Quote:Quit clinging to "sex" and "breeding" as the emphasis, please. There's a lot more to a culture's choice of how their relationships and family structures occur than that, and by focusing specifically on throwing out those terms you're focusing on the wrong thing. Yes, to a lot of people RP and roleplayed relationships are all about ERP. I don't think anybody here is actually discussing that. What's being discussed, as far as I can tell, is the culture of the species as it relates to relationships and family structures, of which the actual act of giggity is a very small component
I wholeheartedly agree with you there. Of course familial relationship structure is important to a culture, and I think people who avoid that aspect of Miqo'te culture in their RP are certainly missing out on something interesting and possibly new to their viewpoint. I still don't see what that has to do with getting people to "admit" why they've chosen a race. If they chose Miqo'te because they're "kawaii," then that's pretty obvious from the start who does that and who doesn't. I mean, this cherry-picking has been going on since choosing races in games has been a thing. It's not to my personal taste, as I like exploring fictional cultures, but what are you going to do?
Quote:While it's absolutely valid that to many players the aspect of "whee, my miqo'te male can have so much sex" is a selling point, we must remember to let that sort of thing rest as a judgment against that player being in it for the ERP, and not a judgment against the culture of the race being about sex (because it isn't).
Was someone in this thread judging Miqo'te culture directly? If so, I missed it. It's kind of crap if they did though. I know people do turn up their noses at Miqo'te as a race because of the polyamory aspect, dismissing it outright as ERP-bait. Which is really sad because, in a way, it's dismissive of real life cultures that exist today.
