Quote:1.) Who cares if the game can't depict your character 100%. Many aspects of a character can't be visually represented in-game. We shouldn't limit our character to the confines of the game's technical limitations due to visuals. That isn't to say, "hey, my character has wings!" or "my character is actually an Amal'jaa!" What it means is adhering to the lore, what is accepted in the lore, and what is accepted in the roleplay community.
I ussually don't let the limitations of the creator stop me when imagining characters. However, the limit forces one to think if you really want that particular physical feature and, if you decide you indeed do, how to show it within the limitations. For example, maybe I want my character to be missing an eye completely. That's quite fine and all I have to do is just emote at the beginning of an interaction to stablish it. The same could be done with a half-breed, certainly.
Quote:2.) On the matter that other RPers won't recognize the fact that the character is a half breed, thus dismissing the social stigma that is associated with it, I call to example character height. Character height can only be depicted in-game up to a certain extent, basically what the game limits us to. Say a full Wildwood stands at a staggering 7 fulms and 6ilms. He's considerably taller than normal Elezen standards, but this isn't depicted in-game, only in RP. Being different, in any way, can be a social stigma. With the case of height, others might make light of him, shun him, or even fear him. Don't think so? Look at the handful of books and movies that have this social stigma as a backdrop to the character.
The books and movies don't serve any purpose here, because neither of them are cooperative storytelling. In a movie/book, the author can pick a trait, decide it's a social stigma, and have all the universe adhere to that. In roleplay, you have characters controlled by other players. The social stigma aspect of your character dissapears instantly if the majority of the other players don't follow up on it. If you claim your character is stigmatized, but no one but NPCs of your making are there to stigmatize the character, he isn't really stigmatized. It's just background. As said: the whole social stigma thing falls apart if the other players don't follow it.
At least if you want the social stigma to be an active part of the character, I mean.
Quote:3.) Here is a list of things that are considered rare occurrences or things that happen in the RP community that shouldn't have as much abundance as they do, yet they are accepted none the less.
Male Miqo'te
Garlean Turncloaks
Ala Mhigan Refugees
White Mages
Dragoons
Black Mages
People with knowledge of Magitek technology.
There's a difference with some of those and half-breeds.
Male Miqo'te sudden growth in population has to be handwaved or explained somehow because the game allows for players to create them, unlike half-breeds,and most players will use whatever means the game gives them to create the characters they want. This will mean there might or might not be many male Miqo'tes running around. Mechanically, male Miqo'te can now be as plentiful as any other.
Something similar happens with White Mages, Dragoons and Black Mages: the game allows the player to (eventually) become one, so we have a small story-and-gameplay segregation where, in lore, some of those classes are ancient lost arts and should be exceedingly rare but, in gameplay, they will be plentiful.
This two occurrences are mistakes on Squeenix loremaking: we are forced to handwave their inconsistency for the sake of roleplaying what they give us.
The other examples: Ala Mhigan refugees, Garlean turncloaks and people with magitek technology populations are highly dependant on the roleplaying community. If there's no lore contradicting the existence of any of those, or specifying that they are very rare, then there's no reason to think they are. If there is, though, then they are a 'trait' of your character. Personally, I'd say that, except for the Ala Mhigan refugees, the other two are a 'Thing' or 'trait' about your character anyway.
I can see why you say garlean turncloaks should be rare (because of the brainwashing and imperial propaganda), and the same with magitek technologists (since Eorzea isn't very high tech), but I'd like to see where you saw that Ala Mhigan refugees are rare in lore.
At the end, though, you can play whatever you want if you have good enough reasons to justify it.
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