Abbie

[align=center]«Ｈａｒｔｈｅｓｔ Ｃａｌｌ» [/align] [align=center][/align] [align=center]Trade & Business ∘ Morally Grey ∘ Crime ∘ Dark[/align] [align=center]Welcome to Harthest Call Trading Company; heavy character-driven rp FC on Balmung [/align] [align=center][/align] [align=center]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/1LiW2cs6suT06qw40NiwppYlHaPZONB_9CqMFtYf6Yh7ZIqGiP7oUNSSZusrZyLg42vNcqp_PZ-knUzhe_QwhiTil6Z35v7Ux_FYGlLOlbe08y6oLLZAeKJunLPFmU_xEYz7Hdgg[/img] [/align] [align=center] Specializing in the acquisition, transportation, and protection of absolutely anything for the right price, Harthest prides itself in our ability to obtain whatever it is our clients have their heart sought after. While much of our work does not strictly operate under what would be considered 'good legal standing', we certainly have the paperwork to prove that we are a fine and upstanding business. We can certify that our organization is one of prestige and quite valid! Whether your aim in joining our fine company is to aid in the acquisition of pesky to gather items, the conduct of research, work with the trade and business side of things, or something more sinister, we welcome your interest! Harthest may keep its secrets close, but we are more than willing to offer aid with very few questions asked. Contact us with details to receive an estimated quote. [align=left]◎Acquisition & Retrieval ◎Discrete Transportation ◎Protection & Guarding ◎Information Brokerage ◎Mercenary Work ◎Rare Plants & Poisons ◎Alchemic Materials ◎Narcotics, Stimulants, Drugs ◎Other Unsavory Favours & Services[/align] [align=left]We possess a number of Offices across the city-states and have recently reached out past Eorzea, looking to Gyr Abania and off to the East. We are eager to hear from you always! [/align] [align=left]Harthest Call is a Trading Company based around trade over land, sky and sea. Our most important focus centers on our work, with events focused on smuggling, escorting, and perilous transport of frequently varying legalities. We run a business, afterall, and as characters we need to make a living and are looking to earn money. [/align] There will be fighting, there will be precarious situations which delve into the more fantastic, though someone looking to save all of Eorzea or reenact the MSQ and fight the Big Bad might seek elsewhere. Overall we are not here for the good of Eorzea or redemption of the downtrodden - we’re in it for gil, the trade and ultimately ourselves - whatever that means to every individual person. [align=left] [/align] [align=left]We are a group of friends aiming to create a close-knit community of people who socialize, roleplay, and all around enjoy experiencing the game together. Most of our roleplay edges on darker, as does the nature of our FC, so conflict can be expected to happen between characters and when moralities of one or another may be tested - which we consider a good thing! Conflict, after all, is what helps our characters grow and change. [/align] [align=left]Ultimately, we’re striving to maintain an atmosphere that allows for this more mature rp with a heavy focus on character-driven plots, as well as frequent events that allows for us to expand on what characters and storylines we have! Our hope is to create an environment that's open, friendly, and avoids leaving everyone to operate in their own separate rp bubble. One that is free of discomfort, where a problem can be openly brought up when it arises, and which is drama free. [/align] [align=left]Overall, the group is flatly morally grey with many darker themes running through everything. Regardless, characters of any alignment are accepted and encouraged. With that, there is bound to be IC conflict, and situations that might delve into the ambiguous. With warehouses settled across Eorzea, and soon Gyr Abania and Yanxia, the company stocks include a bounty of unexpected items that all need to be sold, moved around, or shuffled off for the price of gil or more good working hands. [/align] [align=left]Whether your character is antagonistic, drawn to things of a seedier-nature or noble-minded we may have a place for you here. [/align] [/align]

I. Basic Info Characters:Abeodan Silverbrand and Veil Iriq Primary character:Abbie! Linkshells:None yet Primary RP linkshell:None yet II. RP Style Amount of RP (light, medium, heavy): Style Wise, I'm a heavy rper - long posts, lots of text (though that can flux based on my partner). I used to forum rp with a few friends upwards of 5000 words. That's certainly cut down by quite a bit, now! (its more like 200), but the habit sticks around. Amount wise, right now I don't rp very often, because I don't know many people and I'm not always home. But I'd like to take that up to medium! Views on RP combat and injuries: I really enjoy gore, for starters. So I really enjoy combat and injuries. I'm okay with things like trust rp and just going with the flow, but I also time to time enjoy rolling, just for the random addition of chance that gets put into it. I don't like the idea of perma character death without it being extensively thought out beforehand and written well, because I always believe in an end to a story, but permanent maiming and disfigurements are right up my ally. Though of course, always ask first, as I will you. Views on IC romance: OOC I'm shit at romance, and that bleeds over pretty heavily into the IC just because I can't even pretend to understand what I'm doing, or how things work. I've been in romance plots before, but for simplicity's sake I tend to avoid them. Likewise, most of my characters are pretty hard to romance (though if you manage it, kudos!!). Views on non-romantic RP (family ties, etc): I really enjoy platonic drama. The way my characters are set up, anyone's bound to get more plot twists and dramatic gasps out of things like family member rp or old friends, and that's what I prefer, to love stuff. (Unless the person in question is like, an ex wife or estranged lover. In which case... sure bring it on) Views on lore: I really enjoy studying and sticking to the lore, but I also have a love of finding out ways to do new and interesting things while sticking to the lore. For example, one of my alts is a dragonfly (yes, the mob) in an elezen body. Another one is a small puddle of void goo in a 13 year old's form that was created when his barren mother went to the void to ask for a baby - essentially a changeling. I stick to the lore as much as possible and try to only gently make up new facts. Someone worded it once I think, "In Eorzea, as long as you have enough aether and believe really really hard, anything is possible". I really enjoy that. Views on chat functions (/say, /linkshell, etc): Most of my rp goes in /em. If it's dialogue, it goes like /em || "Text". I like it for continuity's sake. However, I have no issues rping just in /s or in /p or linkshells. Wherever works! [*] III. Other Info Country: US Timezone: EST Contact info: You can find me easiest at my xiv tumblr, XIVElliot, or on my personal, at lantern-k1ng. [*] [align=center][glow=blue]~Special announcements can be found in the posts below~[/glow][/align]

I've been playing a Xaela quite a bit since the patch, and... yeah I haven't really had this issue. There's a lot of lore we don't have, but likewise, there's a lot of lore for a /lot/ of races we don't have. We're missing a lot about Ala Mhigo, the Lalafell, the Miqo'te... I haven't really seen many other Xaela rpers out there (which is kinda fine and dandy because mine would be more like to avoid them, than anything else), so I can't speak for anyone else's interpretation of the race, but as far as lore wall's I've had no issues. The nomadic lifestyle and tribal information was more than enough for me to setup a personality I enjoy'd rping, and his travel to Eorzea was largely centered around both the destruction of large parts of Othard under Garlean rule, and voluntary separation from his family (which he angsts over night and day like the dumb, 50 year old baby that he is). My suggestion, like most other here, is maybe a revamp of the character. As a man who has no issue playing male or female characters, I don't really understand your statement of "female characters are difficult to play", but if you're having issues, try looking at her from a different light, or possibly switching things up a bit.

This. While we do have evidence of halfbreeds in game from a number of sources, I feel the biological difference between the playable races and the dravanians is just too extreme. Like how you can crossbreed a horse and a donkey, but not say a horse and a dog, irl. Any attempt at crossbreeding between the 'human' races and a dravanian would likely just end in either nothing, or too many physical and genetic issues for the offspring to survive, if it even makes it through the birth. I'm all for people doing what they want with lore, totally. Rp is something people do to enjoy and have fun with, and everyone should be allowed to rp what they want, so long as its not harming anyone else, which this certainly isn't. But playing a dravanian myself, a halfbreed dragon isn't something I would really want to meet icly, or interact with in roleplay.