(12-22-2013, 06:25 PM)Kismet Wrote:Now don't hold this to fact, but I THINK it might be a move made to avoid embarrassment. Since Hyur are the most like human, and the other races might hold different ideas and such, its only natural to be worried that the next thing your character says might be viewed more Hyur than your background suggests. (I'd wager because of the fact that we actually ARE human, and thus think like humans.) To be completely honest before reading this thread I was going to make that move, for the exact same reason. However, I have now decided to read up on the lore, fix myself into it, and try this the RIGHT way. Not to say anyone elses is the wrong way at ALL. Just saying I was going to take the lazy way out.(12-22-2013, 05:17 PM)Naih'ir Wrote: Ironically, I have not met many miqo'te who roleplay their miqo'te as well, miqote. Most of them roleplay their miqo'te as: "I was adopted by a X race" or "I left my clan for X reason" where in a society that is so structured as it is, it would be VERY VERY outlandish to leave your clan - other clans would probably look down on you for abandoning your family.
A Miqo'te leaving their clan does not bother me nearly as much because it's an active choice and (one would assume that) the characters are aware of the consequences associated with it.
I am a bit perplexed by people's fascination of having their Miqo'te adopted by Hyur, though.
I have read through a lot of Miqo'te bios on the RPC Wiki. Not all of them, but a pretty decent chunk. A portion of those bios feature Miqo'te who were adopted. And for the life of me, I can't remember a single one where the character in question was adopted by a race other than Hyur. (I'm sure there is at least one out there. I just haven't come across it yet.) The notion of the character being adopted itself is fine. Adoption happens, obviously. But why do they have to be adopted by Hyur parents? What's wrong with having a Roegadyn, Elezen, or even a Lalafell for a parent? Why couldn't they just be adopted by other Miqo'te for that matter?
I'm not saying that no one's character should be adopted by a Hyur at all. What I'm confused by is the fact that a lot of those adopted Miqo'te are being RPed just like humans (that or the player may be using this adoption to justify why the Miqo'te is disconnected from their culture/dislikes tribal Miqo'te/whatever). Do some feel as though their catgirl or catboy has to be adopted by a human to act like a human? Why do they have to be adopted at all to act or think any sort of way? Can they not just act the way they do or have the preferences that they do because they choose to?
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