(01-30-2015, 02:47 PM)Kinono Wrote:Well naturally, I don't mean to suggest it's impossible, maybe not even rare. I like to think it's a challenge ICly, but not necessarily a complete barrier. For instance, maybe your character surrounds themselves with people who see them for who they are, and not how they look. I imagine the protective instinct most animals with long infancy/juvenile periods tend to feel is easily haywired. In those species, the baby is helpless for a very long time, as opposed to species where the child is born practically ready to hunt on its own. That's why I feel it's likely maternal/paternal instinct is so much stronger in those species.(01-30-2015, 02:33 PM)Caspar Wrote: I'm fine with the idea of lalafell romance even with mixed race couples, but I would rather gloss over the distasteful stuff. On a certain level, I can't not see them as children. I think that in setting other races would have a similar problem, and it takes a certain type of individual to look past that and recognize them for being fully fledged, mature adults.
Ahh... I tend to have very much the opposite opinion/experience. Many people I tend to deal with admit that they wouldn't romantically deal with a lalafell but for (the obvious) purely OoC reasons. I don't think I've actually ever met anyone ICly who's referred to lalafell as looking childlike. Though, granted... I play a lalafell exclusively, so maybe they're just hiding it from me!
It's like how people regard their pets. In reality, the animal is a fully grown adult. But because it's been trained to exhibit infantile behavior, people tend to think of them as young or needing protection. I think the same problem would exist for a small race. The qualities are reversed. Behavior in this case is like an adult, but the appearance is not. In regards to romance, getting over that barrier and making the other party understand they don't need to be babied could be an interesting challenge, and could provide a lot of rp opportunities. Of course that never would happen between Lalafell.
As for not saying it IC and only saying it OOC, maybe it's because there's a lot of different ideas on how to handle that dissonance, even in a thread like this, that it's maybe easier just to avoid the rp topic for some altogether? I don't know about that, though... XD
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