(03-08-2016, 08:42 AM)Warren Castille Wrote:(03-08-2016, 08:40 AM)Edgar Wrote:(03-08-2016, 08:33 AM)Warren Castille Wrote: Cross-breeds are confirmed canonically possible. However, consider that there's no way to represent this in your actual representative avatar. You'd be relying on people examining you, noting your search comment and then acting accordingly.
Generally speaking, you can expect a large number of people you might interact with to just ignore it and treat you like your base species. If that's worth the hassle of having to constantly remind people, and the potential stigma of people just avoiding you (since Au Ra are supposed to be "new" to Eorzea, meaning your parents are also a super rare meeting and romance) then go for it.
I work around this with Edgar by intentionally making his Keeper attributes dominant and the differences brought on by his Seeker blood very subtle, so when the inevitable explanation time comes, I can play it off as them simply not noticing because they were hard to spot to begin with.
This is an acceptable way to skip around it, but it does lend itself to two other potential hang-ups: The first is that you're telling someone their character isn't attentive enough to catch this in the first place, and the second is that if it never comes up, it's a worthless trait in 95% of your RP. That ties back to what someone else said about examining why you'd want to do it in the first place.
Universal "you" in this paragraph, not calling anyone out specifically. I just want to highlight that even the solutions offer potential problems.
I wouldn't call it 95% worthless most of the time... Especially in that example between Seeker and Keeper, which would imply a really, really interesting twist to explore between both societies, that are complete opposites. Be it a seeker mother with a keeper father, or the other way around. It brings up a lot of considerations on what was the childhood of the character, how they were seen by both sides, etc...
(03-08-2016, 10:54 AM)Warren Castille Wrote: This is why cross-breed with different races doesn't work in fantasy, in my opinion. At some point, someone's half-roe, half-lala offspring is going to mate with an au ra and then what the fuck do you even call that abomination?
That's also why I asked in some other thread I don't remember if cross breed offspring are fertile or not.
If not, that tends to solve half the issue at least, can't go past the first generation...
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