(07-21-2015, 09:22 AM)Lilia Lia Wrote:(07-21-2015, 09:07 AM)Gegenji Wrote: It's just when Fantasia is being used solely as a cop-out that I would have issue - no reason for being the race in a permanent sense beyond "I drank a Fantasia." Even just putting in a bit about feeling out of place and some strange merchant gave you a vial that brought out "your true self" would help some.
In a funny way, I actually find it easier to deal with people whose IC Fantasia has an "oops" explanation than people who make it a major part of their story. When it boils down to it, no matter how much time and effort people put into their "How I IC Fantasia'd" story, the grand majority of people are really changing their race for OOC reasons, and adjusting their IC stories thereafter. "This new race looks neat, I want to Fantasia into one, but I need to find a way to make it work with my story..." At least this is the case with every IC Fantasia I've ever seen.
Is it any worse than the other way around, though? Someone suddenly retconning their entire history to say that they were always this race? Being glamoured the entire time and not knowing it, possibly even having false family and false memories of a past that is suddenly in-congruent with the "revelation"? These sorts of explanations have the same potential to be just as immersion-breaking as a "How I IC Fantasia'd" story. Which is why I put emphasis on the overall presentation and how it is worked - I'm sure both could be done fabulously well just as much as they can be done terribly - so I try to take them on a case-by-case basis and seek to avoid any sweeping generalizations if I can manage it.
I suppose the issue is and always will be that this is ultimately an OOC cosmetic item that folks seek to use and explain in RP. It just became a hot topic of discussion lately due to the advent of an entirely new race. And, due to the overall alt-unfriendliness of the game, people sought easier ways to explain why their character was suddenly scaly. New jobs are easier to explain and work around from an RP standpoint. An entirely new race? Not so much.
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