(04-15-2015, 05:06 PM)cuideag Wrote:(04-15-2015, 03:11 PM)Faye Wrote: Patronizing meme featuring minorities used in a thread about minorities.
Oops.
Are you seriously trying to make this an argument of RL race now? Really??? Really?
The meme was not meant to be patronizing in any way. I actually thought it might lighten the mood of the post, but perhaps that's just because I find the commercial hilarious because the meme has become a sort of running joke with a few friends and is frequently spammed in our FC every time someone is trying to make a choice between two things. Not even going to touch on the "minority" stuff because that's just really grasping at straws.But back on topic and disregarding that nonsense, to elaborate on my own thoughts, there are exceptions to every rule. Anyone is welcome to RP as they please, and I've always found sending people personal messages about how their character's backstory is "wrong," or demanding an explanation how it fits into the lore, is rather silly and rude. Playing these exceptions is often alluring, but the problem is that when the majority wants to role-play the "exception," it stops being the "exception."
There's really no way to work around it except to just sort of handwave it and pretend it makes sense canonically (such as how lorewise, Miqo'te are supposed to be a very rare and secluded people, yet they make up a huge chunk of the player character population). After all, we can't have any sort of RP police telling people what they can or can't role-play to allow a privileged few to play the "exceptions" for a plethora of reasons ranging from the obvious ethical wrongness to the fact that others could simply just ignore them.
If I have a concept I really like that involves an unlikely combination of templates or traits, I'll still go with it if it interests me enough and I'll do my best to make it work. I'm not going to refrain from RPing something I'd really enjoy just because it's "unlikely" and I don't expect anyone else to do the same. Otherwise, though, I try to keep it simple. Unless there's some concept I'm really sold on, I try to refrain from being "exception" when I can. I'm not usually drawn toward those sorts of characters since I prefer things more straightforward and by-the-book (I play an elf to be snooty. I play a villain to be evil. I play a mage to cast spells, etc.), but it almost feels kinda like a courtesy thing. And since it seems to need saying--no, I don't expect anyone else to do the same, that's just how I approach the topic.
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