(03-16-2016, 03:32 PM)Val Wrote: How many people are claiming to have killed primals in their backstories? Separately? Those things must be summoned on a daily basis.
You say that jokingly, but the game suggests that they're being summoned quite a bit -- all part of the Ascian plan, you see. That's a discussion for another thread, though.
I don't think it's helpful to the argument against having relationships with canonical NPCs to equivocate things that can absolutely exist in the setting but that have a power level you dislike (fighting primals and limit breaks) with people essentially taking over others' characters and asking other RPers to hew to their interpretation of how those NPCs act -- which is exactly what RPing that you're besties with a canonical NPC is doing. Ultimately, that's the reason why having connections to canonical NPCs rubs people the wrong way. It's seizing control of part of the setting.
To tie this back to the WoL, it's even worse with him (her?) because of the position the WoL holds in the story. The WoL is every character and no character. We see the WoL as our character in the cutscenes and the other NPCs do as well; the trailers and other media have this hyur guy standing in as the WoL (maybe, perhaps, we assume). It's impossible to pin down anything about the WoL other than the consequences of the events in which he/she participates. Add that to all the other problems with getting involved with canonical NPCs and it just turns into a big mess.
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