Kinono

Is it the part that people don't think Lalas are sexy? Or maybe because people don't think it appropriate to crossbreed Lalas with other races? I'm mostly just teasing, but yes. All of that.

I wonder how likely cesarian section-style births are? Given the prevalence of preventative and responsive healing magics... Given the right people with the right skills in the right location, I could see this being "common enough."

I'm disappointed in, like, half of you. This entire thread just makes me /straightface. But not the neutral straight face. Just a straight face of vague disappointment.

Don't let this thread discourage you! The complaint isn't about people using voidsent in their plots, the complaint is against characters who treat voidsent as an everyday occurrence or summon them in public and expect everyone to just roll with it.

I've been wondering this too. Every time I have a somewhat realistic reaction to it (read: be rightfully frightened) the people in question who do the minion summoning keep moving their their dialouge/plot right along regardless and treat me as if my reaction were silly or unfounded. These will be standard characters too, guards, merchants what have you. Not the type of people that would have so much experience with voidsent as to just brush off any fear of their arrival as unreasonable. I wonder if the whole voidsent/demon angle has just so overused in fantasy media as to convey an undue sense of comfort with it.

Love is Kino's bread and butter! But she has a few rules. 1. No secrets. 2. Monogamy only. 3. Final Destination. Kino, having primarily learned of love by growing up reading Classic Tales of True Love and High Adventure has strong beliefs that only classic romance counts as love and that's the only thing worthy of even being called love. She's not afraid of flirtings and doesn't look down on those who sleep around to get their jollies, but that's not 'love' to her, and anyone who claims to be in a successful polyamorous relationship is lying, or their love is less because they have to share it. Kinono is currently engaged to be wed and in her own mind, she is the OTP.

I'll play around with them in character creator, but unless I make something that I feel really attached to or the lore surrounding them just blows me away, it'll stay confined to character creator. I got my hopes up for something a bit more... something. Different? Beastly. They're nice as they are, and I'm certain they'll appeal to a lot of people, but between the obviously (possibly pandering) dimorphism and the stated facts of basically being elezen and miqo'te with different ears, horns, and scales, I can't get excited about them. I just had my heart set on something different.

If Kino wasn't in such a "settled down" phase right now, you know you'd be able to count on me for crime. Maybe some day!

I'm gonna throw out a 100% agree with what Tiergan said. I'm sure there are people out there who's online social lives are 100% drama free, but for those that have experienced it, moving on and focusing on the positives are the best, and only healthy choice. If you're feeling bullied and cast out in a community of this massive scope and size, I can say with near-certainty that these feelings are self-imposed. Focus on the people who enjoy your company, on those who want to spend time with you or who you'd like to spend more time with, rather than the people who are neither of those things. If someone is legitimately hunting you down to bully you or messing with you in some way, don't give them the satisfaction of being hurt by it or posting a thread about it. Exercise your blacklist if you actually have to. Keep on livin' it up with the people you like, and if you don't have anyone you like currently, find some more people you like. Balmung is a massive server, and there are tons of RP circles, some smaller and more closed off than others. Weave your way in with people who have positive impacts, and who you can have a positive impact on, and your online social life will be all the better for it.

Oof, knew I shoulda fixed my wiki. It reeks of barebones and laziness. My first correspondence has been mailed! Thank you for the work put into initiating this!

Definitely still interested. Kinono Kino, non-anonymous, any frequency! I'd be frequent probably!

I know some people don't see the in-game events as being related to in-game time or anything like that, but The Rising was meant to be the 6 year anniversary of the Calamity, making it (hopefully) a canon year passing. If they really do throw some wrench into that and say "hold up, go backwards six months" I'm... more likely to just ignore that at this point. I celebrated my birthday and everything. > I know this is really boring for some people but given the connections and an attitude for drumming up roleplay, it's not hard to play a bed-ridden (or, at the very least, house-ridden) character, especially given houses and personal quarters. I find it a lot of fun to play a frustrated, pent-up-energy-ridden character myself, and it may be surprising how willing people are to come to you if you ask really nicely!

Real time! Best and simplest way to do it. At the very least, SE has said a year has passed.

Honestly, I, uh... Don't really see what the big deal is. I didn't really read the OP and get this sense of "FC event, hands off but everyone act really scared" that a lot of people seem to be reading. What I got out of it is "FC event, but I'd appreciate some help if you'd like to play a scared bystander because god knows one person can't play 5 NPCs all at one time." A lot of people seem to be taking this stance of "keep it private or don't do it at all, fractured timelines blah/blah/blah" and I do honestly see where you're coming from with that, but I really don't think it's uncalled for to make a thread asking for some people to play some scared bystander NPCs should it fit in for what I got the impression was a mostly-private FC plot to begin with. Definitely more appropriate than saying Ul'dah's water supply is tainted or anything like that (first I'm hearing of it, IC or OoC!). But, I dunno. Maybe I'm totally misreading the "friendly casting call" vibe.

Kinono is currently with child, about 3-4 moons in. If anybody is in the business of making pregnancy housecalls, feel free to seek out my attention!

Well, damn.

D-depends... That minion is anatomically correct...

Kino is a name I've used through a lot of online games. It's inspired by my one of my favorite anime, Kino's Journey. In adapting the name to FFXIV, I figured it'd make the most sense to use plainsfolk naming, but I strongly preferred the physical features/culture of dunesfolk, thus, Kino became a mixed-clan Lalafell. ...She also rides around on a chocobo named Hermes.

The Sahagin during the daily quests make mention of your kind not laying eggs like they do, regardless of the race you play as. Unless there's some sort of translation error, I'd take that as proof of live-birth.

Yeah, the no ERP tag thing is a bit ridiculous. People shouldn't be making unwarranted advances like that regardless.

I'm leaning towards the "pointless fear-mongering" side of things, now. It's a topic that warrants discussion, but... If people are already engaging in this type of behavior (that is, forcing their kinks, unwarranted, into the public domain), be honest, do you think they're going to go on this board to see that people had a problem, and then offer to defend themselves or even stop said behavior? My gil is on 'no' to any of those scenarios. Consent has always been the golden rule of RP, and those who are gonna break it are gonna break it. All this topic seems to accomplish, from my perspective, is to guilt those who are engaging privately to feel like they're being publicly shamed, and causing them to (maybe down the road) emotionally lash out. My character isn't underage, but she is lalafell, and this issue kept being brought up. The lack of distinction in some people's mind between "lalafell" and "child" is not lost on me. There are details within Kino's backstory that, according to multiple people in this thread, would cause them to raise their eyebrows. However, these details are intrinsic to her character, comparable to the details in Momodi's mail-quest. Ick, ew, how could I? I'm not a very public RPer. I mean, I use /say, /em, yada yada but I keep my general story and my characters within a fairly closed circle. As far as I know no one I've ever RP'd with has been made uncomfortable by either her backstory or her partners (while she was actively dating). But even if they were, I'd say "sorry, find another person to RP with, or another world to RP in, because them's the facts." I don't go out of my way to throw myself at people, or act lewd, or anything even close to resembling that. These type of relationships are not unheard of or uncommon within the world. The game itself presents these relationship as not-so-eyebrow-raising. If I were allowed to use XI as evidence, I'd point out the Valentione's day event, which... if I'm remembering correctly, paired up a male hume with a female tarutaru at least once. Moving onto purely age, IC, there's a soft line that's mostly completely dissolved by age 18. barring that, my personal opinion is that as long as they're close-ish in age and the relationship is believable and not obviously slapped together and duct-taped for fantasy fulfillment. Even then, I won't point them out publicly and say "wow, look at the freaks with their freaky freak fetish." I'll just choose not to RP with them, because, regardless of the relationship, that's just sloppy RP. Humans (and, I'm going to assume any humanoid fantasy creatures, in this case) are sexual beings before what is considered legal. The legality is determined locally by either common belief or what is determined to be "old enough" to deal with the consequences. In real life, I was (E)RPing at 15 and I'd be the first to assure everyone that it was awkward and hack-neyed as hell. In character, I'm fine with those themes of awkwardness being explored by other people, because it's a genuinely funny (in retrospect) aspect of the human(oid) condition. tl;dr: Remember, the golden rule of RP is and always will be consent. Those who break it will continue to do so. No need to bring personal kinks into it.

I agree that underage sex RP is bad bad bad. So long as no one tries to stop my 20-something lalafell from dating her 20-something lalafell boyfriend because they make her "uncomfortable," I'm fine. 'Cause I really would not be cool with being community-policed away from doing something that is totally and well within the possibilities of the world.

My FC has taken to announcing posts with an unobtrusive heart in our OoC linkshell or party chat to announce long posts that may be blocked. Kinono Kino [super long post]. [2]Kinono Kino: <3! If after multiple tries, we can't get it through, we send it as an out of game message, or take a screenshot.