Yeah, SE's done us no favors with that. There are still people (and I'm among them) that don't count the Lightning event as canon. It's not that it's automatically a bad character angle, it's that it's so often done in the worst possible way. There are people out there that just won't give you the chance.
Like you, I believe that you should RP about what's fun for the people involved, and the haters can just not get involved and do their own thing, and certainly in a perfect world that would be the case. Like I said, nothing's going to stop you from playing the character you want to play exactly how you want to play them. Given the stigma that a dimension-hopping character has, though, my concern is that you might not find the community as welcoming as you might hope.
That said, we have all manner of character based on others. My own character has a menagerie of characters in other media that inform him and have inspired me to play him. Few here would consider that controversial.
I really do wish you the best and hope you have a blast RPing in FFXIV! If you see me around, feel free to say hi!
Like you, I believe that you should RP about what's fun for the people involved, and the haters can just not get involved and do their own thing, and certainly in a perfect world that would be the case. Like I said, nothing's going to stop you from playing the character you want to play exactly how you want to play them. Given the stigma that a dimension-hopping character has, though, my concern is that you might not find the community as welcoming as you might hope.
That said, we have all manner of character based on others. My own character has a menagerie of characters in other media that inform him and have inspired me to play him. Few here would consider that controversial.
I really do wish you the best and hope you have a blast RPing in FFXIV! If you see me around, feel free to say hi!
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