(10-06-2017, 10:00 AM)ExAtomos Wrote: I have personally had one of the few RPers on Atomos spam /disgust at me every time we encountered each other for changing into a Lalafell. I've been straight up told that my Lalafell can't be taken seriously in RP just due to being a Lalafell and while I guess this doesn't count as "hate"? the end result is the same.
ETA: I want to clarify that it's a noisy minority who acts like this! But to say it doesn't exist is disingenuous.
As - I would hope, at least - one of the "good" Lalafell compared to the less savory sorts, I've been pretty fortunate that most of the folks I RP with tend to take my characters decently seriously. If anything, I think it might be their personalities that play a larger part in how people interact with them - with cunning and conniving Gogon usually garnering a bit more respect than dopey little Chachan (except in matters where he can show off his smithing and whatnot).
However, I think the issue of being taken "seriously" becomes the biggest issue... in combat situations. I'll just say that straight out - there are many folks who have difficulty accepting a Lalafell as a creditable combat threat, especially in the martial roles. There's been threads before debating how strong a Lalafell is and if they could take, say, a Roegadyn in a blow-for-blow match considering equal skill and ability.
Some of it makes sense. Some of it doesn't. I've seen people put forth reasonable theories and assumptions regarding the physics of it all, but I've also seen folks who just feel like it's "bad" or "demeaning" to lose to a Lalafell in combat so they tend to just brush the loss off and act like they hadn't lost at all. Or that they weren't trying their hardest because "Lalafell."
It's basically a degree of OOC bleed where they are seeing this cutesy looking, child-like race and thus treating them like that even though in-universe that... doesn't really happen. And you even have members of said race doing some pretty non-cutesy things (see Teledji and Pipin).
And it often is just exaggerated when some Lalafell players also play them as shallow-cutesy, trolly, and otherwise to... basically continue the stereotype.
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