1.x had retainers, and they served to hold and sell your goods back then, too. The lore on them is that they're hired by the Adventurers' Guild to adventurers with proper authorization to help manage their affairs. The fees are paid by the Guild for all services except ventures, which are paid using Ventures (which, presumably, the retainers can exchange for gil somewhere).
Beyond that, you can pretty much do whatever you like, I think. If you wanted your retainers to be refugees, for instance, that'd work, but other options exist as well. By way of example, one of L'yhta's retainers was her master's retainer as well, and he's chosen to let his contract follow to the apprentice. Her other retainer is a relative who followed her to Limsa Lominsa and is working as a retainer while he learns the ropes of adventuring and combat.
EDIT: To the original question, yeah, I've been there. I had an extremely happy-go-lucky character in CoH who had an extremely dark backstory, and through the course of RP, things just got increasingly dark for her as she became more and more isolated. It got to the point where I just didn't want to RP her any more. The solution was to just put her aside for a bit and switch to an alt that wasn't so beaten up. :/
Beyond that, you can pretty much do whatever you like, I think. If you wanted your retainers to be refugees, for instance, that'd work, but other options exist as well. By way of example, one of L'yhta's retainers was her master's retainer as well, and he's chosen to let his contract follow to the apprentice. Her other retainer is a relative who followed her to Limsa Lominsa and is working as a retainer while he learns the ropes of adventuring and combat.
EDIT: To the original question, yeah, I've been there. I had an extremely happy-go-lucky character in CoH who had an extremely dark backstory, and through the course of RP, things just got increasingly dark for her as she became more and more isolated. It got to the point where I just didn't want to RP her any more. The solution was to just put her aside for a bit and switch to an alt that wasn't so beaten up. :/
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