Well, I started on balmung because a friend of mine was like "I play on Balmung, you should too" and I was like "okay" because he was why I started playing. I didn't even know people RP'd in this game and didn't figure I'd get into it. Hell, when I encountered my first group of RP'ers, I was like "mmmmm" and just kind of... sat there... staring... for like 2 hours, as they rp'd.
Then I joined their LS. Then I met some people, and interacted with them. I was momentarily upset with not having followed the lore-given naming convention for miqo'te, but then my character told me "I left and I didn't want to keep the name they'd given me. So I changed it." And I responded to her by saying "that's alright by me."
Now I think I kind of figured that E would grow as a character to me - very rarely do I play anything where I can make my own character that I don't either gimp an old one or make a new one out of it unintentionally. Ultimately, I'm surprised I didn't go Lancer to begin with. I'm an earthy-person... or you know, like to believe that I'm close to it elementally... personality-wise... something. Shut up. And historically Dragoons are one of my favorite classes in Final Fantasy.
So why didn't I go Lancer? I don't know. But I like to think nowadays that it was the tiny initial spark of what would eventually become Emelie speaking to me. "No. I don't like to stab things. I like to punch them. Make me a pugilist." So I did.
And I fell in LOVE with Ul'dah. It's like, my favorite place in game. I love Momodi. I love Namamo Ul'namo. Raubahn is my favorite Grand Company leader and I can't stand Limsa Lominsa at all despite my character making forays into being an arcanist. I actually don't like the layout of Gridania, with all of its shards being in one half of it, like what's the bloody deal?Â
And you know... I'm okay with all that. But long story short... it was organic. I didn't intend to RP, but everything about her creation - from her hair color to her starting base class to her city - wound up fitting her exactly and I don't think I'd have been half as happy with the game as I am now if I didn't do things as I did.
Then I joined their LS. Then I met some people, and interacted with them. I was momentarily upset with not having followed the lore-given naming convention for miqo'te, but then my character told me "I left and I didn't want to keep the name they'd given me. So I changed it." And I responded to her by saying "that's alright by me."
Now I think I kind of figured that E would grow as a character to me - very rarely do I play anything where I can make my own character that I don't either gimp an old one or make a new one out of it unintentionally. Ultimately, I'm surprised I didn't go Lancer to begin with. I'm an earthy-person... or you know, like to believe that I'm close to it elementally... personality-wise... something. Shut up. And historically Dragoons are one of my favorite classes in Final Fantasy.
So why didn't I go Lancer? I don't know. But I like to think nowadays that it was the tiny initial spark of what would eventually become Emelie speaking to me. "No. I don't like to stab things. I like to punch them. Make me a pugilist." So I did.
And I fell in LOVE with Ul'dah. It's like, my favorite place in game. I love Momodi. I love Namamo Ul'namo. Raubahn is my favorite Grand Company leader and I can't stand Limsa Lominsa at all despite my character making forays into being an arcanist. I actually don't like the layout of Gridania, with all of its shards being in one half of it, like what's the bloody deal?Â
And you know... I'm okay with all that. But long story short... it was organic. I didn't intend to RP, but everything about her creation - from her hair color to her starting base class to her city - wound up fitting her exactly and I don't think I'd have been half as happy with the game as I am now if I didn't do things as I did.
