(10-28-2015, 03:58 AM)Aya Wrote: It really depends how one lives. Many people live not doing anything at all (relying on family, friends, etc). Others live by begging, though many do not live all that well.
I think its a stretch to say that no one could make a living by entertaining, especially when such entertaining is so obviously integral to the culture as it is in Ul'dah. I also don't think its a stretch at all to suggest that many of these individuals might be more prone to temptation for other avenues of earning income than the general population
What I meant is that I doubt that in the settings of Eorzea there are as many willing to pay you to JUST dance (and not sleep with them afterwards) than there are today. Today a dancer can fill up a theater to be seen dancing, but in Eorzea's times? You've got to be very expensive and good to be paid to just dance and by enough people to make a living by the end of the day.
Dancing is born by the natural instinct of attracting a sexual mate. It is a series of movements that enhance your body and call to attract others to it. There is a lot of animals that perform ritual dances on their mating season, from birds to marine mammals, and man is not any different from that. Dancing and sex are interwined and bound to each other in society, and only in our very modern times we are trying to stray a little from that (though not so much, see all the borderline-porn music videos that are coming out today, for example).
To be an interesting, intriguing, well-written character, there needs to be something to allow the audience to relate to them. That is what the problem is with who wants their character to be "perfect". Perfect characters will never be strong, and strong characters will never be perfect, because WE (those who read, who watch, who RP) are not perfect.
"What makes a strong character is how they deal with their flaws, their fears, their turmoils, their troubles that get in the way. That's what makes them relatable." -- N.C.
"What makes a strong character is how they deal with their flaws, their fears, their turmoils, their troubles that get in the way. That's what makes them relatable." -- N.C.
