(08-07-2014, 03:45 PM)Zhavi Wrote:(08-06-2014, 04:54 PM)Enteris Wrote: Well, they're human-like to a degree... so humans with tails. We have a tail bone and there are humans out there that have tails (think stubs, not actually full-length miqo'te type tails). Some of them are able to wag it a bit, but that's really about it. Others don't have control at all. So, from the human example we know we can possibly wag a tail if we had it.
Humm, I think this might just be a divide of opinion. Â To me, miqo'te are neither humans-with-tails nor cats-with-people-biology. Â They're an intertwined mix of both in a way that are neither cat nor human. Â I agree that they take traits from both -- you'd rightly think me stupid if I tried to argue against that -- but to simply think them humans with cat ears and tails takes away from the blurbs you can read in character creation. Â Their biology has to be different from human biology, otherwise they wouldn't have superb olfactory senses or strong leg musculature.
I don't have a great deal to offer this discussion. I have neither a cat (more of a dog person) nor a terribly developed miqo'te (but I've got three less-than-developed alts), but I do think that it's important to note that all the playable races are referred to as "Man," as in human. I assume that's part of the reason the devs call the most human-seeming characters hyur, so that we can all be "human" by implication.Â
At least according to the way the NPCs in the MSQ and others talk, the beastmen are one thing and the "civilized" races are another (and I do mean biologically, not just for purposes of discrimination; Y'shtola repeatedly blames "men" for the retaliatory violence of the kobolds and sylphs). Although we haven't seen them to my knowledge, the devs have confirmed that interbreeding between the playable races is viable, so it stands to reason that biologically (not culturally!) miqo'te are more similar to hyur, lalafell, roegadyn, and elezen (that is to say, "humans") than they are different.
But I love creative emoting, so swish those tails! Swish away!
