
It was a fun little way to be able to have the little goofball use an ability I love and potentially use it to entertain/cheer up his friends when they're bummed out. Which is also perfectly Chachan. Doing so, however, has got me thinking about how someone could alternately explain how they're using other abilities... if they're actually using them at all!
So, let's embrace our inner charlatan and try to figure out ways someone in Eorzea could make it look like they can do something they can't! Faking a Dragoon jump with a trampoline? A pile of rotten wood punched through to show off a "One-Ilm Punch"? Some Rube Goldbergian monstrosity that ultimately makes what LOOKS like the summoning of an Egi? Let's get creative!
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