Personally, I avoid/try not to interact with people RPing as named "important" NPCs. It's kinda the whole reason NPC is a non-playable character. We don't know how Square Enix may change/affect that character, so RPing one is a caricature at best, in my opinion.
Should that stop other people from having fun RPing one? No. My "fun" is not more important than theirs. But they also don't need to occur in the same space. At best, I'd treat it like the people who walk around Hollywood (yeah, I'm a local) dressed up as movie characters. Cool to take a picture/screenshot with, but I'm not going to ICly react as if they are tat NPC. Especially not when I see 5 Haurchefants all in a party together.
Should that stop other people from having fun RPing one? No. My "fun" is not more important than theirs. But they also don't need to occur in the same space. At best, I'd treat it like the people who walk around Hollywood (yeah, I'm a local) dressed up as movie characters. Cool to take a picture/screenshot with, but I'm not going to ICly react as if they are tat NPC. Especially not when I see 5 Haurchefants all in a party together.
