Fantasia Canonicity

[Anonymoose]

I'm going to hazard a guess that what's going on here is that everyone who reads the one statement we got on it reads it differently.

Fantasia works in a unique way. I can’t simply turn you into whoever you want, or people could get away with anything. Crime would be out of control. Even on Earth, people have the opportunity to change who they are – cut their hair, get a facelift, find a new career or a different spouse – but we often aren’t willing to make those drastic life changes. Fantasia gives you the courage to make the changes you’ve always wanted to make. Maybe you are Lalafell trapped in a Roegadyn’s body, it’s time to break out! And all you needed was that courage in a phial!

You can read that from "It doesn't really change you." to "It makes the power of confidence so strong it does change you." to "This is a game mechanic to make money and retain subscriptions, please don't ask me about this."

I'm inclined to believe the latter at this time, because not one single NPC in the entire game has ever mentioned Fantasia one time. If it's not acknowledged by any character of the game, is it "in the game" yet? A question for wise men with skinny arms. However it behooves the RP community to come up with workable in-group fanon for their circles to have a rule of thumb for addressing it, because people are using it. Every group has different "rules" for it.

[MrFluffyWolf]

I'm going to hazard a guess that what's going on here is that everyone who reads the one statement we got on it reads it differently.



You can read that from "It doesn't really change you." to "It makes the power of confidence so strong it does change you." to "This is a game mechanic to make money and retain subscriptions, please don't ask me about this."

I'm inclined to believe the latter at this time, because not one single NPC in the entire game has ever mentioned Fantasia one time. If it's not acknowledged by any character of the game, is it "in the game" yet? A question for wise men with skinny arms. However it behooves the RP community to come up with workable in-group fanon for their circles to have a rule of thumb for addressing it, because people are using it. Every group has different "rules" for it.

Ah missed your post.
But yeah it really does come off as you said, "pls don't ask me this it's just so players can play around with looks, I know it doesn't make sense."
It really does kind of point to not being really "canon" if absolutely no in-game characters or text even refer to the existence of the item.