(06-19-2015, 06:31 PM)Zhavi Wrote: I don't understand this attitude. If I were to be in a rp that takes place in the real world, and want to rp someone of Korean ancestry who is a US citizen, would people still have this idea of "it's getting old how all you people want to play Koreans who aren't actually from Korea and of the Korean culture" ?
I mean, you can come up with all these human race stereotypes that I ... don't want to use as examples because I don't want to create race arguments, but just -- whatever floats your boat, but please don't discourage people from creating characters that make them happy. In my experience, playing solely to please other people is going to make you unhappy at the end of the day.
No matter what you do, there's going to be someone who doesn't like it, so you might as well just do it.
In the real world, a lot of kids are given up for adoption or otherwise orphaned. In game, however, lore tells us Miqo'te are rare with a small population. For Keepers, males are rare. For Seekers, only certain males are allowed to breed in order to create the best offspring. For a race so focused on procreation for the longevity of their tribe/clan, it's weird to think so many would be orphaned, weirder still so many would be picked up by other races (especially considering Miqo'te are often somewhat secluded from the rest of society and other races). The comparison is pretty much apples to oranges, but yeah, if I was in an RP set in the real world and half the characters involved were Korean adopted by American parents, I'd be a little confused.
Either way, I'm not discouraging anyone from doing it, so please don't put words in my mouth when there was no indication of that in my post. I just think it's helpful to give people fair warning that others might wrinkle their noses at their character, because some people don't want that, and others don't mind but like to be prepared to face it.
(06-19-2015, 06:52 PM)Kousagi Wrote: @Faye True, true. It is rough, though I'm mostly asking to gauge just how often people have something to say about other players that have plots/origins they don't particularly like or are tired of seeing. It's been a really long time since I played on Balmung. I wrote a Miqo'te lancer for a while who had the dream of becoming a Dragoon, and luckily I never really got shit for it... but I had someone else in our very same guild who was a Miqo DRG and every time she was offline, people would talk crap about it... it was kind of discouraging. But granted, she had other issues that made her less than popular in the guild that I don't even remember (some drama between her and a few other members...? IDEK?) What is the KISS method, though, might I ask?
Keep It Simple, Stupid! It's a mantra people typically use to remind themselves not to overcomplicate or overthink something.
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