Ouch. Tough crowd. Guess I'm playing devil's advocate.
To be honest, almost everyone has had, at one point or another, a horrific hodpodge of an idea, character, story, roleplay, whatever. Hell, I was playing FFTA when the last of Stephen King's Dark Tower books were coming out. I ended up writing a 200 page document outlining 4000 years worth of characters and history, complete with creation myth, about the gunslunger descendants of Lini the Moogle on their noble quest to free Sequence from the Tower.
It was dumb, but looking back, it was about as fun then as it is cringeworthy now. I was all of fourteen or so years old, amd I loved what I had made. Still do.
The trouble with RPing in an MMO environment is that it's like the playground: the rules are there to keep as many ppl happy as possible, and in cases like these, the easiest rules to enforce are the ones everyone knows. That means no things like Godzilla rising from Vesper Bay to fight Bahamut, or Cloud Strife fighting Ryu Hayabusa across Ul'dah's rooftops, no matter how cool those things might be. Can't have them because "that wouldnt happen in the real FFXIV".
tl;dr: silly backstory is silly, and none of the other kids at the playground will want to hang out with you because you took their Legos and made the Jetson's spaceship in the middle of Bedrock.
You are the little boy.
The rest of us are Will Ferrell.
To be honest, almost everyone has had, at one point or another, a horrific hodpodge of an idea, character, story, roleplay, whatever. Hell, I was playing FFTA when the last of Stephen King's Dark Tower books were coming out. I ended up writing a 200 page document outlining 4000 years worth of characters and history, complete with creation myth, about the gunslunger descendants of Lini the Moogle on their noble quest to free Sequence from the Tower.
It was dumb, but looking back, it was about as fun then as it is cringeworthy now. I was all of fourteen or so years old, amd I loved what I had made. Still do.
The trouble with RPing in an MMO environment is that it's like the playground: the rules are there to keep as many ppl happy as possible, and in cases like these, the easiest rules to enforce are the ones everyone knows. That means no things like Godzilla rising from Vesper Bay to fight Bahamut, or Cloud Strife fighting Ryu Hayabusa across Ul'dah's rooftops, no matter how cool those things might be. Can't have them because "that wouldnt happen in the real FFXIV".
tl;dr: silly backstory is silly, and none of the other kids at the playground will want to hang out with you because you took their Legos and made the Jetson's spaceship in the middle of Bedrock.
You are the little boy.
The rest of us are Will Ferrell.
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