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(07-11-2015, 04:26 AM)Warren Castille Wrote:(07-11-2015, 04:22 AM)Glioca Sargonnai Wrote: I think there's a large difference in someone from a similar world (XI and XIV) and someone from a world so drastically different (Earth, or whatever the GoT world is called, I don't watch it).Â
I never played XI personally, so I can't attest to how similar they are, but the races are in some aspects similar and yet different.
As someone who did play XI, a lot, I can go on record as saying Vana'diel has as much in common with Eorzea as <insert whatever fantasy world you want right here>.
Aside from the races looking sort of similar, there's nothing at all that repeats from XI to XIV. That's why I was pointing out that XI is as admissible as Marvel and WWE and DC and Whatever are.
Someone from XI might have seen a Chocobo, but someone from Middle Earth might be more familiar with giant chickens too. It doesn't work too great when you get down to it.
But it does work, that's the point. In this case, it does work, and there's a period of adjustment, and it's the character himself who has the largest adjustment to do, not everyone around him. Looking at it from a purely character perspective, he's the one who has to get used to the fact he's not in the same world. Hell, maybe that character wants to find a way home some day.Â
Now that's an RP plot for you. Getting dozens of people involved to try and create a ritual fused with Allag technology to try and open up a dimensional rift to blindly send someone home across dimensions.Â
There are literally dozens of ways this RP could go, and multiple ways that character could positively influence the plots and stories that stem from his existence. But no one wants to take those things into account. They just want to slap the same stigma onto his traveling character as someone who tried to play Jon Snow, to take from an earlier example.
The thing about allowances is they're made for a reason. If someone wants to make a character who is to their core from Eorzea, awesome. I have six other characters that are from Eorzea, who I RP when I can and when I'm in that mood. Hell, talking to Glioca ICly most would never know she wasn't from Eorzea unless I specifically stated 'This character is a world traveler'. But I still deal with that same stigma from people who look at the concept and go 'Meh, it's not normal, I don't want to deal with it.'
We're a community of creators and writers. Things like plot twists and unique hooks should be nothing for us to deal with on a conceptual level. Why do we levy so hard against something that's not out of the batch of round cookies, when someone tries to make a cookie that's slightly square?
[sub]Don't ask how I got square cookies, they spread out too much and I ended up with a flat sheet that I had to cut into squares. Shut up, my oven sucks. ._.[/sub]
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