So... as those who've read the "What does your character ride?" prompt over in Character Development know, L'yhta often rides an old, patched up, heavily modified Reaper around. That's something that should raise some eyebrows, especially in places where adventurers aren't a significant part of the population (as they would be in Revenant's Toll). Despite the fact that it's painted a garish metallic gold and the rider is most definitely not wearing Garlean colors or gear, I expect and welcome people looking weirdly at it, because it is weird. 
I generally view it as something that NPCs view as strange, a bit scary, and somewhat off-putting, and that L'yhta is generally fairly oblivious to that. I don't see it as something that would get her attacked because it would take a lot of errors to mistake it or its rider for a Garlean, but I'm sure it results in some hassles for her entering villages, and she typically has to hide it a bit away and walk when traveling -- or, if she's really concerned about it, she'll just take her chocobo.
In the general sense, I don't really mind what people ride so long as they have a narrative justification for it. There's lots of stories for how one could acquire a trained coeurl, run into a baby behemoth, overfeed a chocobo, etc. Rarity doesn't bother me because we're already playing rare beings (successful adventurers, even excluding the rarity of the Echo). In much the same way that the popularity of miqo'te (by lore, rare) isn't thrown because player characters make up a tiny percentage of the Eorzean population, "special" mounts retain their rarity because their riders are a tiny percentage, too.
Though, honestly, that means strange mounts should probably get even more raised eyebrows than they do. However, we also have to remember, IMO, that Eorzea is weird, wild, and magical place, where gods are summoned, intelligent machines wield laser cannons, ancient clones guide people into battles with 30 foot tall genetically engineered beings from thousands of years ago, and portals open up between dimensions. Weird is the norm in many ways, I think.
I generally view it as something that NPCs view as strange, a bit scary, and somewhat off-putting, and that L'yhta is generally fairly oblivious to that. I don't see it as something that would get her attacked because it would take a lot of errors to mistake it or its rider for a Garlean, but I'm sure it results in some hassles for her entering villages, and she typically has to hide it a bit away and walk when traveling -- or, if she's really concerned about it, she'll just take her chocobo.In the general sense, I don't really mind what people ride so long as they have a narrative justification for it. There's lots of stories for how one could acquire a trained coeurl, run into a baby behemoth, overfeed a chocobo, etc. Rarity doesn't bother me because we're already playing rare beings (successful adventurers, even excluding the rarity of the Echo). In much the same way that the popularity of miqo'te (by lore, rare) isn't thrown because player characters make up a tiny percentage of the Eorzean population, "special" mounts retain their rarity because their riders are a tiny percentage, too.
Though, honestly, that means strange mounts should probably get even more raised eyebrows than they do.
However, we also have to remember, IMO, that Eorzea is weird, wild, and magical place, where gods are summoned, intelligent machines wield laser cannons, ancient clones guide people into battles with 30 foot tall genetically engineered beings from thousands of years ago, and portals open up between dimensions. Weird is the norm in many ways, I think.
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