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Siliconparody · **05-20-2017, 06:29 PM**

Obviously right off the bad, this isn't a 100% lore-friendly character one bit, so if you like characters that are lore-abiding, stay away! D:

I like to be more liberal with lore, but I also want to try making a character whose identity as a character isn't merely "look at meeeee I'm Void person!". Inspiration for this character comes from the anime/manga Parasyte, where she's a creature who owes her existence to leeching off of something else, and tries to find purpose in a world that is inherently hostile to her by its very nature.

Name: Moth Yorha
Occupation: Infiltrator/Investigator
Gender: Female
Race: Void Parasite ('Called Krasue')
Alignment: Neutral Evil (but see below)
Age: 90
Physical Description: Moth's current host body is that of a female Xaela with red skin and long, black hair. Her 'true' form isn't something I've figured out yet, but it's probably going to be something based off of the mythological penanggalan or krasue.

Bio: Within the Void lives a race of creatures called the Krasue. They are not high on the hierarchy within the Voidsent, considered little more than vermin. Despite this, or because of this, they worship the Void itself as a sort of mindless ur-being, and believe that, if all of existence become one with the Entrails of Creation (as they call the Void), then they, the chosen, will ascend to divinity in the new existence. This religious belief is organized around a 'church' called the Null Tapestry.

The Krasue named Moth saw things a little differently. She did not love the Light---it was, after all, antithetical to her entire existence, down to her aetheric dust components---but she believed that her kind would not ascend to divinity if all became Nothing. Everything would just become...nothing.

Branded a religious exile, Moth sought refuge in Hydaelyn when she realized she was able to take over the bodies of the people that lived there and hide amongst them. It was a gruesome process: it involved decapitating the victim, whereby Moth would then attach herself to the spot where the head was, taking over the body. This had to be done within seconds after the victim's head left the body, while the heart was still beating, since Moth cannot animate corpses. The host body is still very much alive...just minus their original head.

Having escaped religious persecution, Moth is very unsure on how to proceed in this world. She must operate within a world bathed in Light, full of people with morals that she has only just begun to understand. If she was to have any concrete goal, it would be to find purpose to her existence.

Personality: Moth's morals are a bit hard to pinpoint, being a creature from the Void. For example, she does not see anything wrong with forcefully taking over people's bodies to preserve her existence, especially in so gruesome of a process. Her curiosity about the "Lightcrawler's realm" tends to let her be an idle observer to acts of cruelty and bloodshed.

However, Moth is not an inherently cruel individual. She does not suck up the aether from others like many voidsent, since her host body is more than enough to sustain her. On top of that, she has begun forming bonds of friendship with several "Lightcrawlers" that she would never idly stand by and watch if they came to harm. She understands emotions as concepts---you won't find her asking "what is this, 'love', you speak of"---but has trouble expressing that she feels them. For example, if someone tells a joke that you find really funny, you're probably going to laugh or smile as an unconscious action. If Moth found that joke funny, she would have to make a conscious effort to show that she did by laughing or smiling. It's not that she doesn't find the joke funny, merely that unconscious body language that other people take for granted is something she must consciously act on.

Having existed for only a mere 90 years, Moth is young by Voidsent standards. She is by no means stupid,Â but she does possess a naivety about the new world she lives in, about very basic assumptions that other people already have.
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Basically, Moth runs on this trope.

Some meta commentary: I don't want to turn her into a "chaotic good Drow that opposes her evil kind!" like Drizzt or anything. And she's not a particularly powerful Voidsent, much less so now that she's on Hydaleyn, so while I'm aware I'm taking a LOT of liberties with lore here, hopefully her not being some kind of hidden aether god or something offsets what I am confident is already a special snowflake of a character.

Any advice or feedback is appreciated. This is a WiP character; I've only recently began RP'ing with her, and I like organic character development, so nothing's set in stone.

LiadansWhisper · **05-20-2017, 06:51 PM**

Well, since you said you're not interested in RPing a lore-abiding character, I'm not sure what advice anyone could give you?

I mean, I suppose I could offer the proven advice of, "Some people will refuse to RP with you."

Virella · **05-20-2017, 06:54 PM**

Succubi are body snatchers to some degree (just bodies of dead women as far as we know), we know that voidsent are capable of making them look like regular beings trough glamour magic I believe.

But I don't really have anything to add either!

Ellmida · **05-20-2017, 07:16 PM**

I'm not clear with what you are looking for in terms of advise or approval, since you've statedÂ that this is right out of the gate not a lore friendly character and don't plan on making her one, I guess that helps narrow it down?

I'm aware of Parasyte and I get where you're trying to go with it but I actually feel the removing the head part is borrowing too much and really not necessary for the concept you are trying to work with, plus it leaves too much to explain to those not familiar with the story(which never fully explains the premise itself).

I would say you can drop the specifics while still keeping the idea of what you're trying to manage.

Siliconparody · **05-20-2017, 07:17 PM**

(05-20-2017, 06:51 PM)LiadansWhisper Wrote: Well, since you said you're not interested in RPing a lore-abiding character, I'm not sure what advice anyone could give you?

I mean, I suppose I could offer the proven advice of, "Some people will refuse to RP with you."

Yeah I totally get the latter part, it's completely understandable.Â I guess what I was asking for is feedback on what I have personality and background wise so far.

Basically I'm trying to have a character that, while isn't something that exists in current lore, could conceivably exist in it (i.e. not playing as something lore breaking, like an inter-dimensional traveler from Earth or something). I know this is dangerous territory to get into and again, it wouldn't be everyone's cup of tea. I'm just trying to put it through a filter of, "does it sound probable, even if, strictly speaking by all current available lore, currently impossible?".

Probably should have added this, but her goals aren't particularly bizarre or alien or anything, since I feel like I need an actual character to establish before going into that stuff. So her goals include things like, trying to make certain lemonade combinations in drinks, serve as an infiltrator/investigator to some patron, and so on. The void body snatching stuff is a big part of this character's identity, but I don't want it to be overbearing, if that makes sense.

Kerrath · **05-20-2017, 07:31 PM**

i'm gonna level with you dude, your idea is a far departure from what's familiar in final fantasy. you say that you dont want it to be overbearing, but there's no way it wouldn't be overbearing. it'd overshadow every other detail about your character.

if you go through with this, it's your business and you can do what you want, but you should absolutely expect roleplaying to be a monumental task and calling it an uphill battle would be an understatement.

Siliconparody · **05-20-2017, 07:47 PM**

(05-20-2017, 07:31 PM)Kerrath Wrote: i'm gonna level with you dude, your idea is a far departure from what's familiar in final fantasy. you say that you dont want it to be overbearing, but there's no way it wouldn't be overbearing. it'd overshadow every other detail about your character.

if you go through with this, it's your business and you can do what you want, but you should absolutely expect roleplaying to be a monumental task and calling it an uphill battle would be an understatement.

I do appreciate not sugercoating it and being on the level. My main character Ruka is 100% lore friendly (other than the whole, weird Allagan tech/astromancy stuff, but I'd think that is another beast entirely), so I promise this isn't a trend of mine! This is just something of an experiment.

If it ends up being too much of a hassle to roleplay, even after doing some modifications based off of feedback here, I'm not adamant on keeping her.

Kismet · **05-20-2017, 08:13 PM**

Ellmida and Kerrath already beat me to half of what I would've said, so I won't reiterate those points. Instead, I'm going to touch on something else. My main question after reading the whole thing is... Why?

What do you feel you'd specifically be achieving with this character concept that you'd be unable to do without all of the Voidsent headcanon? If the reason isn't much more robust than "I really liked Parasyte and wanted to do something equally cool in the same vein", that's fine and you're welcome to it... but I'd be worried about a potential lack of depth.

Whenever I see stuff like this, I'm always more curious about the motivations behind the decisions rather than the specifics of what they consist of. Perhaps you have a partner you'd be engaging in this with who shares your though process, so you could get it off the ground and it'd allow you both to explore something you couldn't otherwise. That's swell. However, if you were planning on engaging randoms with this... it might be a hard pill for most to swallow.

All that being said, I do have a fondness for Blue/Orange Morality in characters. It's one of my favorite components of anything Lovecraftian. And the almost nonchalant gruesomeness of the body snatching process, while perhaps somewhat unnecessary, gives me some slight Junji Ito vibes which could be fun to explore in the FF14 setting. (It wouldn't even be entirely out of place, either. Given things like Edda and Avere's lovely little story...) With the right partner and/or group, maybe you've got the start of something worth refining and expanding upon here.

Siliconparody · **05-20-2017, 08:28 PM**

(05-20-2017, 08:13 PM)Kismet Wrote: Ellmida and Kerrath already beat me to half of what I would've said, so I won't reiterate those points. Instead, I'm going to touch on something else. My main question after reading the whole thing is... Why?

What do you feel you'd specifically be achieving with this character concept that you'd be unable to do without all of the Voidsent headcanon? If the reason isn't much more robust than "I really liked Parasyte and wanted to do something equally cool in the same vein", that's fine and you're welcome to it... but I'd be worried about a potential lack of depth.

Whenever I see stuff like this, I'm always more curious about the motivations behind the decisions rather than the specifics of what they consist of. Perhaps you have a partner you'd be engaging in this with who shares your though process, so you could get it off the ground and it'd allow you both to explore something you couldn't otherwise. That's swell. However, if you were planning on engaging randoms with this... it might be a hard pill for most to swallow.

All that being said, I do have a fondness for Blue/Orange Morality in characters. It's one of my favorite components of anything Lovecraftian. And the almost nonchalant gruesomeness of the body snatching process, while perhaps somewhat unnecessary, gives me some slight Junji Ito vibes which could be fun to explore in the FF14 setting. (It wouldn't even be entirely out of place, either. Given things like Edda and Avere's lovely little story...) With the right partner and/or group, maybe you've got the start of something worth refining and expanding upon here.

I am part of a RP Linkshell that's already pretty liberal with lore with their characters so I created this character only thinking about the people in that Linkshell and the people they RP with the most. But I also wanted to consider trying to make the character work outside of that Linkshell, too. Which,Â as you and Kerrath have pointed out, is not going to be easy, hence why I decided to try throwing it out there for feedback.

I will admit in being a fan of Lovecraftian and Junji Ito stuff that influenced this character's creation. Parasyte is an inspiration only in how I want to model the character's personality: something who tries to exist in a world where the very fabric of it is hostile to her existence.

The idea was to have a creature that, while it doesn't quite entirely defy its instincts of surviving at any cost, isn't inherently hostile to people that live on Hydaleyn and tries to struggle with this alien nature to try to connect with the inhabitants of a world that's at least somewhat familiar (since the Void is the ruin of one of the mirror worlds after all) but also different than what she's used to. This is a character that has a mutable concept of physical identity, basically.

One other thing is that I could try going down the succubus route. That would still be a challenge to write well in of itself because succubi just aren't really known for being anything other than malicious and manipulative, but at least that's a creature that exists. If I could still get away with the Ito/body horror aspects then all the better, but it's not strictly necessary.

I dunno if I actually answered your question, still kind of throwing out unprocessed thoughts at this point!

Parth Makeo · **05-25-2017, 03:41 PM**

(05-20-2017, 06:29 PM)Siliconparody Wrote: Obviously right off the bad, this isn't a 100% lore-friendly character one bit, so if you like characters that are lore-abiding, stay away! D:

I like to be more liberal with lore, but I also want to try making a character whose identity as a character isn't merely "look at meeeee I'm Void person!". Inspiration for this character comes from the anime/manga Parasyte, where she's a creature who owes her existence to leeching off of something else, and tries to find purpose in a world that is inherently hostile to her by its very nature.

Name: Moth Yorha
Occupation: Infiltrator/Investigator
Gender: Female
Race: Void Parasite ('Called Krasue')
Alignment: Neutral Evil (but see below)
Age: 90
Physical Description: Moth's current host body is that of a female Xaela with red skin and long, black hair. Her 'true' form isn't something I've figured out yet, but it's probably going to be something based off of the mythological penanggalan or krasue.

Bio: Within the Void lives a race of creatures called the Krasue. They are not high on the hierarchy within the Voidsent, considered little more than vermin. Despite this, or because of this, they worship the Void itself as a sort of mindless ur-being, and believe that, if all of existence become one with the Entrails of Creation (as they call the Void), then they, the chosen, will ascend to divinity in the new existence. This religious belief is organized around a 'church' called the Null Tapestry.

The Krasue named Moth saw things a little differently. She did not love the Light---it was, after all, antithetical to her entire existence, down to her aetheric dust components---but she believed that her kind would not ascend to divinity if all became Nothing. Everything would just become...nothing.

Branded a religious exile, Moth sought refuge in Hydaelyn when she realized she was able to take over the bodies of the people that lived there and hide amongst them. It was a gruesome process: it involved decapitating the victim, whereby Moth would then attach herself to the spot where the head was, taking over the body. This had to be done within seconds after the victim's head left the body, while the heart was still beating, since Moth cannot animate corpses. The host body is still very much alive...just minus their original head.

Having escaped religious persecution, Moth is very unsure on how to proceed in this world. She must operate within a world bathed in Light, full of people with morals that she has only just begun to understand. If she was to have any concrete goal, it would be to find purpose to her existence.

Personality: Moth's morals are a bit hard to pinpoint, being a creature from the Void. For example, she does not see anything wrong with forcefully taking over people's bodies to preserve her existence, especially in so gruesome of a process. Her curiosity about the "Lightcrawler's realm" tends to let her be an idle observer to acts of cruelty and bloodshed.

However, Moth is not an inherently cruel individual. She does not suck up the aether from others like many voidsent, since her host body is more than enough to sustain her. On top of that, she has begun forming bonds of friendship with several "Lightcrawlers" that she would never idly stand by and watch if they came to harm. She understands emotions as concepts---you won't find her asking "what is this, 'love', you speak of"---but has trouble expressing that she feels them. For example, if someone tells a joke that you find really funny, you're probably going to laugh or smile as an unconscious action. If Moth found that joke funny, she would have to make a conscious effort to show that she did by laughing or smiling. It's not that she doesn't find the joke funny, merely that unconscious body language that other people take for granted is something she must consciously act on.

Having existed for only a mere 90 years, Moth is young by Voidsent standards. She is by no means stupid,Â but she does possess a naivety about the new world she lives in, about very basic assumptions that other people already have.
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Basically, Moth runs on this trope.

Some meta commentary: I don't want to turn her into a "chaotic good Drow that opposes her evil kind!" like Drizzt or anything. And she's not a particularly powerful Voidsent, much less so now that she's on Hydaleyn, so while I'm aware I'm taking a LOT of liberties with lore here, hopefully her not being some kind of hidden aether god or something offsets what I am confident is already a special snowflake of a character.

Any advice or feedback is appreciated. This is a WiP character; I've only recently began RP'ing with her, and I like organic character development, so nothing's set in stone.

Well...Where do I begin? First off: You said this character will not be lore friendly. Now as much as I want to say play what you want... if it's so non-lore friendly that it wouldn't even make sense in this universe, NO ONE will RP with you...and trust me I've played with lore breaking RPers before.

Next:
"Inspiration for this character comes from the anime/manga Parasyte, where she's a creature who owes her existence to leeching off of something else, and tries to find purpose in a world that is inherently hostile to her by its very nature."
I'm glad more people are finding out about this series but truthfully if someone was a parasite like that, you would bet that character would die the MOMENT a mage came in the picture. There's enough Magic BS out there that literally in lore PEOPLE ARE BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE. So even if it wasn't lore friendly....your character would be killed ASAP before anyone can even find out. Just being brutal with you.

Ok so next is-
"Moth sought refuge in Hydaelyn when she realized she was able to take over the bodies of the people that lived there and hide amongst them. It was a gruesome process: it involved decapitating the victim, whereby Moth would then attach herself to the spot where the head was, taking over the body. This had to be done within seconds after the victim's head left the body, while the heart was still beating, since Moth cannot animate corpses. The host body is still very much alive...just minus their original head."

Unless you are strictlyÂ doing this with NPC characters, no one will allow this and again referringÂ to the above, you would be KILLED ON SIGHT even in non Lore friendly ways. No one will take a risk of such a horrible creature in a saneÂ sense.

The rest i don't need to comment on. If you wanted to make this character for a Roleplay session, you might as well just make your own universe instead of using the Final Fantasy brand. The one thing most people sometimes forget is the fun of Roleplaying in an established world is living and going by majority of the rules. I'm sure there may be 1-3 other people interested in this idea somewhere but....

Right now, as harsh as this will sound...

You will not get decent Role Playing with this character. Infact, I wouldn't be shocked if you suddenly tried to meta game out of your character dying. Like all possible scenariosÂ I can think of for this character end in a BAD END and short lived RP event. It's better left in the refuse bin or taken to an Original RP world.Â

Look, I'm sorry. *Sips coffee* I didn't mean to be that harsh...I justÂ don't want someone playing a type of character they know is lore breaking and wants to Roleplay with others yet most likely despite whatever their emotion is, they will surely meet with tier maker faster than Firefly ended.

WITH THAT SAID!

You should instead remove the Voidsent thing and go with the idea of a meteor fragment carrying your pal. That way you DON'T need the void or Aether drinking and cut a significant chunk of what is mostly fictional. Call her an unknown entity as well and give mystery to it. Perhaps she even came from another 'realm' :O

Get creative with the idea of a 'parasite' not a 'Voidsent' if you get what i mean... OR HELL MAKE HER AN ALLAG EXPERIMENT GONE WRONG! >:3

Siliconparody · **05-25-2017, 11:58 PM**

Quote:Look, I'm sorry. *Sips coffee* I didn't mean to be that harsh...I justÂ don't want someone playing a type of character they know is lore breaking and wants to Roleplay with others yet most likely despite whatever their emotion is, they will surely meet with tier maker faster than Firefly ended.

As I've said above, I appreciate honest feedback. Y'all have been mighty helpful, believe me!

Quote:You should instead remove the Voidsent thing and go with the idea of a meteor fragment carrying your pal. That way you DON'T need the void or Aether drinking and cut a significant chunk of what is mostly fictional. Call her an unknown entity as well and give mystery to it. Perhaps she even came from another 'realm' :O

Get creative with the idea of a 'parasite' not a 'Voidsent' if you get what i mean... OR HELL MAKE HER AN ALLAG EXPERIMENT GONE WRONG! >:3

I was actually considering doing this at first, making her a non-Void entity, but I actually figured that would be more lore breaking if she's from another realm. That said, the Allag experiment idea sounds mighty interesting, too...

Here I was thinking that if she was from the Void it would still be a character that would be possible to exist since the Void is an established "place" in the setting. But now I'm really digging the Allagan experiment idea.

So you think going with a non-Voidsent origin and more Allagan creation would be at least slightly more believable, then? I'd need to restructure her backstory a little but Hells, that would be worth it if I can make it well written.

Impstatus · **05-26-2017, 03:36 AM**

(05-20-2017, 07:31 PM)undefined Wrote:
(05-20-2017, 07:31 PM)Kerrath Wrote: i'm gonna level with you dude, your idea is a far departure from what's familiar in final fantasy.
Different opinion time! This snippet caught my eye for few reasons, but core of it boils down to how I view FFXIV: like an ultimate FF theme park! Wherever I turn, there is cool references and eastereggs calling back to classics and this side, to me, makes Hydaelyn as roleplaying environment too, more fun, more inviting. Is my view of Hydaelyn of serious, factual accuracy above everything else valuing flavour? No and yes. I have caught the spirit of playfulness developers of this game have towards whole FF franchise, and in many ways this spirit makes me more concerned of having fun time and coming up with fun stories, and if it takes a little bending of rules and lore, that's fine by me.
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To my point: if we view the concept "incorporeal/extradimensional being possessing/manipulating/impersonating as someone or something else" purely as trope, I do not think it sound alien to FF at all!! Cagnazzo as king of Baro, just Zemus, Garland made Zidane act weird at Pandemonium, Shuyin's will affected pyreflies at Den of Woe and Ultimecia possessing and manipulatig other Sorceresses throuh time. Just examples, without going too much into technicalities, it's same trope taking different forms. I think these and so many other even better examples at least demonstrate my point. Even in XIV, beside mentioned succubuss cases, the aether oil quest miqo'te lady was possessed by spirit (was it late Allagan citizen?), later half of Dark Knight has us searching high and low more about the spirit of dragon inside Rielle and thaumaturge questline has that loser Coco brother pretty obviously possessed by some kind of malevolent spirit.

So, personally would not bat an eye at next case of foreign spirits or other incorporeal things inside someone at FFXIV, maybe even possessing them!!

Onwards. Let's, for sake of argument, examine those fair warnings that most likely good number of roleplayers, with more mundane and lore abiding characters, might not be interested in writing with op's character. But who would? "Demonhunter" type of characters come in mind, and "dark mystic" types, but pool for those is smaller, op just needs to find someone relaxed enough with lore. In sense, I do not see difference here, good roleplay comes with good match of right players, and if op is at Balmung, which takes pride in it's diverse communiy, I do not think there is much to worry about.

Then criticism time. Which is bit weird, since I admit being the kind of hack who actively browses literature, history and music for inspiration. I'm not familiar with Parasyte, but I guess the title alone gives away enough about that manga. Whether player is concerned with lore or not, anyone had hard time taking ninja named Naruto seriously, if you catch my drift. Possessions are not unheard of, as this thread has confirmed, but going into such detail kind of is. Again, I can only speak for myself, but if I were introduced to character, who is... let's say ahriman possessing roygadyn to have more practical, less...well, voidal vessel to interact with mortals of Hydaelyn to feed off the viciousness of Eorzea's rotten underbelly, I actually could not have problem with accepting that combination of ideas. Unorthodox? Maybe, but not too foreign, which I think is the key here. Parts which make up your character I think are best introduced in order from simplest to more complex and unbelievable, to kinda trap people on path that makes them accept the fantasy you have created. Herein lies the reason why I find so many super detailer character profiles dull, becase they lack any subtlety to hold my interest, even worse if good chunk of that profile is information I would be absolutely hyped about if I found those things out while roleplaying and being in that completely different state of mind.

As op's character is just feels bit disjointed and dare I say "edgedark"... not even because of that posession by decapitation, but because in the void, in realm of nothingness Â teeming with predatorial demons, there apparently in little enclave of proto-civillized beings like krasue who care enouh to send one of their own to religious exile. Even in group of lesser yet special demons, there is one even more special. And dammit, I want to emphasise that if I was writing that sort of "demonhunter" character stuck in company and of op's character, and then in this hypothetical rp there would be this character building moment where my character would learn about op's characters actually very sad history? I would eat it all, no breaks in suspension of disbelief here.

This is already too long post, I've lost this text like 3 times for being mad enough to write this on my ancient tablet. Need to do something aboug my tendency to go on with rambling. Two advices I can give you. Continue working with this character, phase out obvious references to manga without deleting them (it is not cool to have glaringly odd reference, but it is exiting to figure out that something actually is reference). That should make your character more acceptable to wider audience. Or find friend to plan and plot with, to come up with this awesome custom rp experience just for you, the kind which is unlike to happen spontaneously. Good luck and sorry for some harsh rethoric here and there in this monster of reply.

EDIT Looks like I ended up quating myself? Fixing this on tablet will probably be more work than it's worth...

Parth Makeo · **05-27-2017, 07:53 PM**

(05-25-2017, 11:58 PM)Siliconparody Wrote: So you think going with a non-Voidsent origin and more Allagan creation would be at least slightly more believable, then?

Allag are like the super genius ancient race in the universe that can rival or be better than the Garlean empire...and they have dabbled in Cloning technology if you have done the Crystal Tower. They clearly have advanced means of technology, some of which being actual computers, test tubes, ect.

If anything, you can think of them like...Protoss from Starcraft except not that alien and just technology bound. Hell if you go into Binding Coils you will see a lot of Allag stuff from the moon. I'd talk more but some of it is MSQ spoiler territory.

Point is: Voidsent are not exactly demons and can be hard to play right but Allag are kind of like super scientists. Azys Lla is drenched with the architecture and remains of Allag technology. So a Parasite made on accident or failed experiment is going to be [AT LEAST IN THIS CASE OF LORE BREAKING] more believable.

Siliconparody · **05-27-2017, 08:26 PM**

(05-27-2017, 07:53 PM)Parth Makeo Wrote:
(05-25-2017, 11:58 PM)Siliconparody Wrote: So you think going with a non-Voidsent origin and more Allagan creation would be at least slightly more believable, then?
Allag are like the super genius ancient race in the universe that can rival or be better than the Garlean empire...and they have dabbled in Cloning technology if you have done the Crystal Tower. They clearly have advanced means of technology, some of which being actual computers, test tubes, ect.

If anything, you can think of them like...Protoss from Starcraft except not that alien and just technology bound. Hell if you go into Binding Coils you will see a lot of Allag stuff from the moon. I'd talk more but some of it is MSQ spoiler territory.

Point is: Voidsent are not exactly demons and can be hard to play right but Allag are kind of like super scientists. Azys Lla is drenched with the architecture and remains of Allag technology. So a Parasite made on accident or failed experiment is going to be [AT LEAST IN THIS CASE OF LORE BREAKING] more believable.

I think I'm going to go with that kind of origin, then. This character could have been an ancient Allagan (or a clone of one, since I don't want this character to have any special insight into the Allagan Empire, no more than anyone else in modern day Eorzea) that was used as a base framework to create something far more horrifying. This would mean that the character isn't exactly an entirely new race if they started off as a Hyur (which is what I'm assuming the Allagans were) so they don't have an entirely alien mindset on things. Further, perhaps she was stored away in Azys Lla in stasis, and was only recently released into the world after Azys Lla was unlocked after taking over some hapless explorer?

That would all mean that while this character is hardly stupid and understands basic social etiquette, they do possess a certain naivety and ignorance about the world, which would be a driving motivation for her.

I think this can be a little more easier to work with! I'm aware of the fact that this is still an "out there" character concept and is one that would be a no go to RP with for some people, but hopefully making her not a Voidsent, and have at least her origin be based in one of the playable races, would round things out a little better.

Also, another thing to add, on me trying to meta game her out of dying: I never anticipated she'd be an exceptionally hard character to kill off. She still registers pain as much as anyone else, since she's fully integrated with her host body, and any injuries to the head is direct injury to herself. So head explosions would be instantly fatal for her! I mentioned Parasyte as an inspiration for character archetypes, but not the biology of the creatures themselves, since she possesses no regenerative abilities. A more apt comparison might be a certain blonde, time-stopping vampire from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, in how he acquires a new body. But, y'know, no time stopping powers. If her head's removed from the body then great, she can try finding a new one. But that's still gonna hurt big time; it's not something she'd be able to just shrug off.

I'm still going to try refining and work with this character as Impstatus suggested. I'm also probably going to spell out what she really is in her Search Info so there's no surprises about what she is and people know what they're dealing with up front OOC. Perhaps instead of loudly declaring "this isn't a lore friendly character!" like I'm loud and proud about it, try to make it work where she can believably exist in the established setting.

RP'ing a Void Body Snatcher

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