Would you take an anime-esque character seriously?

[Kage]

Clearly, what you do is make Hydaelyn UAW #XXX (Unadministrated world) and have Fate working with the TSAB on the planet somehow. *puts on yuri goggles* Fate is after a Jewel Seed (perhaps those pretty soul stones) but comes into trouble when facing the Beast Tribes and Garleans. Thus her partner in raising Vivio comes down with a Starlight Breaker trying to get them to listen to her while the Warriors of Light then come to help and eventually join the TSAB.

 

I can see this happening with a group of RPers dedicated to it but not with people who are RPing generally. It's like if Fate met with random UAW citizen. What? How would they react? Probably think crazy. I mean... space.

[Lyriell]

Clearly, what you do is make Hydaelyn UAW #XXX (Unadministrated world) and have Fate working with the TSAB on the planet somehow. *puts on yuri goggles* Fate is after a Jewel Seed (perhaps those pretty soul stones) but comes into trouble when facing the Beast Tribes and Garleans. Thus her partner in raising Vivio comes down with a Starlight Breaker trying to get them to listen to her while the Warriors of Light then come to help and eventually join the TSAB.

 

I can see this happening with a group of RPers dedicated to it but not with people who are RPing generally. It's like if Fate met with random UAW citizen. What? How would they react? Probably think crazy. I mean... space.

 

lol ^^ no seriously I don't want to play her as the Canon version. However I wouldn't mind someone making a spin off version of Nanoha too

 

I need my waifu! ;-;

[Yaaris]

I believe that if you use a character from anything as inspiration it's fine. As long as you aren't straight up plagiarizing, I highly doubt anyone would notice unless you specifically pointed it out somehow.

 

Actually, I'll bet if you used the magical girl thing on your original character, some people would find it endearing.

 

I don't really believe there's an "anime" character taboo. I'd take you just as seriously if you rp'd Motoko Kusanagi as if you rp'd Eddard Stark. Which is to say, not seriously at all.

[FreelanceWizard]

Actually, I'll bet if you used the magical girl thing on your original character, some people would find it endearing.

 

Absolutely! That concept is perfectly fine, IMO. This is Final Fantasy, after all, where the characters tend to be young, idealistic, and powerful.

 

Really, everyone takes inspiration from various places. We have a whole thread in Character Development where people talk about what inspired their characters. Where MMO (and pen and paper, for that matter) RPers tend to take exception is when it's not inspiration, but appropriation. It's a cultural difference, surely, but one to be aware of as it can definitely impact one's RP.

[C'kayah Polaali]

I took a long time to answer this thread because the issue for me is a bit complicated. Personally, I tend to fall into the "Good RP masks a variety of sins - if it's entertaining, I'll overlook quite a bit" camp. At the same time, I definitely come from the tabletop RP population, and tend to make my characters from scratch even from game to game (I've never really gotten the "X is my character, I play them in every game that I play" thing).

 

Speaking personally, while I'm typically happy to RP with anyone and everyone, I'd be a little hesitant to do any sort of deep RP with a character like this. Not because they're a magical girl or anime-inspired or anything like that. Instead, it's simply because they're a FF version of an existing character out of someone else's canon. Canon character RP is fantastic (one of my daughters does it, and she really finds it rewarding), but it is different from deep character RP because there are very hard limits to how a character can change that you reach very quickly. For me, the whole point of deep character RP is that your character changes because of their interactions with others. A canon character can't really do that because they'd no longer be a canon character.

 

That said, there are quite a few people in this thread that have given you warnings that you won't get as much RP if you do X or Y. I'd say screw 'em. Play the character the way you want. If you're a good RPer, you'll find people to RP with, regardless. And if you decide it's not working out for you, then you can do a name-change and play a different character concept.

[Kage]

Keep in mind that though it is -easier- to RP with an already in-game name you do not have to RP with that name.

 

People have asked about the fact that their character has nunh etc as their character name and sometimes Nunh tend to get a bad rep (or not).

 

That name floating above your character? It does not -have- to be the name you use in RP. If people take that name they are -meta-gaming- and well you probably don't want to RP with them at all.

[ArmachiA]

Naturally, you can, of course, RP whatever you want.

 

That said, from my experience in MMO RP, most MMO RPers come from the tabletop and LARP worlds (or even the MU* world, where fanfic-like games were often less common than original universes or those derived from tabletop RPGs), where playing a canonical character is typically viewed extremely negatively. Even tabletop RPG players who play in licensed universes (Star Wars, Firefly/Serenity, Amber, etc.) generally don't play canonical characters, as part of the fun is creating your own character and placing them in that setting. Canonical characters are established as NPCs.

 

So, you can imagine that there's a significant clash between the fanfic RPers, who typically play canonical characters to avoid Mary Sues, authorial wish fulfillment, etc. and the tabletop/LARP RPers who find playing canonical characters to be abhorrent. My supposition is that those RPers who classify themselves as "heavier" RPers typically come out of the tabletop/LARP tradition, and that there are more players from that tradition in MMOs generally. Even if you reject those suppositions, though, while playing an original character in an MMO may grate on those from the fanfic community who are playing in an MMO, playing a canonical character in one will result in rejection from a significant proportion of the MMO RP community. Basically, it's a different culture and tradition of RP, with different norms.

 

In short: while you can do whatever you want, playing canonical characters (regardless of whether they jumped here via cross-universe portal or not) is likely to result in significant problems in your RP, so my advice is to not do it.

 

It's this. Two VERY different cultures, coming from very different places, believing the exact opposite things are abhorrent.

[Lyriell]

I like this picture: 

[Chillsmack]

I avoid weaboos like the plague, so no I would not take an actual anime character serious. If you have a Lalafell with a name that comes out of Naruto then I ignore you completely even if you are attempting walk-up RP. Hell, you could even be good at RP and I still won't want to RP with you for the same reason I'm not going to RP with anyone who's character is Drizzt Do'Urden: that being, I'm a lore-nazi. If you're going to RP in a world that someone created, I think you should respect that world and the setting which has, no doubt, taken a great deal of time and effort to create. If you want to ignore the setting completely and replace it with your own, then I question your point in RPing in the first place.

 

That said, as mentioned before, having slight anime-inspirations is fine since inspiration can come from anywhere. But if you henshin/transform, then no: welcome to the blocklist. While FF14 pokes fun and flirts with anime at bit (see: aesthetician questline and the special effects of abilities), I think any anime-esque elements of the game are simply a product of the fact that it was a Japanese game first, and, the western influences by comparison are far more substantial since the fantasy elements draw so much more inspiration from medieval periods all the way through the Renaissance (and even further still). With that in mind an anime character does not - in my opinion - fit the lore.

[allgivenover]

Do whatever you want, but I think it's in your best self-interest to come up with your own name and character concept.

 

You can change your name easily by creating a character on Balmung that has the exact same name as the one you are transferring over, you will be prompted to change the transferred character's name after moving. I highly recommend you take the opportunity to do so.