(06-30-2015, 12:24 PM)Magellan Wrote: It really weirds me out that people are perfectly fine icly with such a drastic change to their bodies, when there is so much good rp to be mined from 'wow, I feel completely different.'
It's a great opportunity to grapple with themes such as racial identity, identity of self, and how much of physical appearance makes a person who they are.
At that point though, you are running the risk of making your IC Fantasia into an integral part of your character, which some people may find to be in poor taste. In the end, your race change didn't happen because of your backstory - your backstory happened because of your race change. So there's something to be said for having a brief and glossed-over explanation for your race change, so that you can move on and actually RP something that's not just a justification for something OOC.