(05-08-2015, 03:38 AM)Verilys Wrote:(05-08-2015, 03:05 AM)ArmachiA Wrote: Which is done 95% of the time, except in the case of White Mage specifically.
Because there are many many people who believe the lore does. not. budge on it and they are perfectly within their right to believe that. You're telling people who are open to a Miqote Dragoon or a Black Mage (Which is VERY difficult in lore to pull off) because of those grey areas, that they also have to be open to White Mage when they believe the lore very explicitly says that PC's cannot be one. There is no grey area.
White Mage lore is the EXCEPTION, it isn't the rule and White Mage players need to recognize it's a VERY polarizing issue (As we have seen).
As a new player, I've found the discussion on the White Mage stuff very interesting, but I've been having difficulty finding explicit statements that'd conclude against players playing as one. I don't want to beat on the topic further either -- would someone be able to message me and point me towards the resources?
The truth is the lore is not against the player playing as a white mage. There is a quest for it. Just as there are quests that say you are the WoL and other stuff. The majority of the RP community however decided to disregard that.
As a MSQ RPer I say that the community's decision is FINE and legit, but nobody should use "lore" as a shield, because the very first break in the lore is to decide to not acknowledge that you are from outside of Eorzea, one of the Warriors of Light, and a White Mage. The lore is what the game provides, not what the RP community decides. So please, let us stop using lore as a weapon for jobs, because it is utterly wrong. I am not breaking the lore by playing X job, I am breaking your personal approach at it, your own version of the lore, which is way different from the game's. I am doing something you, and perhaps the majority of the community, don't like, not something the game doesn't allow.
To give my final word in this thread, my RP group has three (or four? I forget) IC white mages as of now and several dragoons and other things (we just don't really make a big deal of it, as how someone fights in a group of fighters is not that much relevant). If you ever want to RP as a job and are looking for like-minded people, look us up. You don't have to RP the MSQ with us if you don't want to, we're very open to just do social RP as well (and we won't make mention of MSQ during it).
*Raises the shield of peace, forecasting flames and hellfire*
To be an interesting, intriguing, well-written character, there needs to be something to allow the audience to relate to them. That is what the problem is with who wants their character to be "perfect". Perfect characters will never be strong, and strong characters will never be perfect, because WE (those who read, who watch, who RP) are not perfect.
"What makes a strong character is how they deal with their flaws, their fears, their turmoils, their troubles that get in the way. That's what makes them relatable." -- N.C.
"What makes a strong character is how they deal with their flaws, their fears, their turmoils, their troubles that get in the way. That's what makes them relatable." -- N.C.
