To preface this, I've been playing FFXIV since alpha/beta for 1.0. I still remember the disappointment when they announced that male Miqo'te would not be a thing in XIV, and was annoyed that they hadn't learned their lesson from years of people asking for male Mithra in XI. Merri would have been a Miqo'te in a heartbeat had then been an option, but, he wound up being a Midlander as that was my second choice. Even still, he wound up being sort of a playful/mischievous flirt, as he was originally going to be if he were a Miqo'te.
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However, come ARR, I couldn't resist the temptation of finally making him a Miqo'te, so he was retconned into a Sunseeker and that was that. I roleplayed him as a Hyur for years, and looking back, I can't imagine him as a Hyur anymore. Miqo'te wound up being such a perfect fit for his character.
I think I mentioned this earlier in a different thread about names, but I actually wound up really enjoying the dynamic of having a Miqo'te without a traditional tribal name. It gave me the opportunity to play a very civilized and, well, non-tribal Miqo'te. Granted, you could do that regardless, but I like to look at it as him being one step further removed from it all. He's a Sunseeker who has literally no concept of the tribal lifestyle, and thinks the really tribal Miqo'te are a bit on the barbaric side~
Some things never change, though.
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However, come ARR, I couldn't resist the temptation of finally making him a Miqo'te, so he was retconned into a Sunseeker and that was that. I roleplayed him as a Hyur for years, and looking back, I can't imagine him as a Hyur anymore. Miqo'te wound up being such a perfect fit for his character.
I think I mentioned this earlier in a different thread about names, but I actually wound up really enjoying the dynamic of having a Miqo'te without a traditional tribal name. It gave me the opportunity to play a very civilized and, well, non-tribal Miqo'te. Granted, you could do that regardless, but I like to look at it as him being one step further removed from it all. He's a Sunseeker who has literally no concept of the tribal lifestyle, and thinks the really tribal Miqo'te are a bit on the barbaric side~
Some things never change, though.
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