(08-05-2014, 07:01 PM)Knight Kat Wrote: Just wanted to add something.
This a quote from this site: http://www.ffxivinfo.com/races/miqote.php
"During the Age of Endless Frost, as the seas turned to ice and passage over them became possible, Eorzea saw an influx of foreign fauna to her shores. This in turn brought the hunting tribes which subsisted upon them, the modern descendants of whom are today known as the Miqo'te.
Since then, the Miqo'te have diverged into two physically distinguishable groups — the diurnal Seekers of the Sun and the nocturnal Keepers of the Moon. Both groups share a superb olfactory sense and powerful leg musculature, results of a long evolution geared towards hunting and predation.
Adaptation to a hunting lifestyle has fashioned them with a keen sense of smell, powerful legs, and a tail which provides them with exceptional balance. Miqo'te are known to be very territorial, and many individuals tend to lead solitary lifestyles, particularly males. The few Miqo'te who have made the transition to life in Eorzean society are predominantly female."
This information can also be clearly read in character creation, in-game.
Yup, that's what I follow. In order to avoid metagaming, I use Zhi's bad habits (notably the smoking and snorting things >>) to lessen impact during rp -- unless I'm rping with someone I know doesn't mind.
Being that they're cat people, I just quietly try not to think about the biology aspect. Except for the smell and strong legs (partially why I made her so adept at climbing) that the game mentions (and, since keepers are supposed to be nocturnal, I let her have great night vision), I rp Zhi as if she's just another person, with nothing else that screams 'cat'. It's one of those weird grey areas that will very probably never be resolved. My reaction to those tends to be to rp around them if I can at all help it. (unless we're talking setting, in which case I will forever mourn how incomplete Limsa feels and MAKE IT WORK, DAMMIT)
I have often thought about the tail and how someone born with a tail would use it. I will shamefully admit I forget to rp it as an extension of Zhi's body pretty often -- but I imagine if I had another extremity I would be using it when I talked and moved around; it wouldn't just hang about doing nothing. Now if only I wasn't so forgetful...
