(09-03-2013, 02:18 PM)Mewnie Wrote:(09-03-2013, 02:06 PM)Siobhain Wrote: So far I've known two characters with 'robot arms' to some degree or at least prosthetics that they had some explanation for. Neither of those people seemed particularly stupid, in fact I think both were pretty well liked, nor would I have lumped them in with 'escaped demons'. Generalizing doesn't do any good, really. I also don't see an issue with magitech eyes-- Maybe I'm too used to fantasy settings with alternative methods of seeing though. If you sacrifice your physical vision in order to see heat or magic or something like that, then if your method looks legitimate, I'll accept it and it'll likely be the first time I ever heard it in this setting. If you were -already- blind and there -may- be some way to use what's in the world to your advantage to give you some semblance of sight (assuming you're not an Elezen, and according to some people Miqo'te ears won't help ya) or some other sense that can help, then why not?
The thing I'm railing against is that this trope has become pretty much a running joke. When every other person is a cyborg, I think it's been run into the ground enough (and by your own admission, you have two characters who are this way already. I think you need an intervention :p)
This is only my personal experience that I'm really opining on- I just think that roleplayers need a little more, ah, restraint. Too many times they have their character lose an eye or a limb just cause it's cool and a robot part would be bad ass, but it doesn't really add anything of real substance to the character. It's just fluff.
Actually, by my admission, I -know- two people with characters like this already. ^.^ My characters are wholly intact, s'far as I know, but if two people out of however many members of the RPC exist with character wikis so far requires intervention then maybe I should reconsider anything I thought I knew about percentages and fractions. Doesn't seem to quite make 'every other person' but then, math isn't my strongest suit, I guess.
Maybe there's part of me that wants to see characters that are self-labeled as proficient fighters, swordsmen, assassins and such actually -fight- once in a while in RP and see how many chunks they can carve out of each other to warrant such 'bad ass' maiming. I'd love to lop a guy's arm off and see how he handles it or get Sio's eye poked out in the midst of some skirmish with some stranger despite all efforts made to prevent such maiming. I could see, though, why coming in with a character who's already Edward Elric'd could seem a bit exasperating to -someone-. I dunno. Sounds like typical smarm to me.
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