Newp. Â Not into it.
Don't get me wrong, I'm fine with them doing it but I wouldn't participate. Â I might watch tho.
I don't think that EVERYONE should play some nobody/bland/vanilla background character. Everyone is a somebody once you get to know them. Â But most of us are not nationally or even regionally known. Â I personally wouldn't have clue one how to portray a famous person or someone with great political influence.
My reluctance to encountering someone playing an NPC is that my character MIGHT have already established a relationship them. Â This would be a relationship that the NPC player would not know anything about. Â And the more important the NPC, the more likely it is that other players have established relationships with that character in their own head canons. Â And why should they have to substitute that canon for someone else's interpretation?
My character tends to stay off the map and deals with persons, places, and things that are based on the MSQ & side quests but doesn't necessarily follow any of it. Â I'd never suggest that Mia has an ongoing feud with Zana Lyehga because in the MSQ, I'm pretty sure I killed her. Every one on the Gladiator quest line has killed Zana Lyehga. Â But, Mia does have an ongoing feud with a Miqo'te who is more or less identical to Zana Lyehga.
But it would be weird to see someone playing Zana.  But because she's somewhat low on the totem pole of NPCs, I'd be more likely to RP with them than someone playing Minfilia or Admiral Bloefhiswyn.
Don't get me wrong, I'm fine with them doing it but I wouldn't participate. Â I might watch tho.
I don't think that EVERYONE should play some nobody/bland/vanilla background character. Everyone is a somebody once you get to know them. Â But most of us are not nationally or even regionally known. Â I personally wouldn't have clue one how to portray a famous person or someone with great political influence.
My reluctance to encountering someone playing an NPC is that my character MIGHT have already established a relationship them. Â This would be a relationship that the NPC player would not know anything about. Â And the more important the NPC, the more likely it is that other players have established relationships with that character in their own head canons. Â And why should they have to substitute that canon for someone else's interpretation?
My character tends to stay off the map and deals with persons, places, and things that are based on the MSQ & side quests but doesn't necessarily follow any of it. Â I'd never suggest that Mia has an ongoing feud with Zana Lyehga because in the MSQ, I'm pretty sure I killed her. Every one on the Gladiator quest line has killed Zana Lyehga. Â But, Mia does have an ongoing feud with a Miqo'te who is more or less identical to Zana Lyehga.
But it would be weird to see someone playing Zana.  But because she's somewhat low on the totem pole of NPCs, I'd be more likely to RP with them than someone playing Minfilia or Admiral Bloefhiswyn.
Carne armum ergo sum.
