(12-14-2014, 11:11 AM)Keyblade Wrote: Gaius is a wanna be Sephiroth
I think you mean Nael van Darnus. Gaius van Baelsar was against dropping Dalamud onto Eorzea. (Remember, your average Garlean just wants you to live under their rule, not be dead! Nael pretty much went 'well if we can't beat/have Eorzea, we'll just blow it up.)
OK, now to actually answer things. Hopefully, my just-woken-up brain is functioning.
As a person RPing a failed science experiment (the science worked, but it wasn't stable enough and the others either died, or were killed) who could have a lot of OP-ness, I've found I generally try to avoid RPing it out at all costs with random people. In a controlled and small group of people I know and have discussed OOC concerns with? Sure. They can see how broken Franz is. To the open-world? ....not unless SE magically decides to say what I've done exactly is lore-friendly. (Although, the recent Shiva plots in 2.4 have worked wonders for my lore-stabbing and have given me a few possible routes to explain what was done in a semi-lore-friendly manner)
In regards to the ice ability, I'm thinking it works almost like Vectors in Elfen Lied (it's an anime. Boobs and lots of violence warning if you google it). In this regard, I would want to ask how much control Aaron would have of it ICly. I mean, a creepy eye is one thing. Sprouting a bunch of tails/tentacles of ice is weird, but possibly something some arcanist-thaumaturge could accomplish. Losing control and stabbing the attacker immediately? Could get difficult. I would probably limit using them with people you know, or who are comfortable with such things first. As more people would get exposed to it, you could then maybe start using it out in the open for more public events. I've more or less had Franz's OP stuff ready since about late-spring, and it only just now has started making appearances out of the smallest groups of people.
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Side note: Special-snowflaking mindset
This is the second occurrence I've seen someone cite that "most of the community wants to be a special snowflake", but I think I'd have to disagree. If anything, what we've seen through people's reactions in other threads, posts, and general RP behavior is that anything that get's too over the top will end up causing flame wars on the forums, and avoidance in game. As such, people do tend to avoid being "that guy/girl who's extra-special". Remember, we're only the main-character of our own stories. We're but only side-characters to the other people. A special-snowflake character would imply you're also the main-character (or acting like one) in someone else's story, and that can cause a lot of toes being stepped on.Â
While I wouldn't say the general mindset is to play a bunch of average-person NPCs, using abilities beyond what we see NPCs doing leads to the WoL/special snowflake route. Having a unique character is good. Everyone needs a personality and something to make them stand out. Crazy abilities that cannot be explained away in the lore tend to distance the heavy-RPers, as there are no grounds or logical order to it. My consensus is that I'd encourage you to find something that hits more of a middle ground. The idea is cool, but to someone who's going to be very strict on the lore, they will eat you alive.Â
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Other side note: Any THM casting a meteor/flare should be looked at oddly. Those are -extremely- high-level spells that implies perfect mastery of THM, and definitely some BLM, which does rely on void magic which has fallen out of practice. As such, they should be incredibly rare. It's just as lore-breaking to be casting a spell to crash a comet down. I tend to think of it this way: Your average person (even trained/educated) probably isn't much higher leveled that say, 30. Let's remember that a bunch of late-teens and 20-somethings wouldn't compare in combat training to the seasoned adventurers who are possibly twice their age. (Even if it pretty much describes every FF character from 7 onwards)
