Freemoon

I've seen this as a tactic not only here, since there have been several before today like this that ended up deleted soon after, but in other forums as well. My favorite had to be in another forum where I made a very non-serious rant post about wanting to buy a real working lightsaber and a post very much like this came up talking about Star Wars: The Old Republic, then ended with "If you want to buy working lightsabers or wow gold contact me at (info)".

This is the case with my Miqo'te. Right now, her name reflects the family that found and raised her and she has no idea what her true birth name is (she has almost no memory from before being found by her adoptive parents, save a few brief flashes). However, I do plan to give her a proper name at some point, even if it isn't reflected in the character name as seen in world. But I expect her search for who she is and her history to be a long one with so little info to go on, and it didn't make any sense to me to name her by a Miqo'te name if it takes more than a few weeks or months to learn who she really is.

I kinda like that bit there, since it could also lead to the character being a little "off". Not completely insane or anything like that, but like one of those people that means well but goes about it in a completely oblivious sort of way and doesn't realize they aren't quite helping as much as they think they are. The sort of person who has a very firmly set in stone belief that things are a certain way and there is no room for any alternate interpretation in their mind.

But that's the best reason!! (Kidding, kidding!) Just like in real life, there are sometimes things I'm just not comfortable sharing with my guy friends or asking for their help with, even when it isn't a gender specific issue. It could simply be an issue of comfort and trust similar to how other groups of like-minded people gather.

He used to be one of my favorite characters in the Doctor Who world, but ever since what he did at the end of "Children of Earth"... I mean I get it, I really do. I don't hate the character because he was trying to save all those kids, but it still left a mark on how I have seen the character ever since. On the other hand, I've been sorely tempted to make a character loosely inspired by his ex-partner John Hart. Not that much different in some aspects, but a little less good guy compared to Jack. Plus everything sounds cooler when you imagine it said in the voice of James Marsters. :lol:

For my main, the only direct inspiration comes from a few older characters that I really enjoyed playing. She's not a direct copy of either of them, but certain aspects of their histories and personality were used as building blocks for creating the character. I can't honestly say that other characters didn't indirectly provide inspiration, but I didn't use anything of other characters intentionally. On the other hand, I have an alt idea that is loosely inspired by a few characters including Richard from the webcomic "Looking for Group", Haruko from FLCL, Nai and Mea of Magiranger and G'nort the Green Lantern. It might seem like an odd group of inspiration for one character, but it works in my head (although to be fair, I'm a bit odd, so that could be why :blush: ).

Fixed that for ya, Olofantur Hey now, those farmers work hard in those gold mines where they sow their gold seeds and... What? You mean that isn't what it means? But seriously, this is pretty crazy and I'm sad to see that it was able to happen. Kinda glad I'm poorer than dirt than has been swindled to buy a farm in the middle of Lake Michigan at the moment.

I'd like to know this as well. Part of my character back story includes a love of plays (the kind one might see at a fair or a public outdoor theater) and this sort of thing would seem like something she would be excited to find out about or stumble upon.

It is a bit difficult to find an exact look-alike given the skin tone of my character, but I have seen a few that come close in terms of how I see her bone structure and face build. And the one I thought was most similar was, uh... Not exactly an appropriate model for the forums (DON'T JUDGE ME!). :blush: But I think Mika Kikuchi comes pretty close. Just imagine her with the dark skin, different eye color and Miqo'te ears. Although I MIGHT be a bit biased since Dekaranger is my favorite Super Sentai series and she was DekaPink.

That has been practically the go-to response for a friend of mine, altered slightly for whatever the setting allows. In games with a sci-fi style, the scientific route was the usual explanation, ranging from experimenting with or practicing new medical procedures or being locked inside a controlled environment experimenting with volatile chemicals, pathogens or sensitive materials. In fantasy style settings, it could be anything from researching new spells, practicing alchemy or experimenting with a combination of natural remedies and potions. This also allowed for a smooth transition if the real life situation became more complicated, since more than once she contacted us to say she wouldn't be back for a couple of weeks. In those cases, we said the experimentation went wrong and she had to go through decontamination or being tended to by someone who could fix mystical injuries and the like.

Back in Star Wars Galaxies, a similar explanation was used with my character having gone off to visit her cousins, although only a small number of people were ever specifically told that it was on Dathomir. We built up an explanation that the clan's land was too close to certain mineral deposits that interrupted the com signals. I wonder if there would be something similar that could disrupt linkshell communication (I haven't researched it that much yet). But if not, I could certainly see my character switching them off if she were too upset or just too emotional to deal with anyone or otherwise felt she needed to deal with something alone. Those two have to be my favorite, and I could easily see the first leading directly to the second.

As someone with less than perfect health, I find that every so often (not common, but it happens a couple times a year at least) I have to leave behind a game for anywhere from a day to a couple of weeks, usually without being able to give any advance warning. As such, I've often found myself making plans to explain my absence IC if I've become part of a regular RP group. In the past, such explanations have varied from "She's recovering from illness/injury" to "She's gathering healing herbs in a remote location" and even the amusing "She's either recovering from a hangover or ate too much candy". I'm curious if anyone else has similar plans in place. You don't have to give away details if you don't want, but I'd like to know I'm not exactly alone in making plans just in case.

Have you been to Ul'Dah, recently? There's a trio of female Miqo'te dancers there. They may not be from Ul'dah originally. They may have come there later and use their dancing talents as a means to make money, not unlike people who perform on the streets of large cities (not to be confused with people who "work the streets" in large cities). For some reason, it doesn't seem out of place to me in Ul'dah, but I'd find it strange to see it in Gridania. Limsa Lominsa could go either way. But that is just my opinion based on my own impressions from the lore and storylines of the different cities, and I could be way off.

So for the same sound, you'd have C'ex. Which... is weird, so you could go for your 'hk' idea: C'ehk. Though the sound would be ka-EX, which may not be what you have in mind. That is partly why I said it was a stretch, but sometimes wanting to use a specific name in an MMO is less about the pronunciation and more about having a certain spelling or very much near it. For instance, when I use a name with "Ali" (such as Alicia or Alikathra), I still want the Ali part to sound like Ali, so A'likathra wouldn't work for me. On the other hand, when I want to use something like Kaelia or Ilanwod, it is more about the spelling than the pronunciation, so using K'aelia or I'lanwod is fine even though it would make the name sound completely different. This is also why I didn't end up adapting any of my preferred names directly to Miqo'te naming conventions. I couldn't find a way to adapt them that I would be happy with that also fit the naming conventions.

One of my favorite "bad" characters was something like that. A decent chunk of what made her so cringe inducing was because I kinda pushed some of my own buttons and gave her some traits that I normally find very annoying. There were still a few aspects we shared, like my love of cheesy bad puns, but otherwise she was the sort of character that if I met her in the real world I'd probably want to punch her after two minutes.

While continuing to nail down character info for my character (Cut me some slack, I like details), I was amused by the thought of some of the similarities between my character and myself, and how past characters have shared similarities as well. I also got to wondering how much of other players are in the characters that they play. Even when playing a character completely different from yourself, a bit of you could still bleed through. So just how much of you is in your character? There are a few things that hold true across almost all of my characters, so Ali is no exception: - Loves sweet things (candy, cookies, fruit drinks, etc.) - Loves spicy foods (although in reality I'm not supposed to have them due to ulcers, but they are SO GOOD!) - Wanted to grow up to be an animal (I wanted to be a tiger, Ali wanted to be a Chocobo) - Finds odd things cute or romantic (actually my entire thought process is a bit odd) - Disaster when attempting to cook (I burn soup, Ali does too) - Terrible at pick-up lines (not that I expect it to come up, but my best pick-up line has been either stealing Ralph Wiggum's "So, do you like... stuff?" or my own "I, uh, like the way, uh, you have a belly button?")

While I don't really have a problem with the idea of someone playing a child character, I just don't think this game lends itself all that well to the idea. I could see someone in the young/mid teens (maybe 14 to 16), but any younger than that seems a bit iffy for a multitude of reasons, several of which have been stated. I'm not saying you shouldn't play the idea, just that it might not get the reception you are hoping for.

Another option to keep the original spelling to a degree would be a mix of Keeper and Seeker naming conventions. Using Seeker male naming, you could use C'aex. It might be a bit of a stretch, but the wiki article points out at least one NPC that is clearly a Keeper model that uses Seeker naming conventions, and I've seen at least a few players using a mix of naming conventions while running around in game. I hope you find a way that you feel works for you and that you feel works within the naming conventions of the lore. I've got a couple names I really like using in MMOs myself for similar reasons, and I just couldn't figure a way to make either of them work with Miqo'te naming conventions.

Well you already seem to have seen the naming conventions, so you've probably got a page like this one to call on. If you really wanted, you could use the name you wanted (provided it is available, of course) and work up a reason why it may not follow traditional naming conventions. It could be an alias or a false identity created for who knows what reason, or you could say the spelling and/or pronunciation of the name is similar to how some names in real life languages and cultures are altered slightly for another language (an example being some Super Sentai translations call a specific character "Mare", but the official translation is apparently "Mea").

I can't say I blame you, but who knows what the future may bring? I know that for me at least, every so often I just want to take a short break from my character (not a hiatus, nor do I want to stop playing or develop a whole extensive new character), so it may be an idea you could revisit in the future. I've gone ahead and made a couple of alts already even though I have no intention of actively playing them (yet). Part of it was to secure a name I liked, part of it was to pick up the special earrings, and part of it was simply to toy around with character creation to see some more of the custom options of the other races.

Nope, they were still around as of yesterday.

You'll probably get an answer from me eventually, but only after I've had a chance to give it some serious thought. And by serious thought, I mean that both as deciding what would be interesting to be known, and also to not answer the second question by saying most people should be told "I think she was dropped on her head as a child" or something.

I don't really think of my character as unique, but I don't think she's like everyone else either. She is who she is, with her own hopes and fears, strengths and weaknesses and so on. It is a bit hard to really say what drives her without giving too much away, but I can say that a part of it is to recover what she has lost. Her adoptive parents passed away, she can't remember her birth parents, and she longs to have some sort of family again even if it is just a couple of really close friends. She also wants to find out who she is, both in terms of discovering that as she goes along as well as finding out about her people and where she comes from (both culture wise and, maybe, finding out about her biological family). She also secretly harbors a wish that she were a Chocobo, but that is because she's a little off. It might sound a little bland or boring, but that doesn't include the journey, her day to day life and all the little things that could come along.

You're not alone, so don't worry! In my eyes, skilled RP is anyone who is putting forth an effort to be a character and having fun while doing it. Some people like to get really into detail and live out the lives of their characters, some people like to simply speak in character every now and then, and neither of them are "wrong" or "right". As long as you're not godmode/metagaming or trying to control how someone else RPs, then you're going to be fine.

My teenage goddaughter has a Kindle Fire (and I hate her for having a cooler toy than I do), and she's looking to download a few games. The problem is that many of the games cost money and we're not exactly flush with disposable income, nor do we know too many people who play app games aside from Angry Birds that we could ask for suggestions. So I thought I'd come here and ask if anyone knows of any interesting games available for the Kindle that might be worth snagging. She's interested in RPG games and tactics type games (like Final Fantasy Tactics or Pokemon Conquest for example), as well as the occasional pet raising/battling type games and card games (like TCG games like Magic: The Gathering, not Blackjack or Solitaire). They do have Final Fantasy III, but as we already have it for the DS she's not really interested in buying it again unless it plays differently. Feel free to also suggest other types of games if you know of anything interesting, since she's always open to giving other games a try.