Alexandra Leyland

I'm a woman, and I usually play female characters. I had more men than women for a couple years, but now... literally every character I have in FFXIV is a woman, so maybe it was a phase?

I don't mind my character being powerful in the main story. That's not the story I'm going with for her, so it hasn't got much effect on me. It's more of a... neat side thing than anything else.

This game has had a heck of a lot of dimension-hopping, between the numerous crossover events and Gilgamesh in the Hildibrand questline. So, with all that precedent, it seems to me like even real sticklers for lore shouldn't reasonably have that much opposition to it as a concept in RP, especially in the case of characters from FFXI coming to Hydaelyn. Anyway, even if you don't like the idea, you can always just not RP with people who're using it in their RP. You'll both find other people you'll get along with better.