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RE: Disaster! SE just ruined your headcanon! - ExAtomos - 07-07-2016
Any time more Hellsguard lore is added, I'm in for a bumpy ride. lol. Hell, I've already had some "well shit" moments when I find a new-to-me tidbit of lore hiding in game.
Otherwise, I think I'm okay since I keep things pretty low-key. Some things that may mess me up: the slave trade does not exist at all, all black mages are inherently good guys, no one can befriend Ala Mhigan refugees, voidsent don't exist any more, trade caravans aren't a thing since all merchants can teleport their goods at will...
RE: Disaster! SE just ruined your headcanon! - Verad - 07-07-2016
(07-07-2016, 12:46 PM)Warren Castille Wrote: SO. I'm bumping this thread. It's been a year, we've had a lot of new people join since then and we KNOW there's a lore book coming down the line. So, fine people of the RPC, I ask you once again:
What's the worst thing SE could make official canon that would disrupt or destroy your current roleplay?
Basically anything to do with the metaphysics of being turned into a Padjal beyond what we already know would mean having to bend backwards to make a six-month long plotline make sense, but otherwise I'm good. Verad is preparing to get mixed up in Ishgardian politics for Reasons, and the move to parliamentary republic is actually more of a boon than a bane.
RE: Disaster! SE just ruined your headcanon! - Kellach Woods - 07-07-2016
(07-07-2016, 12:46 PM)Warren Castille Wrote: SO. I'm bumping this thread. It's been a year, we've had a lot of new people join since then and we KNOW there's a lore book coming down the line. So, fine people of the RPC, I ask you once again:
What's the worst thing SE could make official canon that would disrupt or destroy your current roleplay?
2 posts above yours, broski. It all remains the same.
Although I might introduce canon Brickman because I'm a dumbass.
RE: Disaster! SE just ruined your headcanon! - Teadrinker - 07-07-2016
"Well, that's what you get for RPing headcanon and pushing it on people. Try following the lore next time."
Fin.
RE: Disaster! SE just ruined your headcanon! - Verad - 07-07-2016
(07-07-2016, 01:54 PM)Teadrinker Wrote: "Well, that's what you get for RPing headcanon and pushing it on people. Try following the lore next time."
No thank you.
RE: Disaster! SE just ruined your headcanon! - Leggerless - 07-07-2016
If the Au Ra really are Dragonborn...
Oh. My. God.
I would have a hayday over this and convince every single Au Ra I see to be singers, lawyers, priests, or general orators and hold sway over EVERYONE!
It would be amazing and you know it.
RE: Disaster! SE just ruined your headcanon! - Nodem - 07-07-2016
If the only villages to exist in Doma were the Ninja guy's (drawing a blank on his name atm), and Doma. That'd effectively kill Yuki and Aoi's village and possibly story. Though I'd just move them adjacent to doma and/or that village mentioned previously.
Or that... Doman hyurs and raen's don't coexist and live in the same villages... Guess it'd be a special snowflake situation were sisterly bonding formed on a battlefield or something...
Most of my stuff works within lore or has something within lore backing it up... There's a few things that could majorly break it, won't say what, but I can find a work-a-round with the stuff SE already has in place. Especially since, as mentioned prior, most of my stuff works within lore...
OH OH! I do have a good one though... It'd hurt a lot of people... Myself included.
ONLY Hyur and Elezen can cross-breed.
Edit:
(07-07-2016, 02:10 PM)Leggerless Wrote: If the Au Ra really are Dragonborn...
Oh. My. God.
I would have a hayday over this and convince every single Au Ra I see to be singers, lawyers, priests, or general orators and hold sway over EVERYONE!
It would be amazing and you know it.
I would have a field day with this lore... Fun fact; If you ever see me emote Aoi humming, she's humming The Dragonborn Comes most of the time.
https://youtu.be/Ly-dWbwfpRI
RE: Disaster! SE just ruined your headcanon! - As'elena - 07-07-2016
The Maelstrom not being the best Grand Company would break my heart
In all seriousness though.. I reckon I would just go with the flow. SE is god in this universe and while I definitely cross speculation borders sometime (Kinda inevitable in FFXIV really), I never go outright against something that is black on white fact.
RE: Disaster! SE just ruined your headcanon! - Caspar - 07-07-2016
I had a bunch of these but I realized if Square needed to contradict itself to make my headcanon impossible, it might not really qualify for the thread. Instead, I'll put my one totally headcanon idea out there, and dare Square to shoot it down.
There is no way to make mapo tofu in this setting, or a functionally equivalent dish.
Come at me.
In general I am vague where I need to be and specific where I feel there's text that makes a reasonable case. None of these are irreplaceable plot elements and I have contingencies for all of them in the back of my mind. I won't be bothered by getting contradicted. In situations like these, you simply adapt.
RE: Disaster! SE just ruined your headcanon! - V'aleera - 07-07-2016
(07-07-2016, 01:54 PM)Teadrinker Wrote: "Well, that's what you get for RPing headcanon and pushing it on people. Try following the lore next time."
Fin.
All roleplay is headcanon.
RE: Disaster! SE just ruined your headcanon! - Shoshopu - 07-07-2016
I think the worst thing SE could do is declare something like... Dunesfolk 100% definitely stopped being nomadic 100+ years ago, but even then that wouldn't be too bad, because I already play Shopu's family as the last scions of their culture, given that we're shown exactly zero nomadic Dunesfolk roaming around on the backs of things. If they give an exact date of when adamantoises arrived in Eorzea from Thavnair and it's less than 100 years ago, that would be a much bigger wrench in things
Alternatively, they make Gridania a whole lot less racist than it currently is said and shown to be. That'd derail a couple of my characters a bit, especially Awyrbyrt, whose entire character conflict is that he's basically the equivalent of a first-generation immigrant and wants to be a Roegadyn Wailer (not a Twin Adder guy, but specifically a Wood Wailer)
RE: Disaster! SE just ruined your headcanon! - Gabineaux - 07-07-2016
With the new lorebook on the horizon I forsee a lot of things being overturned for a lot of people. I think my character should be relatively safe...
RE: Disaster! SE just ruined your headcanon! - Gegenji - 07-07-2016
(07-07-2016, 09:33 PM)Arvid Greave Wrote: With the new lorebook on the horizon I forsee a lot of things being overturned for a lot of people. I think my character should be relatively safe...
As long as it doesn't state "Lalafell can't be from Doma" I think I should be good with Chachan. Gogon... well, if they officially hint to Calculators (which I think Arcanists are kind of a spin of anyway so *shrug*) I'd be intrigued... and probably keep going with his own little thing because it's only hinting towards that. And Judge is... Judge.
RE: Disaster! SE just ruined your headcanon! - Gabineaux - 07-07-2016
(07-07-2016, 09:57 PM)Gegenji Wrote:(07-07-2016, 09:33 PM)Arvid Greave Wrote: With the new lorebook on the horizon I forsee a lot of things being overturned for a lot of people. I think my character should be relatively safe...
As long as it doesn't state "Lalafell can't be from Doma" I think I should be good with Chachan. Gogon... well, if they officially hint to Calculators (which I think Arcanists are kind of a spin of anyway so *shrug*) I'd be intrigued... and probably keep going with his own little thing because it's only hinting towards that. And Judge is... Judge.
I think I read somewhere the lorebook is mostly going to be about the monsters? I guess? Which can only be GOOD for my character because he's supposed to know crap about monsters and I hate having to think of monster headcanon. I mean for the most part, for beasts, you can just draw from reality but for voidsent it's like ??? there's bits and pieces of lore here and there.
Either way I'm looking forward to the lorebook.
RE: Disaster! SE just ruined your headcanon! - Chompie - 07-08-2016
I am actually having trouble thinking of headcanons of mine they could snap with a well-placed lorebomb. A lot of the handwavey stuff I've put together has been about aetherology, and generally when it comes to aether stuff, SE's approach seems to be "Does it at least loosely fit in to the basic rules and stuff we've used? GOOD ENOUGH, doesn't have to be perfect! Aether can do anything!"
I guess there are a couple bombs they could drop that would give me a headache.
- A sudden major loredrop about mistakes in novice aether use: not likely and would probably mess me up
- Word that, actually, even though Eorzea is steeped in aether, ludicrously few people can even use it to make a sharp thing hit harder. Whatever, we can all be snowflakes.
- SE abruptly decides that Aether Stuff ™ is actually nothing like electrodynamics at all.
It's all stuff that would be a pain in the ass, but wouldn't really cause irreparable damage to my character.