(06-07-2015, 04:53 PM)Kage Wrote: Wasn't the person who said Fantasia was really just a character bringing out their true form, Koji-Fox?
It was: http://gamerescape.com/2014/10/25/final-...ondon-qas/
To be honest, I'm not a big fan of the whole "boom, I changed race/gender 'cause I felt like it" thing. People can certainly play what they want, but random major character changes like that bother me as they force people you RP with to adapt to the fact that you're a person in a completely different body without any narrative reason for doing so. I've never had a problem with people doing that as part of a larger plot where it does serve a story and where there's IC actions and IC consequences. I don't think anyone has an issue with using fantasia in a purely OOC way to make small adjustments to a character's appearance, then retconning that into continuity.
I would just say, though, that commonality of story does not equal commonality of existence, so to say that "because many people RP this, it must be super-common, and the implication of that is that it breaks the world" is a little disingenuous, I think. A thing can appear in RP and be portrayed as rare. Even if lots of people do it, it's still rare in their continuities and it's still rare in the aggregate of Eorzean experience, since PC adventurers are a tiny percentage of the world's population. That certainly doesn't mean that an FC isn't well within its rights to say, "As we view lore, this cannot exist, so if you want to join, you can't have that in your story."
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