Can retainers be deployed in our house?

[SokiYagami]

That's why I suggested the ability to edit the already existing interior NPCs instead. Don't really need the retainers themselves inside if they aren't serving their functions. In my opinion, it would be better for them to give you the option to fully customize the interior NPCs instead of creating a whole new furniture slot that check marks the retainers as interior instead of exterior . Personally, I would much rather be able to edit my mender and have them still function as a mender then place a retainer inside that still functions like my yard retainer. Especially if it consumes one of the already very limited NPC slots. Then I would be sacrificing an NPC I could use in exchange for one that just looks prettier. SE should either build upon what the retainers are able to do or just simply allow us to re-edit and design the various NPCs ourselves; as if they were our retainers but still allow them to function as Material Suppliers, Menders, Materia Melders, ect.

I wouldn't mind that. Personally I don't really require any functions from the retainer (for housing purpose) besides the ability to change pose.

The reason you can't do this is because you can have a summoning bell in your house. So if you had your retainer deployed in your house then used your summoning bell to call them, it would lead to a paradoxical situation where your retainer meets their doppelganger and leads to the next calamity shutting down the servers.

They could code it so if your retainer is deployed you can't summon them from the bell but that's a lot of extra coding for no real reason.

I mean if your plot is near to a summoning bell, you can still summon them while your retainer is just standing a couple feet away.