(06-19-2015, 12:56 PM)Manari Wrote: I think the word "tribe" causes some stereotyped images in people's minds. Just because Miqo'te live in tribes doesn't mean they all wear loincloths and dance around a campfire with bones in our hair. We see the U tribe in Forgotten Springs, they have houses and a nice community and are essentially just a village of people. Our FC has a house in the Shroud's housing district because that's the only place the game lets us put houses.
The FC itself is a clan made up of Keepers of the Moon who have lost their tribes. We all were found, or found the clan, and came together to form a new tribe. So we all have our tragic backstory. It's really the only way to have a FC like this unless you have everyone make new characters specifically for this kind of group. A true Keeper tribe would have to be made up of a few close families living in a small community. Manari's IC hangup with this trend of Miqo'te forsaking their tribes is that she is so passionately traditional and loves her history and traditions so much, that seeing Miqo'te to scoff at and even hate their own ways just hurts her.
The U tribe, much like the illiteracy stuff, is yet another example of a discrepancy between what the game gives us and what the Lore Panel tells us. Ferny said that the Nuhn is usually not the head of the tribe, and yet when you do U tribe quests, you hear NPCs say things like "The word of the Nuhn is the law" and so on. I'm fine if SOME tribes have Nuhns also taking care of leadership, but it wouldn't hurt to have some other NPC Seeker tribes out there that show us a Tia ruling about to justify the Lore Panel's statement, as well as Seeker tribes not looking like Maori tribes but something a little more westernized (for example, La Noscea is supposed to be a common area for Seekers of the Sun. I'd find it interesting to see an NPC Seeker Tribe of fishermen/pirates there, with the Nuhn being just a Nuhn, and not also the leader.
But I suppose that's something the devs don't worry about much.
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.
