also as a sidebar to my previous post, quite a few of us wanted to try out FFXIV, but I was (and still am) REALLY invested in having my white-haired bunnyboy and was not happy with the idea of changing to a collective character. (customization-wise - we don't mind sharing game progress.) nor were they happy with the idea of settling for a collective character. but at the same time, alts in FFXIV suck to keep up with.
the answer we settled on was "use the Glamourer plugin to reskin my bunnyboy into their characters whenever they want to play (except for Bast, who desires the independent progression experience for some reason)"
(yeah, yeah, plugins break ToS. whatever. it's a victimless crime. Yoshi-P ain't my dad)
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