Jana

"Miqo'te being raised by Hyur" largely came about because RP characters were being made before official lore on naming conventions did (if I remember correctly, there weren't any official naming conventions until around 2.0 so every 1.0 character didn't benefit from them). There was also a long time between when lore conventions came out and the ability to purchase a name change came out. Then there's the fact that some people just don't want to/aren't able to afford one. "Airship Pirates" may not be something you wanted to do anymore but I'll toss in one more tidbit: The reason only Grand Companies had airships before was that Garleans would shoot them down on a regular basis during the 2.0 storyline. After Operation Archon, there aren't that many active AA guns or whatever they use (mortars like in Castrum Meridianum? those are ground attack...) so Free Companies have started getting them. It's a very recent thing though.

My character is supposed to be creepy and gloomy, but SE's character creator gave me a very cute kitty person. I usually try to throw in with emotes info like Jana's posture or sunken eyes (or on the more positive side, her toned muscles because Miqo'te don't get that slider).

The mannequin soldiers in Fractal don't have faces/hair because why give combat droids anything like personality or individualism? The Soldiery wing of the museum is all combat droids with no real faces (or biology); biological constructs like Ixalon (maintenance) and Nagas (experimentation) are in the second wing. The clones in the Coil storyline also serve a very different purpose from combat. I'm not exactly saying "don't do it," but I am saying consider the why Allagans would create something like what you want your character to be.

I can be there! It'll be kinda weird since both Jana and Khena will want to show up though.

Your character has a lot of parallels with mine, and some important differences too. I'll keep an eye peeled for you.

I dunno if this is meant to be taken seriously or not, but I do resent the assumption cross server that Balmung Babbies can't pull their weight.

It'll be a little weak but I'll go as Summoner so the Monk spot is open, sure!

I listed MNK because you said Undersized Party will be used in the first post, and it's my only level 60 class right now. If I misread, I'm happy to go as another class.

About to make a dirty joke, probably.

Jana is a Summoner IC who is missing a few primal kills. I'd love to have her come; if you're going in unsynced then I can show up as a level 60 MNK. Also I will need to clear a LS spot tonight.

I like Azys La for field, Amdapor Keep NM for dungeon intro, and Bismark for trials. T9 for best boss music I guess, I just like the coil songs for general-combat themes.

Yay, someone else who voted for 3! It'd be perfect for Jana, even though it stands no chance of winning against the side-tail styles. ;w; For males I just voted for the Pomp. I don't care for anything else.

Ishgard is not Japan. There are plenty of Hyur in the country that aren't lowborn. They are still nobles, even if they're just not heads of the four main houses. The sidequests in there imply you can become a noble by slaying an important enough dragon (which is what a lot of the knights/"plain dragoons" are trying to do in W. Coerthas).

If John ends up trying to do what Jana is essentially halfway through accomplishing... There will be much bullying!

Somewhat related to a few points on the first page of the thread, I do plan out sad stories sometimes but I never set anything in stone. I had planned to kill off my (villainous) RP character on Tera when it became obvious that FFXIV would be my new full-time place to RP, but enough of the friends and contacts she made intervened so I let her retire peacefully. I don't want to, as the OP put it, waste the efforts of those I'm RPing with, so I never let my intended conclusion be unchangable.

In terms of spellcasting, the weapons each of those classes uses are made of certain materials because they conduct the aether for their magic better. THM uses bone/precious metal staves and scepters that incorporate a jewel into the head, CNJ uses a wooden staff or cane, and ACN books are made of all sorts of materials but with very specific types of inks, mixed with precious metals and blood. While some spells can be cast cross-class, they are generally weaker as a result from both a game play and in-world perspective. There is a bit of lore behind each one, but it's fairly open ended. (For example, I had Jana use a ritual dagger with a gold hilt encasing a ruby for a specific RP scene where she used some THM and ACN aether manipulation.) If you wanted to have a THM character accidentally infuse a weapon with aether, it might work better with an ornate sword than with a mostly-wood spear, for example.

Jana is The Worst Monk because she can't do something as simple as meditate.

Jana matched with the monks by coincidence, yay!

(Sign ups are kinda slow even though it's the weekend... If there are no other takers, I'll put Jana up for 5.)

Party chat or tells, even in the middle of the Quicksand, have been used for private RP since there was RP in the game. If people wanna RP in /say and get pissy when people enter their range and reply, they should have considered it beforehand.

There's all sorts of adventurers, fighters, merchants, and potatoes on Balmung if you wanna do more open-world RP (I'm recalling that Gilgamesh has more RP in individual FCs but I may be wrong). I'm in a closed OOC FC but there are many linkshells for RPers to connect with on Balmung as well. The only problem is getting onto the server; you either need to make your character right before/after a maintenance or pay $18 to transfer from another.

Sign Khena up for event 4 please! That area and situation both hold personal significance to her (and Jana).

I don't evaluate my roleplay, other people do it for me. If they had fun, then that's a success.

I know you can usually bust out a LB on the first boss if you have enough charge (and even the second if you think you can build up enough before the final one), but I usually see people saving for dropping a two on the last boss as well. It's usually for melee DPS to pop, but I've seen my fair share of casters (and now BRDs and MCHs) that will "steal the glory" and pop it if the melee isn't doing it fast enough for their tastes. Or they just want to see their LB. I dunno. Building the LB bar depends on the group's iLv tii, it goes slower the better your gear us. So the only place I get mad about an aoe one being used over my melee one one is on the second boss of Neverreap... There are a few groups now who will prefer for a caster/ranged LB1 on a big trash pull instead since bosses should die just fine without it.