(06-17-2015, 01:58 PM)Magellan Wrote: Playing a machinist before the technology reached Eorzea would have raised a lot of eyebrows, just as having been a race all along that just recently got chased out of their homeland and into eorzea will do the same thing.
Mm, not so much. There's been plenty of RP with folks using guns (and even finagling with Magiteknology) since the technically already existed and were accessible to some degree - Merlwyb uses a pair of pistols, and the THF quest line added a gun-toting Lala. Just like there have been fortune tellers who look like they're picking up AST because it fits the aesthetic for something they're already bplaying. Not to mention there have been plenty of other folks playing their characters close to other, non-existent classes - Spellblades, Sages, and I even play a FFTA-style Judge with... err... Judge and Chachan is kinda Samurai-esque.
There's a less... suspension of disbelief, I suppose, needed for someone having picking up a gun at some point and using it over suddenly becoming a whole new race. The latter requires more explanation - changing into it due to shenanigans with magic, body-swapping, and so on... or the "we were in disguise" route. And, since this is a relatively new thing, retconning that they've been covering up the entire time sounds messier than just saying they were glamoured the entire time.
Which is what brought the whole glamour situation to the forefront of my mind, and thus the creation of this thread.
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