(07-03-2015, 10:31 PM)Lilia Lia Wrote:I needed to do that because /yes is by far my most used emote, and the Lalafell smiles slightly while doing it, which I felt was out of character.(07-03-2015, 07:02 PM)Caspar Wrote: I made macros that forced /straight during the animation so Virara could do those gestures without smiling.
That's great. I also did something similar with adding /smile to the /upset emote for a dreamy sigh, and a /smile to the /sulk emote for a bashful eye aversion. I love how you can use expressions to change emotes like that.
Anyways, I've also thought that lalafells are cuter when they act more serious. That's part of the fun of it. Virara has a real presence based on what little I've seen of her though, one of the few Lalafells who cranked up the height slider.Â
Anyway, I appreciate it. Virara is even taller by a bit ICly. I think you can only go about 3'3" ingame, and Virara is 3'5" and growing. She is probably the tallest Lalafell anyone has seen. and were she to keep growing upward, at some point she might be considered to be actually "giant" for their race. If she were to go into a Plainsfolk burrow-village, she'd be hitting her head constantly.
... >_> This may be a plot point later on. But mainly, since she is a fistfighter, she needed the slight increase in height to be able to trade blows in a way that is only slightly awkward with a typical Hyur of middling height, at least without jumping a lot, which she does anyway. It's another case of aesthetics writing the character for me, in which I visualized what I wanted to do in rp and tried to make a character that served that purpose.
I've never been one for the "characters as people" thing, and I assembled traits that made sense and could be strung into a cohesive background as I went. If it vaguely resembles a plausible individual, I'm satisfied, but I want them to serve my purposes more than anything. I imagine that for a lot of players, the same is true of why they chose the race they did. For me, I wanted to fuse "cute" and "tough," "dark" and "hopeful," and so did I reuse an old character idea and make it into Virara. I've never been above rehashing myself if nobody around has seen the original... :v Well, I did give it a new spin at least... Anyway, if the race serves your storytelling purpose, there's no worry of whether it's popular or unpopular, but I do like the fact that Lalas aren't overly common, as they are amongst non-rp players. It gives my character that much more distinctiveness to not be amongst lots of violent, sullen lalas with dependency issues.
We probably should rp more. Actually, Virara needs to sharpen her reading comprehension in Eorzean, lol.
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