(06-06-2015, 05:52 PM)Lilia Lia Wrote: If any of you think this is going to beat back the tide of IC Fantasia, then I think you're severely underestimating people's willingness to come up with novel justifications for Fantasia. I actually don't think I've ever met someone who "drank the Fantasia potion" and that was the story of their race change.
It's not even just IC fantasia. It's pretty much every heavily debated lore topic. (Like WHMs, people being Azure DRGs or DRGs out of Ishgard, or, or...etc. It could go on FOREVER). And really, it's ultimately up to the RPer and the people RPing with that RPer to judge if something should be ok. We (calling out everyone here) really have no obligation to forcibly include someone or their view on the lore if we -really- do not agree with it. It's a gradient. Likewise, I'm just as free to point to whatever sources are in my favor for a given topic, or to only RP with the people who have a similar view of the game.
Realistically, even if people suddenly stopped calling it fantasia, they'd just find some other way of using a fantasia in an IC fashion, whether it was as simple as plastic surgery, a sex change operation, or some wacky aether hijinks that somehow morphed a person entirely. The realism faction is not particularly high with this concept. It is stated in the game that people can effectively break down their bodies into aether, which is how teleportation works. Why then, could a person somehow not "accidentally" or perhaps purposely, teleport and come out different? Wouldn't it only need some advanced aetherial manipulation then? For a serious or plot-driven storyline, such things are just as plausible and possible.
A gimmick character isn't going to care what the lore says, and will likely keep using fantasia potions IC if they find it fun.
