(07-29-2015, 09:06 AM)Auralily Wrote: I'm not looking for an interesting hook for my character, or anything along those lines. Most of my characters don't go running through the street saying Guess where I'm from and who I am?! Her main focus won't be about her heritage, I just thought it a unique way to explain two different colored eyes.
If this is the reason for doing it, it's better to Not Do It. Â
Fancy eyeballs are common enough in FF 14, down to strange colours, heterochromia, heterochromia with strange colours, the works, without needing to throw another reason in it that you've never going to make use of or touch on.
In short don't include something in your back story you're never going to tap, you're just turning it into a trophy case kind of thing. Â
Explore other family things that don't require you to take a special lore stance (And having an Alagan Eye is pretty special. Â The Doip Miqo from the Crystal Tower is implied to be the -only- one with an active eye in this age that isn't a
Hammer's entire clan/family has red eyes and white hair. Â No reason that's mystical and it sure as hell isn't an Allagan Eye. Â It's just a family trait that has a habit of breeding true through the male side of the family. Sure, there's probably kiddy tales you tell children about how your clan founder got demon blood in his eyes, or washed his hair in an underworld river, or did something equally stupid, or amazing for it, but all of that is just mythos and what you'd expect from someone grew up tribal in the Spine. Mostly it's how he recognizes family, a lot of the time and how his 'people' back in the Spine recognize him as probably being directly blood related. Â
Maybe the eyeball thing is a family trait! Â That's low-key enough to be in the background and never touched on again. Â
Or make the eye a thing of consequence that helped motivate your char to do something. Â Maybe your char got blasted in the eye with some magitec thing they picked up in a ruin they were exploring and that ONE eye shifted colour. Â The device is scrap now, so maybe they'll never know why, but it inspired them to start being an archaeologist, stuff like that helps you weave a story.
Just saying "Oh and I'm Allagan Royalty (half)" is kind of boring if you're never going to come back to it with any gravitas that it deserves. Â It's also kind of pointless if you don't plan on doing something with i that also plays off your char's interests off and what it entails, ect ect.
TLDR; If you're not going to USE it, look for other options that will highlight your char, instead of using high end points of lore as throw-away reasoning. Â The char will be better for it!
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