I'll admit that when I got into FFXIV:ARR, I picked a catboy because they were cute. And I picked a Keeper because I like all things related to the moon or space. >.>;
It wasn't until after I made Nalin that I learned about the Miqo'te tribes, their way of naming and all that crazy lore. Which... Only served to excite me. As I really love working with established lore and all the research one has to do. It's really fun for me.
So while I'm still not quite set on Nalin's past(I've been retconning things since his creation), I do know for certain he has some strong Keeper roots. He wanders off for various periods of time without warning, he struggles to make friends and to keep those friends, he has some issues approaching people, he keeps all his problems and opinions mostly to himself. He's even submissive toward women when they take command or control of a situation; as his clan had established that women were the boss and the men of his clan were... More often than not, traded to other clans or were told they hold no place of power. (Just his clan, at least. I'm literally going by what little Keeper lore we have. Gotta dig hard for this stuff I swear.)
But at some point of his life, his clan was destroyed completely which flipped his world upside down, and he was taken in and raised by his dragoon mentor. Who, more-or-less, taught him how to behave more like a civilized person. Or at least, as much as a civilized person as he could get. Which is why he doesn't make weird faces at people getting married, why he kind've follows Halone and why he behaves a little more civil than a wild crazy purple lionman. Though... Those tendencies do get out from time to time.
And his name was given to him by his step-father; he had a Keeper name prior to the adoption, but he refuses to be called by it because... Well he's also a momma's boy and hearing his mother's name over and over kind've upsets him. So he just took on a new name to avoid the sad feels.
So he's a mixture of both civil cat and wild cat, I guess. And he never thinks too much about the subject because he's too busy distracting himself with other things. He doesn't like to think about his clan or ponder his place in the Miqo'te world or the Eorzean world. All he wants to think about is protecting what little he has left in his life and that works for him. I'm sure that once he's done running from his problems he'll eventually start to think about this more, but for now all he wants to do is stab dragons and keep his "new clan" safe, no matter the cost.
Basically I took what I had made(A Keeper Catboy Dragoon) and tried to make it work with the itty bit of established lore I had. It's a bit of a bend and stretch but it feels like, to me, it works. So I keep rolling with it! XD
It wasn't until after I made Nalin that I learned about the Miqo'te tribes, their way of naming and all that crazy lore. Which... Only served to excite me. As I really love working with established lore and all the research one has to do. It's really fun for me.
So while I'm still not quite set on Nalin's past(I've been retconning things since his creation), I do know for certain he has some strong Keeper roots. He wanders off for various periods of time without warning, he struggles to make friends and to keep those friends, he has some issues approaching people, he keeps all his problems and opinions mostly to himself. He's even submissive toward women when they take command or control of a situation; as his clan had established that women were the boss and the men of his clan were... More often than not, traded to other clans or were told they hold no place of power. (Just his clan, at least. I'm literally going by what little Keeper lore we have. Gotta dig hard for this stuff I swear.)
But at some point of his life, his clan was destroyed completely which flipped his world upside down, and he was taken in and raised by his dragoon mentor. Who, more-or-less, taught him how to behave more like a civilized person. Or at least, as much as a civilized person as he could get. Which is why he doesn't make weird faces at people getting married, why he kind've follows Halone and why he behaves a little more civil than a wild crazy purple lionman. Though... Those tendencies do get out from time to time.
And his name was given to him by his step-father; he had a Keeper name prior to the adoption, but he refuses to be called by it because... Well he's also a momma's boy and hearing his mother's name over and over kind've upsets him. So he just took on a new name to avoid the sad feels.
So he's a mixture of both civil cat and wild cat, I guess. And he never thinks too much about the subject because he's too busy distracting himself with other things. He doesn't like to think about his clan or ponder his place in the Miqo'te world or the Eorzean world. All he wants to think about is protecting what little he has left in his life and that works for him. I'm sure that once he's done running from his problems he'll eventually start to think about this more, but for now all he wants to do is stab dragons and keep his "new clan" safe, no matter the cost.
Basically I took what I had made(A Keeper Catboy Dragoon) and tried to make it work with the itty bit of established lore I had. It's a bit of a bend and stretch but it feels like, to me, it works. So I keep rolling with it! XD
