Hydaelyn Role-Players

You know the cute little minion things who's only purpose is for Lords of Verminion?
Yeah those!

Do you actually use a minion in RP? If you do, what minion is it? What's the story?

Although I don't use a minion for Nanagi, I do have plans of her obtaining one. I recently obtained the Owlet minion, and I think it's the cutest thing and I want a reason to actually use it.

(12-16-2015, 04:01 PM)GhostlyMaiden Wrote: [ -> ]You know the cute little minion things who's only purpose is for Lords of Verminion?
Yeah those!

Do you actually use a minion in RP? If you do, what minion is it? What's the story?

Although I don't use a minion for Nanagi, I do have plans of her obtaining one. I recently obtained the Owlet minion, and I think it's the cutest thing and I want a reason to actually use it.

I've used minions on occasion in RP for a variety of reasons, usually in scenes that are comedic or sentimental in nature.  One of the best use of a minion in RP I've seen is when a friend who RP's an engineer constructed an accompaniment node ICly to keep him company while going through martial issues with his IC wife.  I'd laugh so hard each time to the node went "beep boop" over IC LSes to signify his IC loneliness and grappling with personal issues. 

Sigurd sometimes helps take care of a fat cat he gave someone very close to him; it's mostly a comedic plot device.

Yup. I use the Mammet all the time.

Two of my characters make use of minions!

Hoshi has three, Bun, Sassie, and Pluph. Bun is a baby bun, Sassie is a fat cat, and Pluph is her panda familiar. Bun she bonded with in the Shroud, Sassie she found on the docks, and Pluph is a lesser panda who was gifted to her (and later became her familiar). 

Simi has Noh, who isn't really hers (he belongs to her eldest son), and he's a coeurl cub. 

Back on WoW people used their battle pets (basically the same thing) ICly sometimes. Novi used to have a little baby dragonhawk she'd take care of on occasion. They're so cute!

Occasionally I use the Wind-Up Goblin to represent a pint-sized goblin that follows my character around. His name is Liar, and he's a mute. Technically it's not inaccurate that he never tells the truth.

I only acknowledge them if someone else does first. Begrudgingly at that.

I definitely do, as seen on my wiki page for Chachan. Gran the Baby Behemoth has been used in quite a few RPs in the past, bounding around and generally thinking more highly of himself than is probably necessary, and there's even been a forum RP involving just him. Technically Chachan has also amassed an oddball assortment of other pets through RP (Icarus the Eggplant Knight, Cake the Fat Cat, and most recently Cube the Demon Block), but I've finagled ways for them to be doing stuff "offscreen" and thus never really use them (Icarus guards the gardens against marmots and the like, Cake chills in the Medical Ward).

My most used minion, though? The cushion. Every Runestone you can see Gogonji being a elitist grump by refusing to sit on the ground and instead busting out that cushion. Even had a conversation over its usefulness recently. Gogon also technically has King (Gestahl minion) and an animated journal he got from deep within the Gubal Library (Page 63), but neither see as much use as the cushion.

I've used Smallshell, the Brickman, the Black Chocobo Courier and a couple of others at times.
Kell being a magnet for weirdness, I just have them chill in the general area.

It might be a bit cheesy and immersion breaking for some, but I typically use the wind-up Sultana to represent Kinono's daughter during RP. It seems a nice compromise between "just pretend there's a baby here" and playing a whole other alt simultaneously.

Before that, Kinono made use of a little servitor mammet pretty regularly, and I even made sure to TaLk★LiKe★ThIs whenever it had to speak.

Osk is really good with animals, which is mostly an excuse for me to use whatever minions I find the cutest in RP (but mostly the fat cat).

For many of the non-wind-up minions (and a few of the wind-ups, as well, such as the Qiqirn), there's no need for a reason to use them in roleplay. You just have to want to. If you want to, then you'll figure out a way to work it into your character's story, and that's that.

Case in point, NUTKIN.

NUTKIN NUTKIN NUTKIN NUTKIN NUTKIN.

Harasses the shit out of everyone in Osric's vicinity. Gods forbid it's around when he visits with someone.

I use a wind-up minecart minion sometimes as a pack-bearing mammet, but not too often. Jana doesn't really have time to dedicate to pets so while I've used a few in-character, it was mostly until she could sell them.

I actually have Nef having adopted the Coeurl Kitten an IC thing because that's so totally her. This creature that is a DANGEROUS WILD ANIMAL loves to go fishing with her. So far I haven't used it IC (bringing a pet to a bar might get her kicked out and/or cut drinking time) but it's in her history.

Both of his daughters have run off with awful Xaela savages and are never around, so Hiroto is relieving his empty nest syndrome with a paissa brat. A paissa brat he is spoiling rotten. Picture one of those old ladies who put their little yappy dogs in diamond-encrusted collars, buy them expensive designer beds, and feed them cooked meals. It's like that.