This thread is making me feel a lot comfortable with taking a more firm attitude towards fantasia in RP. It's comforting to know I'm not the only one who thinks that the proper response would be to treat the person as a completely different person. Since IC actions have IC consequences, people should be prepared to deal with the fact that some won't simply accept their story at face value. Regardless of OOC acceptance, IC "disbelief" is a fair response, I think.
My RP circle has been hit hard by Fantasia-mania since HW, but I've also seen it done before, and it's been awkward having to react to it, because it is a major change. I've heard the "glamour" explanation thrown around a lot, or "experiment gone wrong" is another one I hear pretty often. One of my regular RP partners also has fantasia as a part of his backstory (he told me after we meet that he used to be a different race). With the regularity with which people make it part of their stories it's starting to just be part of the world as the result of player-lore... in Eorzea, people race change and it happens all the time, usually for elaborate reasons.
Suddenly, race changes have become even more common, and this time into a race nobody's ever seen before. It's the kind of thing that would make a sensible person say "there's something going on here." But the problem is that the "something" that's going on goes beyond the game universe so we're approaching "my character knows she lives in a video game" territory.
I don't know what I'm going to do quite yet. The thing is, RP related to race changes is something I don't find fun. It's just ridiculous to me and it doesn't really evoke the same kind of plausible character interaction that I have come to enjoy in RP. So for that reason I may just accept it after some preliminary obligatory "wow you race changed" RP and then move on to the kind of RP that I find more enjoyable.
If I play the disbelief card I can't help feeling like it's going to completely define my RP with that person going forward and dominate all of our interactions from then on. If I do that I run the risk of losing interest in RP with that person altogether, because "race change" as a premise is just not interesting to me. It's like the RP equivalent of an "Animorphs" novel. So I'll probably just bite the bullet and move on.
My RP circle has been hit hard by Fantasia-mania since HW, but I've also seen it done before, and it's been awkward having to react to it, because it is a major change. I've heard the "glamour" explanation thrown around a lot, or "experiment gone wrong" is another one I hear pretty often. One of my regular RP partners also has fantasia as a part of his backstory (he told me after we meet that he used to be a different race). With the regularity with which people make it part of their stories it's starting to just be part of the world as the result of player-lore... in Eorzea, people race change and it happens all the time, usually for elaborate reasons.
Suddenly, race changes have become even more common, and this time into a race nobody's ever seen before. It's the kind of thing that would make a sensible person say "there's something going on here." But the problem is that the "something" that's going on goes beyond the game universe so we're approaching "my character knows she lives in a video game" territory.
I don't know what I'm going to do quite yet. The thing is, RP related to race changes is something I don't find fun. It's just ridiculous to me and it doesn't really evoke the same kind of plausible character interaction that I have come to enjoy in RP. So for that reason I may just accept it after some preliminary obligatory "wow you race changed" RP and then move on to the kind of RP that I find more enjoyable.
If I play the disbelief card I can't help feeling like it's going to completely define my RP with that person going forward and dominate all of our interactions from then on. If I do that I run the risk of losing interest in RP with that person altogether, because "race change" as a premise is just not interesting to me. It's like the RP equivalent of an "Animorphs" novel. So I'll probably just bite the bullet and move on.
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