(05-20-2017, 07:31 PM)undefined Wrote:(05-20-2017, 07:31 PM)Kerrath Wrote: i'm gonna level with you dude, your idea is a far departure from what's familiar in final fantasy.Different opinion time! This snippet caught my eye for few reasons, but core of it boils down to how I view FFXIV: like an ultimate FF theme park! Wherever I turn, there is cool references and eastereggs calling back to classics and this side, to me, makes Hydaelyn as roleplaying environment too, more fun, more inviting. Is my view of Hydaelyn of serious, factual accuracy above everything else valuing flavour? No and yes. I have caught the spirit of playfulness developers of this game have towards whole FF franchise, and in many ways this spirit makes me more concerned of having fun time and coming up with fun stories, and if it takes a little bending of rules and lore, that's fine by me.
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To my point: if we view the concept "incorporeal/extradimensional being possessing/manipulating/impersonating as someone or something else" purely as trope, I do not think it sound alien to FF at all!! Cagnazzo as king of Baro, just Zemus, Garland made Zidane act weird at Pandemonium, Shuyin's will affected pyreflies at Den of Woe and Ultimecia possessing and manipulatig other Sorceresses throuh time. Just examples, without going too much into technicalities, it's same trope taking different forms. I think these and so many other even better examples at least demonstrate my point. Even in XIV, beside mentioned succubuss cases, the aether oil quest miqo'te lady was possessed by spirit (was it late Allagan citizen?), later half of Dark Knight has us searching high and low more about the spirit of dragon inside Rielle and thaumaturge questline has that loser Coco brother pretty obviously possessed by some kind of malevolent spirit.
So, personally would not bat an eye at next case of foreign spirits or other incorporeal things inside someone at FFXIV, maybe even possessing them!!
Onwards. Let's, for sake of argument, examine those fair warnings that most likely good number of roleplayers, with more mundane and lore abiding characters, might not be interested in writing with op's character. But who would? "Demonhunter" type of characters come in mind, and "dark mystic" types, but pool for those is smaller, op just needs to find someone relaxed enough with lore. In sense, I do not see difference here, good roleplay comes with good match of right players, and if op is at Balmung, which takes pride in it's diverse communiy, I do not think there is much to worry about.
Then criticism time. Which is bit weird, since I admit being the kind of hack who actively browses literature, history and music for inspiration. I'm not familiar with Parasyte, but I guess the title alone gives away enough about that manga. Whether player is concerned with lore or not, anyone had hard time taking ninja named Naruto seriously, if you catch my drift. Possessions are not unheard of, as this thread has confirmed, but going into such detail kind of is. Again, I can only speak for myself, but if I were introduced to character, who is... let's say ahriman possessing roygadyn to have more practical, less...well, voidal vessel to interact with mortals of Hydaelyn to feed off the viciousness of Eorzea's rotten underbelly, I actually could not have problem with accepting that combination of ideas. Unorthodox? Maybe, but not too foreign, which I think is the key here. Parts which make up your character I think are best introduced in order from simplest to more complex and unbelievable, to kinda trap people on path that makes them accept the fantasy you have created. Herein lies the reason why I find so many super detailer character profiles dull, becase they lack any subtlety to hold my interest, even worse if good chunk of that profile is information I would be absolutely hyped about if I found those things out while roleplaying and being in that completely different state of mind.
As op's character is just feels bit disjointed and dare I say "edgedark"... not even because of that posession by decapitation, but because in the void, in realm of nothingness  teeming with predatorial demons, there apparently in little enclave of proto-civillized beings like krasue who care enouh to send one of their own to religious exile. Even in group of lesser yet special demons, there is one even more special. And dammit, I want to emphasise that if I was writing that sort of "demonhunter" character stuck in company and of op's character, and then in this hypothetical rp there would be this character building moment where my character would learn about op's characters actually very sad history? I would eat it all, no breaks in suspension of disbelief here.
This is already too long post, I've lost this text like 3 times for being mad enough to write this on my ancient tablet. Need to do something aboug my tendency to go on with rambling. Two advices I can give you. Continue working with this character, phase out obvious references to manga without deleting them (it is not cool to have glaringly odd reference, but it is exiting to figure out that something actually is reference). That should make your character more acceptable to wider audience. Or find friend to plan and plot with, to come up with this awesome custom rp experience just for you, the kind which is unlike to happen spontaneously. Good luck and sorry for some harsh rethoric here and there in this monster of reply.
EDIT Looks like I ended up quating myself? Fixing this on tablet will probably be more work than it's worth...
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