(07-06-2015, 09:26 PM)Warren Castille Wrote: It's possible to be confident without being close-minded. Everyone's overlooking the meta, I think, that also exists in a pretty secure grey bubble: If someone claims to be a white mage, not everyone ICly is going to have the knowledge of what that job entails. I don't imagine very many folks can stand up and shout THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE, YOU CAN'T BE ONE BECAUSE THE ELEMENTALS FORBID IT! Does anyone casually know the inner workings of Padjal society? What they really are? What they can do?
If someone says they're a White Mage and they're out of place (read: not protecting the Shroud) it's reasonable to express doubt. If they then show they can channel succor, it's also reasonable to express surprise. Something I've always said is that the average person isn't going to know what succor feels like anyway: If we buy into the "your aether is personal and different depending on the user" fluff then no two healers would "feel" the same anyway.
I'm rambling a bit because sleepy Warren is sleepy, but it comes down to plausibility. Running around Limsa Holy-bombing things is much less believable than, say, a healer going on a pilgrimage to study the extent of the Calamity. Write what you want, but try to be respectful. If it flows, people will respond positively to it.
Gotta agree with this post here. If you were to come to my characters claiming to be a White Magie without being a special forest snowflake creature they'd go 'haha what are you tugging my chain' but then if you actually showed some level of advanced healing magic that, reasonably, only a proper White Mage could do they'd go 'oh shit what, how' rather than me going right to WHAT NO FUCK THIS I OUT.
Now if you then went on to say you're actually an elemental in human form who has lived since the first Astral age somehow who's personally killed every Primal, yea that's when I go 'uh, bye' but if your answer is 'yea dude I went on a really intense spirit quest and it took so much study and training and risk for myself but eventually I was able to tap into that shit with guidance', yea cool, we can work something out there.
People deserve a chance, they don't need unconditional agreement, but they deserve at least a chance to put their stuff out there and let you decide from there. A White Mage in character would need a pretty big story why that happened, but inherently I wouldn't write them off.
