My main character is a Miqo'te Keeper who is living in sin with an Ishgardian Hyur whose family stole away to Gridania when things in Ishgard started getting bad. Why am I a Miqo'te and his parter a Hyur? Because I like the way Miqo'te males look in most of the armor sets in this game (I'm a tank) and my RL girlfriend who plays his in-game girlfriend likes the look of the Hyur. That's pretty much the only reason.
At the end of the day, it boils down to play what you want to play. You pay your same $15 as everyone else in this game, so you're entitled to your own flavor of pretendy fun time. If you want to break lore, find other people who like to break lore and go nuts. If you just want to bend it a tad, find others who agree and plop down in their sandbox. If you're a stickler for it and IC Black Mages send you running to the Padjali in a flutter of panic and tattle-tale fervor, then you do you, boo. But just make sure you're having fun with it. What's the point otherwise?
At the end of the day, it boils down to play what you want to play. You pay your same $15 as everyone else in this game, so you're entitled to your own flavor of pretendy fun time. If you want to break lore, find other people who like to break lore and go nuts. If you just want to bend it a tad, find others who agree and plop down in their sandbox. If you're a stickler for it and IC Black Mages send you running to the Padjali in a flutter of panic and tattle-tale fervor, then you do you, boo. But just make sure you're having fun with it. What's the point otherwise?
