SE kinda already did. I made my character with that in mind.
NOTE: You'll be metagaming if you "find out" what I'm going to say without actually working with me on this.
Franz is Garlean. As in, he's a pure-blooded Garlean, can't use aether, has the third eye, grew up in Garlemald, blah blah.
BUT! BUT!!! BUT I've seen Franz healing people with a book at the Grindstone and stuff!!
-yup- I went there. Franz can do magic-y things.
So! How'd I get around that? (The truth is, I never really needed to).
Franz never actually had the inherent ability to use aether. He never learned any spells, went to mage school, or any of that. What he did do was act like a dumbass and sign up for an experiment in Garlemald for artificial aether reserves. You know, like a magitech device that would draw in aether and then allow someone to weild it. Aether comes in, magic goes out. (For FF8 players, think sorta like the draw system). But it was a prototype. And it broke. Poor Franz. The Garleans deemed the thing a failure, killed the couple other surviving test subjects, and left him to go die in the desert after someone capable of magic basically fried his brain.
So this big angry hyur wakes up with a mind-splitting headache, a broken magitek device jammed somewhere in his body or maybe some personal aetherial field (like a soul) or something, and no memory of who he is. And he's highly unstable. That magitech thing is just not working properly. But he kept fighting on.
Fast forward through LOTS of just -wonderful- events and suffering, and we've got a person who's kinda sorta figured out how this device worked tacitly, had a few "accidents" with people who were more knowledgable, and has gotten control of his life aether. Sorta. He goes around casting spells without really knowing why they work, but he has a visceral understand of how they're supposed to work. So he just wings it and makes his own as he goes. Totally safe.
small edit: That's just the tip of the iceberg. Find out more in RP! (maybe)
NOTE: You'll be metagaming if you "find out" what I'm going to say without actually working with me on this.
Franz is Garlean. As in, he's a pure-blooded Garlean, can't use aether, has the third eye, grew up in Garlemald, blah blah.
BUT! BUT!!! BUT I've seen Franz healing people with a book at the Grindstone and stuff!!
-yup- I went there. Franz can do magic-y things.
So! How'd I get around that? (The truth is, I never really needed to).
Franz never actually had the inherent ability to use aether. He never learned any spells, went to mage school, or any of that. What he did do was act like a dumbass and sign up for an experiment in Garlemald for artificial aether reserves. You know, like a magitech device that would draw in aether and then allow someone to weild it. Aether comes in, magic goes out. (For FF8 players, think sorta like the draw system). But it was a prototype. And it broke. Poor Franz. The Garleans deemed the thing a failure, killed the couple other surviving test subjects, and left him to go die in the desert after someone capable of magic basically fried his brain.
So this big angry hyur wakes up with a mind-splitting headache, a broken magitek device jammed somewhere in his body or maybe some personal aetherial field (like a soul) or something, and no memory of who he is. And he's highly unstable. That magitech thing is just not working properly. But he kept fighting on.
Fast forward through LOTS of just -wonderful- events and suffering, and we've got a person who's kinda sorta figured out how this device worked tacitly, had a few "accidents" with people who were more knowledgable, and has gotten control of his life aether. Sorta. He goes around casting spells without really knowing why they work, but he has a visceral understand of how they're supposed to work. So he just wings it and makes his own as he goes. Totally safe.
small edit: That's just the tip of the iceberg. Find out more in RP! (maybe)
