I initially created my Sea Wolf as a tribute to my longstanding Draenei Paladin from Wow.
Oh the hours that I poured into perfecting the profile page that explained how my rugged draenei lady was not a piece of flawlessly oversexualized eye-candy! I labored constantly over that block of in-game text, agonizing over the best way to convey her physique or the perfect wording for her scars. I endlessly tweaked those descriptions for optimum effect, and looked up synonyms for ugly in the dictionary. Only to have all my efforts go to waste, when other RPers didn't even bother to read my efforts and were only interested in flirting with her.
Admittedly it was fun getting to sock them in the jaw for it, but I always found myself wishing that someone could see the muscular, disfigured palladin in my head, rather than defaulting to the poofy lipped, doe-eyed, H-cup owning character model.
Then one day my wonderful boyfriend sat me down with the benchmark for some strange remake of this failed Japanese MMO. (Yeah, I was not convinced.) He mentioned something about checking out this new race that started with R and was spelled very strange.
So I opened the creator and there she was, the giant, powerful lady, with blue eyes and a huge smile that I had been trying in vain to describe for the past two years!
Of course I started out with the idea of remaking my old favorite, but I quickly fell in love with Sea Wolf lore and FF14 lore in general. I've always had a love of the ocean and sailing, with a soft spot for R. L. Stevenson. In other words it was only a matter of time before the Sea Wolf lore won me over completely.
Several years later, Klynzahr has become the polar opposite of her soft-spoken, pious, demon-loathing, tough-as-nails predicessor.... and it's great!
Oh the hours that I poured into perfecting the profile page that explained how my rugged draenei lady was not a piece of flawlessly oversexualized eye-candy! I labored constantly over that block of in-game text, agonizing over the best way to convey her physique or the perfect wording for her scars. I endlessly tweaked those descriptions for optimum effect, and looked up synonyms for ugly in the dictionary. Only to have all my efforts go to waste, when other RPers didn't even bother to read my efforts and were only interested in flirting with her.
Admittedly it was fun getting to sock them in the jaw for it, but I always found myself wishing that someone could see the muscular, disfigured palladin in my head, rather than defaulting to the poofy lipped, doe-eyed, H-cup owning character model.
Then one day my wonderful boyfriend sat me down with the benchmark for some strange remake of this failed Japanese MMO. (Yeah, I was not convinced.) He mentioned something about checking out this new race that started with R and was spelled very strange.
So I opened the creator and there she was, the giant, powerful lady, with blue eyes and a huge smile that I had been trying in vain to describe for the past two years!
Of course I started out with the idea of remaking my old favorite, but I quickly fell in love with Sea Wolf lore and FF14 lore in general. I've always had a love of the ocean and sailing, with a soft spot for R. L. Stevenson. In other words it was only a matter of time before the Sea Wolf lore won me over completely.
Several years later, Klynzahr has become the polar opposite of her soft-spoken, pious, demon-loathing, tough-as-nails predicessor.... and it's great!
