NPC themed characters. How true to their lore should players have them?

[Haruka_R]

I have yet to see that type of roleplay. If I ever do, my response will be the same as tbd's: roll my eyes, shake my head, and move on.

I was, however, slightly bothered to see that someone had actually change their name to Asem. I guess that person wanted to embrace that shit, I dunno.

[Ammokkx]

Most of the people who role-play as a canon character are pretty weird, I've found. Not to mention predatory - I've seen more than one version of a certain red haired cat boy and a certain silver haired elezen use their 'position' to pressure fans into sleazy role-play.

Not necessarily in-game but over Twitter and Tumblr.

While I never got involved with the 18+ community in RP, I have done a fair bit of RPing in my life, and never not once have I seen someone "pressure" their peers into RPing with a character's "status." It's more often than not just a desire to put that character in situations the writers never would, rather than any kind of predatory agenda.

Nah, the real predators are the ones who actively seek out people below 18 to RP with. Those types do exist and they don't need any kind of status to pull it off, just a little lying or obscuring of their IRL age.

As for the actual topic in the thread: I'm never going to diss RPers for RPing as long as they don't get in other people's way. It's just a form of escapism like another and MMO's have a really good foundation to RP on, although the chatroom nature of it leaves me, personally, to not want to engage. Them pretending to be canon characters of any kind is nothing new to me as I've experienced this phenomenon for years on other platforms, too.

...I wish I was more socially inclined or had different standards for RP so I could get myself an XIV boyfriend :c

[SugarPuff]

I'm mostly indifferent although seeing one of the many incarnations of Hildibrand usually makes me smile.

I don't rp and if I stumbled across an npc or two acting out of character it might grab my attention so that I paused long enough to get an idea what they were doing, but that's all.

[MistakeNot]

I am not going to think of those characters as the NPCs they look like anyway, so I don't care much about how they are played.

[TheMightyMollusk]

I've only really noticed a couple of Haurchefants, mostly standing around AFKing with everyone else. I just kinda shrug and move on with my day, if I bother to notice at all.

If they're going to RP an existing NPC, I'd prefer they stay close to the canon portrayal, because otherwise, why bother trying to be an existing character? But, I don't RP, so it's not really my concern.

[Ayuhra]

Japanese/French Haurchefant - who admires the WOL's chiselled body and wants them to come up to his bedroom to get warm?
American Haurchefant - who doth speakesth admirably about his hope incarnate's skill?

AS POSSIBLE I SAID.

Also Japanese/French/German Haurchefant for life.