(07-02-2013, 03:29 PM)Garryson Wrote: So all-in-all, I just hope there is more OOC communication than sometimes I've experienced in the past. I hope to play with a lot of you, so I'll say it now: If I ever disrespect you or hamper your fun, tell me! We're all on the same team.
In the years I've been playing with the community, there's always been a very strong level of OOC communication and a willingness to discuss potential triggers before and after any given interactions. To use an obvious example, Eva and Rhio have been at odds more than once, but Eva and Rhio's players have always been on good terms. (At least to the best of my knowledge.) When something potentially straining has come up, it's been discussed and sorted quickly and without undue drama or hand-wringing.
If you want a happy ending, that's completely valid and no one is going to fault you for it. There's nothing wrong with just going out and having adventures, nor does it make you more or less mature than someone whose character is being put through the wringer. Nor does it mean that someone assumes your end goal is for things to wrap up nicely on a laugh with everyone being friends again. But there are lots of different sorts of happy endings.
Oddly, this lines up nicely with the Final Fantasy series as a whole. Every single game is all about a group of people off to take part in an adventure, but each game also differs in its scope and the impact of those adventures - and the happy ending the characters receive. In Final Fantasy IX, everyone's alive and whole by the end of the game, and for all the pain that happened there's a sense that what was lost can be recovered. In Final Fantasy X, several main characters are dead, and the entire point of the story is coping with the loss of these people and honoring that sacrifice.
Everyone's entitled to their preferences, and it doesn't make one style better than the other. I know what I tend to like, as evidenced by Rhio's history and the people I tend to play with, but that's not the only way to play. Work toward the happy ending you want to have.
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