I'm still debating on how I want to relate Summoner IC.
While Ifrit is taken down with common frequency, it didn't strike me that Titan was taken down all that often, and Garuda is definitely not a common summoning, given all the stuff the Ixal had to do first.
I've considered the idea of someone with a strong Echo and connection to the elementals of the Twelveswood being able to summon elementals, and have them not be Egi...but that's not exactly along the lines of canon. In Kyma's case, his strongest IC elemental affinity is Water, followed by Wind, so I'd want to be able to use the Garuda-Egi IC somehow. I just don't see much of any other way to make it work, sort of claiming he fought Garuda; he's pretty young, so fighting the summoning prior to the current story one might not be viable either.
Aside from that, I agree that if elements are selected and used tastefully, in a manner that makes things inclusive for other RPers and does not block them from using that lore in their story as well.
Sometimes, doing an "exact opposite" from the storyline is fun too. Claire is going to have tried to join the Scions, but be utterly rejected from their ranks due to how focused on revenge she is; she discovers who they are, they learn who she is, and Thancred (since she met him a few times in 1.0 story) will tell her she can come back when she starts fighting for the "right reasons" - and she never does start fighting for the "right reasons", as she believes her reason is right already.
While Ifrit is taken down with common frequency, it didn't strike me that Titan was taken down all that often, and Garuda is definitely not a common summoning, given all the stuff the Ixal had to do first.
I've considered the idea of someone with a strong Echo and connection to the elementals of the Twelveswood being able to summon elementals, and have them not be Egi...but that's not exactly along the lines of canon. In Kyma's case, his strongest IC elemental affinity is Water, followed by Wind, so I'd want to be able to use the Garuda-Egi IC somehow. I just don't see much of any other way to make it work, sort of claiming he fought Garuda; he's pretty young, so fighting the summoning prior to the current story one might not be viable either.
Aside from that, I agree that if elements are selected and used tastefully, in a manner that makes things inclusive for other RPers and does not block them from using that lore in their story as well.
Sometimes, doing an "exact opposite" from the storyline is fun too. Claire is going to have tried to join the Scions, but be utterly rejected from their ranks due to how focused on revenge she is; she discovers who they are, they learn who she is, and Thancred (since she met him a few times in 1.0 story) will tell her she can come back when she starts fighting for the "right reasons" - and she never does start fighting for the "right reasons", as she believes her reason is right already.
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