(03-11-2015, 01:33 PM)BlackmoreKnight Wrote: Convention generally is that you don't need to play your 2.0 character as a 'stranger' to Eorzea. You could have been a GC soldier at the time if you're not playing a warrior of light (And there are other threads throughout the forums that speak to WoLs and their role in things/RP). You'd just have retreated after the order was given by the city-state leaders when everything was going to hell.Â
Fifteen is a 'bit' young to be a professional soldier, though. I assume Eorzea has standard ages of majority. That said, not like there are medieval birth certificates or something. It could be an interesting story beat. Your character wanting to fight the Garleans bad enough to lie about her age, and the GC being too hard-pressed for bodies to look too deep into it.
A lot of people lied about their age to go and fight in WW1 and WW2. In many ways that's part of what made the entire thing so horrific - many young men were running off to get killed and some of them were generally just kids.
It wouldn't surprise me if that sort of thing happened at Carteneu. The chances of a young character surviving would be pretty slim though and it'd likely leave them with a pretty major case of PTSD.
War isn't pretty. Hollywood makes it seem really heroic and great but even when doing against a hated enemy it isn't something to aspire to. Every moment taxes one's sanity and ability to fit back into civilian life. It's something that sticks with you for the rest of your life - the memories very rarely go away.
It'd be pretty interesting to see someone bold enough to go down that route and play a young character who, thinking they'd come back as a hero, signs up to fight against the enemy only to be left a husk of their former self after barely surviving.
