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Caspar · **09-16-2016, 03:29 PM**

(09-16-2016, 02:56 PM)Kage Wrote: I've seen a few here and there but the only ones that really come to mind as outright -being- there in public were some people roleplaying as the Sultana and some of the Scions. I easily ignored them though I know it was hard for some others when one of them (who later was mentioned as being new) tried to force it into the open. It was cringe-inducing in a way.

I think part of the problem is that a lot of blog-related roleplay (at least those I have been exposed to on Livejournal, Tumblr, etc.) have a preference of taking established NPC canon characters and rolling with them. So I think some of these roleplayers come into FFXIV and want to engage into their usual. In these, OCs tend to be looked at with side glances. These RPs though tend to be more closed off or not forcing these types of headcanons into the public. Ask-blogs seem to be a bit of an offshoot from this which at times can be quite entertaining.

This is a good thing to keep in mind. It can be difficult to switch gears, and the RPers who started in this environment have very different standards and customs than the pen and paper/forum/aim irc crowd. A player who primarily writes fanfiction, for instance, often sees playing as an OC in an established universe as a one way ticket to suesville. It could conceivably be difficult for some of them to consider the idea of playing in a group where literally everyone is, in the strictest sense, breaking lore by introducing a named character to a world without the devs consent. Whether your character is literally the most plausible person ever that complies perfectly with all lore and is beloved by the most extreme of fanatical lorehounds, or a dimension-hopping half gargoyle mecha thri-kreen newtype wielding Soul Edge, they don't exist in the setting.

That being said, these folks will probably learn in time, and one of the ways that happens is by being politely refused, so I don't RP with them. I also try to avoid RP with people whose PCs personally know major canon characters, though that's a lot more case by case. I'm okay with two or three degrees of separation, ie I know a friend whose sister dated Thancred, etc. If you have a wall of NPC bodies between yourself and the canon character, it's a lot easier to accept it if you're fine with the RP or write it off as a rumor if you're not.

Mostly I just want to separate from the problem of abusing canon to elevate one's own character. I just try to keep in mind, however, that people from other communities see the solution to that problem differently, and try to respect that.

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