(04-18-2015, 11:11 AM)K Wrote: I have no problem with RP'ers who happen to ERP but I admit that I just get annoyed whenever I see an actual ERP'er; probably largely do to the fact that almost every, single one of them just happen to be miqo'te - and while I know I should just ignore it, I can't help but feel my main's race is just the victim of some debaucherous image and I already despise the stigma that miqo'te are, for whatever reason, often slapped with. Even the terms "Catgirls" and "Catbois" have started grating on my nerves a little lately.
The thing is that Miqo'te are by nature promiscuous and portrayed to be so by the game, with many, many Seekers being proud prostitutes or eager to slip in bed with your character. Keepers are more subtle but the lore states clearly that the idea of only having one lover is abhorrent to them. Promiscuity is lore when it comes to Miqo'te.
This combined with them being.. well, they're cat-people. Cat girls/boys is one of the most popular kinks around, you're going to get that crowd along with the basic idea of cat-people.
Personally, I had Rakka'li get around a LOT in roleplay (to the point of being so sick of it that I wrote a reason for him to be emotionally distraught over the idea of casual sex so that I could avoid it easily), because that's what I firmly believed he'd be inclined to do as a "typical Keeper male" in this mindset, and I can assure you that there's plenty of non-Miqo'te who ERP, plenty.
I chose a Keeper male way back when we first got the lore because they were stated to be heavily matriarchal, and sound reasoning lead us to believe that promiscuity would be their tendency (it was a long time before we got proof, but mine, Rakka'sae's, and Myxie's conclusions hit the nail on the head) so I wanted to see what people would do with this very strange, very unusual culture. If not for that combination of assumed promiscuity and matriarchal tendencies I would've been a Duskwight.
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Unfortunately, there's only so much weird that 99% of roleplayers can accept. Even those that advertised being traditional keepers that engaged in promiscuity ended up in the majority just slipping back into real life typical sexual mores (or worse, using the culture as a cover for lesbian/futa fetishization). After a year and a half I gave up entirely.
So yes, there's plenty of poor ERPs who use Miqo'te as a vehicle for their sexcapades, but there were a few of us who were honestly interested in exploring that weirdness in RP and seeing what others would do with it, or how it would react with others (the answer is they fucking ignored it, spoilers).
Seeker sexual mores are a hot button issue around here, but I sometimes wonder if they had better luck exploring that weirdness than I did with Keepers.
