Honestly, I feel like there are (and should be) two brands of our characters. The public, community wide brand has to play a safe, politically correct, and ultimately somewhat bland version of themselves that mostly focuses on socializing.
Lets say your character is a high ranking official of the maelstrom. You go to the bismarck to get a drink, strike up a conversation with a stranger, only to find they are a high ranking official of the maelstrom too.
Only your stories don't match. Nor do your interpretations of what the maelstrom is, and what they do. To accept each others versions requires significant retconning or rewriting of your own tale, which many people are unwilling to do.
Or lets say the other player was a fierce pirate known across all of Limsa. Only, you've worked for the maelstrom for years and have never heard of him...
The point is, what is accepted within your inner rp circle won't necessarily be accepted by the community as a whole, where contradictory stories abound. We exist in multiple universes and multiple versions of Eorzea, so when we engage in the wider community, there are certain defining characteristics that have to be abandoned.
Because everyone has a different interpretation of what is allowed, what is lore friendly, and what puts you in that 'special snowflake' catergory.
Lets say your character is a high ranking official of the maelstrom. You go to the bismarck to get a drink, strike up a conversation with a stranger, only to find they are a high ranking official of the maelstrom too.
Only your stories don't match. Nor do your interpretations of what the maelstrom is, and what they do. To accept each others versions requires significant retconning or rewriting of your own tale, which many people are unwilling to do.
Or lets say the other player was a fierce pirate known across all of Limsa. Only, you've worked for the maelstrom for years and have never heard of him...
The point is, what is accepted within your inner rp circle won't necessarily be accepted by the community as a whole, where contradictory stories abound. We exist in multiple universes and multiple versions of Eorzea, so when we engage in the wider community, there are certain defining characteristics that have to be abandoned.
Because everyone has a different interpretation of what is allowed, what is lore friendly, and what puts you in that 'special snowflake' catergory.
