I completely agree with this. There is always room for exceptions in the universe of Eorzea. I mean, look at Lucia. Had she been a RPer instead of an NPC, how much bashing would she have received for claiming to be Ishgardian? Or in the Temple Knights? Ew no, Ishgard would never accept a Garlean!
I understand that there is a general etiquette of "everyone wants to be special, so no one can be special" among the RP community, but not everyone is going to comply to that, and we have to accept it. The grief towards RPers who are not "perfectly normal" in every singular aspect of their IC background, appearance, behavior, occupation, whatchamacallit is completely unjustified and I dislike it even more when people use IC dialogues to point out at it.
I have been ICly yelled at for being inside the Quicksands as a commoner because the guy said "it was for adventurers only", and that even though I was there to HIRE adventurers, he told me I was supposed to assign my pledge to the Leve counter and leave. Yeah right, how am I even supposed to do that? It's not like I can actually leave a banner on the counter for people to see and get back to me.
"Do it on the forums."
And cut out the majority of RPers? Only an abysmal part of us uses these boards, or any boards.
But yeah, all in all, there is a thousand things I could point out ICly that I find wrong (non-virgin spouses marrying in white dress, guests at weddings wearing wedding dresses themselves, or even just couples marrying after only weeks or months of relationship, just to bring up one single topic (Eternal Bonding) ), but would I bring it up ICly with them? No. Why? Because if someone did that to me I'd find that terribly annoying and pedantic.
Don't treat others the way you don't want to be treated. It couldn't be any easier than that.
EDIT: It took me a bit to think of the right metaphor, but in the end, to be "the perfect RP character" is much like being "beach body ready".
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The truth is, there is no beach body ready, and there is no perfect RP character. Whether you are fat or thin, or super lore restricted or more "lore exceptional", there is always someone who will criticize you. There is always something you are doing that someone else will not like, so let us avoid run our mouth on others, especially IC, thinking that we are better in our choices for our character than they are.
"Have you seen how fat she is? And she comes at the beach? She should be ashamed."
"Oh Gods, look at how thin she is, and she comes at the beach. She's calling for attention sooo bad."
The only requirement to be beach body ready is to be at the beach.
The only requirement to be a roleplayer is to roleplay.
I understand that there is a general etiquette of "everyone wants to be special, so no one can be special" among the RP community, but not everyone is going to comply to that, and we have to accept it. The grief towards RPers who are not "perfectly normal" in every singular aspect of their IC background, appearance, behavior, occupation, whatchamacallit is completely unjustified and I dislike it even more when people use IC dialogues to point out at it.
I have been ICly yelled at for being inside the Quicksands as a commoner because the guy said "it was for adventurers only", and that even though I was there to HIRE adventurers, he told me I was supposed to assign my pledge to the Leve counter and leave. Yeah right, how am I even supposed to do that? It's not like I can actually leave a banner on the counter for people to see and get back to me.
"Do it on the forums."
And cut out the majority of RPers? Only an abysmal part of us uses these boards, or any boards.
But yeah, all in all, there is a thousand things I could point out ICly that I find wrong (non-virgin spouses marrying in white dress, guests at weddings wearing wedding dresses themselves, or even just couples marrying after only weeks or months of relationship, just to bring up one single topic (Eternal Bonding) ), but would I bring it up ICly with them? No. Why? Because if someone did that to me I'd find that terribly annoying and pedantic.
Don't treat others the way you don't want to be treated. It couldn't be any easier than that.
EDIT: It took me a bit to think of the right metaphor, but in the end, to be "the perfect RP character" is much like being "beach body ready".
The truth is, there is no beach body ready, and there is no perfect RP character. Whether you are fat or thin, or super lore restricted or more "lore exceptional", there is always someone who will criticize you. There is always something you are doing that someone else will not like, so let us avoid run our mouth on others, especially IC, thinking that we are better in our choices for our character than they are.
"Have you seen how fat she is? And she comes at the beach? She should be ashamed."
"Oh Gods, look at how thin she is, and she comes at the beach. She's calling for attention sooo bad."
The only requirement to be beach body ready is to be at the beach.
The only requirement to be a roleplayer is to roleplay.
To be an interesting, intriguing, well-written character, there needs to be something to allow the audience to relate to them. That is what the problem is with who wants their character to be "perfect". Perfect characters will never be strong, and strong characters will never be perfect, because WE (those who read, who watch, who RP) are not perfect.
"What makes a strong character is how they deal with their flaws, their fears, their turmoils, their troubles that get in the way. That's what makes them relatable." -- N.C.
"What makes a strong character is how they deal with their flaws, their fears, their turmoils, their troubles that get in the way. That's what makes them relatable." -- N.C.
