Actually I just think a lot of miqo'te roleplayers are tired of the constant "catgirl" associations. I didn't pick miqo'te for my character because I wanted to be a kawaii desu uguu animu nekomimi. I didn't pick miqo'te for my character because I wanted to be an instinct-driven, barely-sentient beast-person.
For IC purposes I picked miqo'te because the looks and lore set them apart from hyur in a sort of small, ethereal, fey-like quality that is generally filled by elves in most fantasy, but isn't here because elezen have very different qualities than most elves (they're also huge). For OOC purposes I picked miqo'te because they have the best animations and (other than /pose, which clearly the best /pose is male highlander) the best emotes.
None of this has anything to do with cats, and a lot of us are tired of miqo'te being viewed as cats when they are not cats. Miqo'te are miqo'te. They are near-human sentient beings with (very) vaguely beastly features. The ears don't even look like cat ears, or any extant animal's ears; they look like miqo ears, and that's what they are.
I, and many other roleplayers, don't understand why we have to equivocate miqo'te to anything else. It's only miqo'te, too. Lalafell aren't equivocated. Roegadyn aren't equivocated. Elezen aren't equivocated. So why are miqo'te? Because the animators gave them a kawaii desu uguu animu nekomimi /pose emote? Because there's that "meow" character that acts or speaks nothing like any other miqo'te NPC in the entire game?
tl;dr version: Miqo are miqo. They aren't cats. They're people with fuzzy ears on the tops of their heads and tails. Trying to constantly equivocate them to cats is just encouraging the kawaii desu uguu animu nekomimi crowd.
For IC purposes I picked miqo'te because the looks and lore set them apart from hyur in a sort of small, ethereal, fey-like quality that is generally filled by elves in most fantasy, but isn't here because elezen have very different qualities than most elves (they're also huge). For OOC purposes I picked miqo'te because they have the best animations and (other than /pose, which clearly the best /pose is male highlander) the best emotes.
None of this has anything to do with cats, and a lot of us are tired of miqo'te being viewed as cats when they are not cats. Miqo'te are miqo'te. They are near-human sentient beings with (very) vaguely beastly features. The ears don't even look like cat ears, or any extant animal's ears; they look like miqo ears, and that's what they are.
I, and many other roleplayers, don't understand why we have to equivocate miqo'te to anything else. It's only miqo'te, too. Lalafell aren't equivocated. Roegadyn aren't equivocated. Elezen aren't equivocated. So why are miqo'te? Because the animators gave them a kawaii desu uguu animu nekomimi /pose emote? Because there's that "meow" character that acts or speaks nothing like any other miqo'te NPC in the entire game?
tl;dr version: Miqo are miqo. They aren't cats. They're people with fuzzy ears on the tops of their heads and tails. Trying to constantly equivocate them to cats is just encouraging the kawaii desu uguu animu nekomimi crowd.
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