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CalebAgron · **01-12-2014, 06:03 PM**

I haven't made my Miqo'te Characters RP yet so I'm not 100% certain how I will Roleplay them. I do know I would certainly make use of their ears/tails in my RP, having his/her ear scratched or nudging her head against someone in a cat-like manner to show affection certainly. The only cat-like quality I most likely could not use is purring, not that I have anything against people who do, just my characters will most likely not. Personally I think the cat aspect of the race should be played out, otherwise why should I RP a miqo'te at all? Why wouldn't I just stick with Hyur if I didn't want to give any cat like aspect to the character. Just my opinion on the matter.

Naunet · **01-12-2014, 06:38 PM**

(01-12-2014, 06:03 PM)CalebAgron Wrote: Personally I think the cat aspect of the race should be played out, otherwise why should I RP a miqo'te at all? Why wouldn't I just stick with Hyur if I didn't want to give any cat like aspect to the character. Just my opinion on the matter.

Cause they have the best [hair/faces/animations/cultural lore/etc]. There are a number of reasons one might use to decide to roll a miqo'te over another race. >_>

Tefh · **01-12-2014, 07:14 PM**

Hello!Â First time posting on these forums.Â First thread I've looked at here too, come to think of it.Â I normally don't do much forum-ing, you see, but a friend of mine linked me this.Â I'm actually a daisy and it's very hard to type with roots and leaves.Â Sometimes I just smash my petals on the keyboard.

How cat-like is my Miqo'te?Â Not at all.Â She is, however, alarmingly wolfish.

I RP my character in a way that, if I sum it up here, I'm sure many people will cringe.Â And scoff.Â And wrinkle their noses.Â "What a scrub!" You may say.Â "Noob.Â I'll never RP with her."Â BUT WAIT, WHAT'S THIIIIIIS IN MY HAT?

Haha, kidding, daisies don't wear hats.Â I did, however, pull up a slip of paper from my sleeve with a reminder written on it.Â Daisies have bad memories, you see.Â I left myself a note to remind myself before finishing this post that not ONCE in all the months I've been playing this game as Tefh has anyone OOCly given me a bit of flack for how I RP my character.Â I RP with strangers a lot, often I approach them myself.Â One of the benefits of being a daisy and not a violet; they never approach people.Â Not that I'm racist or anything against violets.

Tefh wags her tail when happy.Â She barks when alarmed sometimes, yips when in extreme physical pain.Â Her ears often show more of what's going on in her head than her facial expressions, which are were often blank.Â Now, she's been getting better over time at showing her emotions the way most people do, but she still has so very, very many habits that a person ought not to probably have.Â Does it make the character silly?Â Only when I want it to.Â In a time where I'm with my friends and feel like lightening the mood, I may describe what she's doing in a manner that earns some chuckles OOCly.

But it's entirely possible to have a character be "feral" in this manner and quite serious.Â The trick is this: putting a lot of thought into why the character is how they are.Â Tefh's upbringing is what made her who she is, and it is through her interactions with the community that she's begun to change and lessen the severity of her wolfish habits.Â Body language, facial expressions, these are things we pick up on like any spoken language.Â It's a means of communicating.Â As she socializes more with normal people, she is replacing her habits and adapting to the 'new' body language so that others can better understand her.

Despite how sensitive I am to negative feedback (daisies are not known for being sturdy), I have a strange obsession with RPing characters who embody aspects that others tend to automatically hate, with the intention of showing others that not all ideas are as bad as they seem.Â 'Feral' Miqo'te, for example.Â I've met a lot of people who dislike it heavily OOCly, but not once have I heard them complain about -my- character's habits, and they even continue to seek RP with me.Â I guess it's a 'how you do it' thing.Â I'm told I pull it off thoughtfully.

Wrapping up this longer-than-I-planned-on post, if you do happen to come across someone who is ICly a bit more...animalistic than you think is reasonable, consider this: what backstory could they have that might have given this result?Â Not every RPer stepping out of the box is doing so blindly, and perhaps they're not actually passing the barrier of lore at all.Â It's up to each person who they'd like to RP with and who they'd rather not, of course, but maybe withhold judgement on someone until you get a better eye for why they're doing what they do.

(re-stating, I am not racist against violets. sorry to any violets reading this but you guys are so shy omg)

Berrod Armstrong · **01-12-2014, 07:19 PM**

Well put.

Nebbs · **01-12-2014, 07:34 PM**

I kept meaning to post to this but people kept dangling RP string in front of me.. *pounce*

So I'll just leave this here, which I used to get some of the cat mannerisms.

Cat Speak

CalebAgron · **01-12-2014, 07:40 PM**

(01-12-2014, 07:14 PM)Tefh Wrote: Hello!Â First time posting on these forums.Â First thread I've looked at here too, come to think of it.Â I normally don't do much forum-ing, you see, but a friend of mine linked me this.Â I'm actually a daisy and it's very hard to type with roots and leaves.Â Sometimes I just smash my petals on the keyboard.

How cat-like is my Miqo'te?Â Not at all.Â She is, however, alarmingly wolfish.

I RP my character in a way that, if I sum it up here, I'm sure many people will cringe.Â And scoff.Â And wrinkle their noses.Â "What a scrub!" You may say.Â "Noob.Â I'll never RP with her."Â BUT WAIT, WHAT'S THIIIIIIS IN MY HAT?

Haha, kidding, daisies don't wear hats.Â I did, however, pull up a slip of paper from my sleeve with a reminder written on it.Â Daisies have bad memories, you see.Â I left myself a note to remind myself before finishing this post that not ONCE in all the months I've been playing this game as Tefh has anyone OOCly given me a bit of flack for how I RP my character.Â I RP with strangers a lot, often I approach them myself.Â One of the benefits of being a daisy and not a violet; they never approach people.Â Not that I'm racist or anything against violets.

Tefh wags her tail when happy.Â She barks when alarmed sometimes, yips when in extreme physical pain.Â Her ears often show more of what's going on in her head than her facial expressions, which are were often blank.Â Now, she's been getting better over time at showing her emotions the way most people do, but she still has so very, very many habits that a person ought not to probably have.Â Does it make the character silly?Â Only when I want it to.Â In a time where I'm with my friends and feel like lightening the mood, I may describe what she's doing in a manner that earns some chuckles OOCly.

But it's entirely possible to have a character be "feral" in this manner and quite serious.Â The trick is this: putting a lot of thought into why the character is how they are.Â Tefh's upbringing is what made her who she is, and it is through her interactions with the community that she's begun to change and lessen the severity of her wolfish habits.Â Body language, facial expressions, these are things we pick up on like any spoken language.Â It's a means of communicating.Â As she socializes more with normal people, she is replacing her habits and adapting to the 'new' body language so that others can better understand her.

Despite how sensitive I am to negative feedback (daisies are not known for being sturdy), I have a strange obsession with RPing characters who embody aspects that others tend to automatically hate, with the intention of showing others that not all ideas are as bad as they seem.Â 'Feral' Miqo'te, for example.Â I've met a lot of people who dislike it heavily OOCly, but not once have I heard them complain about -my- character's habits, and they even continue to seek RP with me.Â I guess it's a 'how you do it' thing.Â I'm told I pull it off thoughtfully.

Wrapping up this longer-than-I-planned-on post, if you do happen to come across someone who is ICly a bit more...animalistic than you think is reasonable, consider this: what backstory could they have that might have given this result?Â Not every RPer stepping out of the box is doing so blindly, and perhaps they're not actually passing the barrier of lore at all.Â It's up to each person who they'd like to RP with and who they'd rather not, of course, but maybe withhold judgement on someone until you get a better eye for why they're doing what they do.

(re-stating, I am not racist against violets. sorry to any violets reading this but you guys are so shy omg)

<3 Tefh. Very well said!

W'seckhi Asah · **01-13-2014, 05:34 AM**

I'd say Fiona actively tries to suppress any feline features she has, short of lopping off her tail and ears. That, and she's even abandoned her tribal name, as well. But as for how I play Fiona, she doesn't emote with her tail or ears, unless drunk, nor does she hiss. She's not one for purring, either. Basically, a Hyur with crazy ears and a tail. However, her keen smell and powerful legs, both racial traits of being Miqo'te, come into play quite frequently. I image a kick from one would hurt like hell.

Otte · **01-13-2014, 07:59 AM**

To me the amount of "cat-like" behaviour depends on the character. Otte for example acts, or tries to act, more like a Huyr with ears and a tail, since he's spent a while in Limsa and wanted to fit in. The only thing he can't control is his ears and tail, so they still show off his mood quite easily, for example his tail twitching when annoyed, and bristling up when really angry. And he likes to use his nose a lot, sniffing the air when in new places and all that.

His brother on the other hand purrs, growls, rubs against people, and is more expressive through body language rather than words. He's a tribal Miqo'te through and through, so I figured he would act more "feral".

Xha'li Moui · **01-13-2014, 07:45 PM**

Of my two catboys one is still under heavy development so I can't say with him, but Xha'li will occasionally purr, and I do emote his ears and occasionally his tail.Â Overall I play him as more on the human side with some slight feline tendencies and nods to his improved sense of smell and better ability to pinpoint sounds thanks to his moveable ears.

Fates Skein · **01-14-2014, 05:28 PM**

I play my 3 miqo'te in slightly different fashions. All of them have excellent hearing and senses of smell.

C'rhisi is a sun seeker from a desert area. Â She has many traits of lionesses- growls instead of purrs, semi-retractable and extremely sharp claws, upper and lower fangs (the canines and the 1st premolars which are right behind the canines are all sharp). Â Her ears and tail as well as her stance are expressive of her emotions even when her face or voice show something else- like when she's trying to be polite but is really angry her tail and ears will show it even when her voice is sweet. Â She'll roar if really furious and I play her as having a wider range of vocalizations than a human would. Â I have also toyed with the idea of her having pads on her feet though that's not something I'm fully set on. C'rhisi also has excellent vision for movement but does not have a particularly good sense of color. She can recognize various colors but when things get into subtle shade differences she can't really tell (and thus has worn slightly mis-matched dyes before, like wine and dalamud red together in one outfit for instance).

I've a moon keeper that is based more on panthers. Â She, also, has expressive ears and tail, has a growl to her voice when she is happy (not a purr), and though I've not played this out yet, if truly enraged or hurt, she'd scream. Â (Look up leopard scream or cougar scream on youtube for examples). Â She, too, has claws and fangs- she even lacquers her claw-tips to make them more obvious.

Lastly is another moon keeper that I haven't really decided on yet. Â I do know I will likely base her on a wild cat versus a domesticated one. Â Possibly something like a caracal or ocelot.

Raeletta · **01-14-2014, 06:02 PM**

(01-12-2014, 07:34 PM)Nebbs Wrote: I kept meaning to post to this but people kept dangling RP string in front of me.. *pounce*

So I'll just leave this here, which I used to get some of the cat mannerisms.

Cat Speak

So I read that. I get blinked at a loooot o_O am I doomed to be an old cat-man? D:

TsukiCrim · **01-14-2014, 06:19 PM**

Mine typically are cat-like in physically aspects. Their ears flatten when sad or embarrassed, their tails swish when comfortable or anxious. The occasional hiss might come out when too angry to express words or a murr-like sound when they are feeling cozy around other Miqo'te.
They also gently headbutt as a sign of affection and have an affinity for yarn...

U'roh Tia · **01-14-2014, 09:03 PM**

(01-14-2014, 06:19 PM)TsukiCrim Wrote: Mine typically are cat-like in physically aspects. Their ears flatten when sad or embarrassed, their tails swish when comfortable or anxious.Â

Â Bout sums up what I do with Roh here, the more comedic elements are there for when applicable. ((String tosses, nip jokes. Etc.))Â

I however mix my stuff up with a varity of human style emotions as well. Mixing say a raised eye brow for a with a perked ear on the same side for confusion. Sadness represented by sad eyes and a tail between the legs. Twitching ears when angered, that sort of thing. Guilt or shame by ears flattened. That sort of thing!

I also roll Roh's R sounds ala the Nunh in the Forgotten Springs. Though I don't extend every sound to avoid being obnoxious.

AvalonBright · **01-18-2014, 02:38 PM**

Throw me in the camp of "If you're going to make some argument about miqo'te being uncatlike, why are you even playing one?" It reminds me of a chick I know who is in some RP with canon characters, and basically destroyed the character's personality and everything established in her lore just to fit her personal view of the character instead. Really kind of irritating.

They're cats. They're not wolves, they're not humans with ears, they're cats. Their emotes are catlike, they have catlike eyes, they have and emote with ears and tail, etc. Anything else is just some kind of weird denial, to which I say--why are you even playing one?

This of course doesn't extend to people who have interesting reasons of course--disliking their race, wanting to fit in, etc. But people that just dismiss their entire racial identify for some kind of "head canon"...Just play a Hyur.

That said, Ashe is very catlike. She's a pretty serious, if occasionally snarky, mage and scholar (literally, not the Job--but that too!), but she's still a cat. Of course she emotes, she hisses, she purrs and snuggles up and rubs up against people she likes when they pet her, etc. And of course she gets startled and flustered if someone tries grabbing her tail unexpectedly.

Kendha'to · **01-18-2014, 05:03 PM**

Not sure it's fair to say that those qualities you just described (rubbing against people, hissing, etc.) is in any way, shape, or form playing up to the Miqo'te's "cultural identity." They have cat-like features, but they're not housecats. Feel free to espouse those qualities if you so desire - nobody should be telling you how to play your character - but I also don't want to hear that those who don't "might as well be Hyur." There are many interesting aspects of Miqo'te society, including what players have created for their individual tribes and such, and it's all a lot more involved and interesting than simply "they're cats."

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