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Given the OPs desire to have their character be unconstrained by mainstream Eorzean culture, and given the significant amount of miqo'te present in Vylbrand, I think having their character raised by seafaring Roegadyn that spend most of their lives on the seas trading with far off nations would be a possible solution. Just one possibility. Ngl, I actually REALLY love the idea of a seafaring Roe family taking in orphaned children around the time of the calamity and raising them up to be privateers or even just seafaring adventurers. I'm just imagining this super diverse sea family with Miqo, Elezen, Lala babies, hell, even a few random Au'Ra tweens all growing up together to be a badass family that hails the sea as their parentage. That just brings such a happy grin to my face.

I would totally volunteer my Miqo'te as being part of a pirate tribe. That sounds effing awesome.

@Faye True, true. It is rough, though I'm mostly asking to gauge just how often people have something to say about other players that have plots/origins they don't particularly like or are tired of seeing. It's been a really long time since I played on Balmung. I wrote a Miqo'te lancer for a while who had the dream of becoming a Dragoon, and luckily I never really got shit for it... but I had someone else in our very same guild who was a Miqo DRG and every time she was offline, people would talk crap about it... it was kind of discouraging. But granted, she had other issues that made her less than popular in the guild that I don't even remember (some drama between her and a few other members...? IDEK?) What is the KISS method, though, might I ask? @Chris I dig this a lot. I haven't been on in a while so I haven't seen any characters from Doma yet, but I can see where this is far more canon-friendly. That's actually a really cool idea to play with. I also dig the idea of a Tia who just got tired of the Tia life, haha~ I don't blame the guy one bit. @Madda I wish I could +Like posts or something. I feel this hardcore. I think that's my biggest drive for wanting to write a Hyur-raised Miqo, simply because for the sake of plot, I really don't care to make a character that has an inherently typical Seeker upbringing, the character I have in mind is just not one it'd work with, she's too impulsive and jealous, and I think she'd have been utterly miserable as a Seeker female growing up in the harem. Granted, I could just have her be a catgirl who ran away from the life. But I'm also kind of tired of Eorzea in general and more interested in having her come from a fanmade place "across the sea" that doesn't play a very confining or distracting role in how I play her present life. I think that, while Miqo'te tribal lore is fascinating and in-depth, it just isn't for everyone and can be a little confining, especially in naming conventions. @Zhavi I could be making it a little more than it should be, but it's still nice to talk about. Like, yeah you are right that a kid from Korea adopted into a US-centric family would act like a US citizen, no doubt. There are people who don't give a fuck about birth families, some who do, etc. I'm mostly asking to see how much shit I'd get for making a character who didn't fall into lore structure to a tee. But you also make a good point that I think I really needed to see/hear -- "No matter what you do, there's going to be someone who doesn't like it, so you might as well just do it."

So I'm still working out the kinks of this idea in my head, but with E3 recently, a few people in the Chrono fandom got hyped (and subsequently crushed) at the lack of Chrono anything. (Except for SE's 2015 hype trailer using Chrono music, haaa... thanks for that, SE.) Long story short, it kinda tickled the sleeping Chrono fan in me, but none of the members that returned to the compendium fandom seem to be roleplayers. 3 I'm planning on coming back to FFXIV once Heavensward drops next week, both for gameplay and for RP since I've kinda been on hiatus for the last two or three months. Except, I'm really tempted to get a linkshell together of people who are also into Chono Cross/Trigger and want to try and fandangle some sort of CC/CT themed RP together. I'm thinking it'd actually be an intentionally small to medium sized group. 20 members at the very most if we can get someone to step in for Trigger's 8 main characters, a couple NPCs, and an equal or similar amount of Cross characters. The whole Chrono RP would be an AU from the plot of everyone else's characters—think of it as having a forum RP where you have your established character, but there's a subforum where you've got like a "high school AU" and you take your character and tweak it into this alternate plot with others to interact similarly in a setting that doesn't affect your main plot. Players would be able to pick/claim the Chrono canon they represent (someone your character would be most similar to, or someone you wouldn't mind your character to be similar to for the AU sake of this RP.) Say, a "Zacharaiah Cross" (random name) signs up and wants to represent Crono from CT. With a little glamour-ing, Zachariah joins as our Crono. Whoever comes in representing our Lucca would automatically have a past friendship with Zacharaiah, as Crono and Lucca were childhood friends. Whoever comes in as Marle would probably have the option of a romantic subplot between each other, as Crono and Marle had a romance (but it's honestly up to the players, if ya'll prefer a platonic friendship that's cool too.) And if you're REALLY hardcore interested and even want to make an alt with the actual characters' name, look, and personality, that's totally accepted, too. I'm thinking, if we really want, we can hang out just as the characters casually some days but on other days we can have scheduled "episodes" of group-wide storyline where we are sure we can all be online together at once and take part in scenes similar to the ones from Chrono Trigger or Cross, we could bounce ideas around on the forums to drive our groupwide plot/RP sessions around, etc. I think it'd be fun. Any Trigger/Cross fans around with an interest in this? So far it's just me wanting to RP an Eorzean AU of Kid like crazy, and I'd love to hang out with someone who wants to be Marle, or Crono, or Serge, or even Lynx, etc. It'd definitely take a lot of OOC idea bouncing to see how everyone would fit together in one (Eorzean) universe. Any takers? :3

Transethnic characters? How does the RP community fare with this? Are there other players who have characters of Miqo'te ethnicity, but brought up by Hyur families? I'm talking people who were basically infants at their time of adoption, probably having Hyur-sounding names and generally being Hyur by culture? If you've got experience as one, how do you usually write this into your characters' plot, or convey it to others? (Generally, I'm sure other RPers will be a little confused by an RP Miqo with a name like, "Adriana Hawkins" y'know?) I mostly ask because I main miqo'te characters 9 times out of 10, but alternatively, what about say lala characters raised in Elezen families, or even Elezen youths, displaced by circumstance, being raised in Roe families? Considering the calamity in canon, I don't see it being too far-fetched for an adoptee to have been taken in by a family or older adventurer who simply doesn't give a damn about racial and cultural barriers. I wish there were examples of this in canon (and if anyone can point out examples in canon/NPCs where you have cross-ethnic families/adoptions, I'd love to see how lore handles it... I feel Minfillia counts with her relationship to F'lhaminn.) Characters from "far off lands" With the recent release of Heavensward and the new locations, does anyone have plans for "far north" Miqo'te characters who simply grew up in any of the Heavensward hamlets or cities? Alternatively, does anyone RP characters from "far off lands" in a way, ie, a Hyur who hails from the writer's own fanmade region across the sea? How well does this get recieved? I mean, at the end of the day, yes, it is simpler to "just make an Eorzean" and fit them into the rules of Eorzea (Nunh/Tia conventions, nomadic Keeper males, forest-based Elezen or nationalistic Ishgardian Elezen, etc.) but I always feel there's room for statistic outliers. Elezen folk who don't quite fit the "typical image" of their race, or lalafells born into a family of travelers who have been to far more places than Ul'dah or Gridania, lalafells who come from pastoral families on the plains of Lominsa who worship neither the coin nor magic and spirituality. Idk, I'm rambling now. Does anyone else simply just feel "too confined" by having to make their characters conform to the typical rules of their characters' race or expected place of origin due to said racial confines? I'm looking right at all the Miqo players who have been told they can't have a Miqo'te Dragoon/Lancer or a Miqo'te from Coerthas because "Miqo'te don't like the cold" or "Miqo'te tribes don't work that way." Or people who have Miqo'te that don't follow typical Keeper/Seeker naming conventions. Idk, I mean... in the real world, a person from France isn't strictly going to always be born in Paris and do stereotypical French things. Sometimes you meet someone from France who was adopted into a Muslim family that spent half their youth growing up in Canada. How do you play cross or transethnic characters or characters who are from different (fanmade) places all together?

Hey, all! Looking to join up in some sort of FC or linkshell to get some roleplaying going... really looking for something with sort of a school or academy feel to it? My character's about 16, so I don't see her really fitting in with a lot of war-based guilds at the moment. Anyone looking for a trainee tinkerer / future mechanist / all-around kleptomaniac? Apologies in advance if this isn't the right subforum for this! >.

Ahh! You guys are lifesavers! ♥ Thank you for the info!

Does anyone know if it's possible? I mean in an oldschool way, sort of like the photography in Fable 2 or in Legend of Zelda. Probably something based more in fantasy than technology. I was thinking about making a character who carries around a camera and loves to take pictures of Eorzea, have them come out a bit sepia and old-timey through photoshop filters and throw it on tumblr. Do you think that'd be too out of place though? Like, ideally, I'd want it to be small enough to carry around (which actually isn't like the one in F2 or Zelda...) and the camera that comes to mind is the Camera Obscura from Fatal Frame. It's old/steampunky enough in appearance. I figure if people ask, "But how technology?" we could explain it off as, "Aetheryte/Magic/We have mech suits." Idk, what say you?