(03-09-2015, 04:01 PM)Edgar Wrote:(03-09-2015, 02:43 PM)Kage Wrote: An example of what I've seen as RP elitism:
Mocking people for what they named their characters, RP or PVE-wise. No matter if it's straight up fanboying, non-lore compliant, or joke name. You don't know the history behind it. For a year? ish, the only way to change your name is if you server transferred with a 3 days' space in between. For some, that is just not doable (Raid for example). And then for some, they've been RPing with that non-lore compliant name for months that you just can't retcon their name into something that does comply with lore.
Though, I do have the right to raise a small questioning quircked eyebrow when your name is made to be political inciting (George Zimmerman, e.g) but I will never mock you.
Koporo Aporo was initially a Plainsfolk, and as such his name used Plainsfolk naming conventions.
When I used fantasia to retcon him into Jajara's clan as a Dunesfolk, I forgot that you couldn't change the name.
Now, poor Kopo has an incorrect name and everyone knows him BY THAT NAME and changing it would be a difficult process...
There's no way for me to retcon Kage's name, though it would help me with SO MANY THINGS.
Even if his name not being lore compliant had never even came up, I just can't change his name now. @_@ I spent so many months with it and it's just... how the hell can you even rectify it? IMO you can't really and you just gotta RP with people who don't "care" about that little tiny snafu.
