(06-06-2015, 06:19 PM)Kellach Woods Wrote:(06-06-2015, 06:06 PM)Unnamed Mercenary Wrote: Realistically, even if people suddenly stopped calling it fantasia, they'd just find some other way of using a fantasia in an IC fashion, whether it was as simple as plastic surgery, a sex change operation, or some wacky aether hijinks that somehow morphed a person entirely. The realism faction is not particularly high with this concept. It is stated in the game that people can effectively break down their bodies into aether, which is how teleportation works. Why then, could a person somehow not "accidentally" or perhaps purposely, teleport and come out different? Wouldn't it only need some advanced aetherial manipulation then? For a serious or plot-driven storyline, such things are just as plausible and possible.
We have sprites, animals and voidsent that can literally glamour themselves into beings of an entirely different shape.
I can understand not wanting to accept fantasia at face value but come the fuck on.
I'm not a fan of devs introducing in-game items, with flavor descriptions, and then going out of their way to say "this item isn't real". Would have preferred that they used the Mog Station entirely to switch that but I suspect they never thought of that.
They probably never considered a mogstation-based approach. ...but I mean, fantasia likely just recycled the 1.0->2.0 code to edit appearance.
But there is a difference between a fantasia and a glamour. A very big one.
Glamours are purely visual. They might as well be holograms. A tank that's glamoured themselves with emperor's wear will still make clanking sounds with their armor. (Although this is not rendered in game, which is a pity.) A glamour does not alter physical properties. I could glamour a slug to look like a kitten. You try to pet that "kitten" and you'll be feeling a slimy slug still.
A fantasia -does- modify the body. It doesn't make much sense in an IC facility, but that's what we get for meta-items for happy players. It's not less insane than say....getting primal weapons. Average person A would never be able to do that!
