(04-15-2015, 06:04 PM)Intaki Wrote:(04-15-2015, 05:43 PM)Flashhelix Wrote: I'm pretty sure that how Faye put it is quite possibly the most polite way anybody could. It's not believable. How is somebody supposed to put it? Because looking at a character concept that isn't very believable and going "That's not very believable" doesn't exactly constitute a personal attack or passive-aggressive jab at any group.Qualify "believable". Not "likely". Not "normal". "Believable". Define exactly what that term means in the context of roleplay in a fantasy setting.
Believable as in something that could plausibly occur. If I said my character was a lancer with two extra arms he'd grown with black magic and used them to fly by flapping them really hard, that's not believable. People assume, often in fantasy and sci-fi settings, that because the world differs from our own in many aspects that the concept of the setting actually having any sort of in-lore restrictions on anything whatsoever is just out the window. "Oh, we live in a world with dragons, elves, and sentient cacti! Why is X so implausible?" With X being something that is usually lore-breaking. "What do you mean my character can't chew and eat rocks with no negative repercussions? We live in a world with evil physical nature-gods! Who says teeth aren't harder than rocks in this universe?" Etc etc.
"Not very believable" is not synonymous with "Impossible". A Miqo'te dragoon is not very believable. A Miqo'te Azure Dragoon is impossible, at least until Heavensward retroactively makes me look like a huge asshole here by revealing that every one before Alberic and Estinien have been catboys for the last 300 years. If you write a character that's part of what is easily the most ridiculously xenophobic culture in a setting already filled with stupidly xenophobic cultures, then say that they are part of the class of knights that this xenophobic nation holds up as a symbol of national pride, then say that this knight is one of the many that said nation is prejudiced against, well... I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that that character is not very believable, not impossible, just not that believable.
And, while I'm at it, I might as well say that "Not very believable" isn't synonymous with "Total shit character get the fuck off my final fuccbois". It was made clear in the OP that the point was to discuss the reasoning behind such a thing, not the characters themselves. I assumed that would be the end of it, but then again that's probably naive of me considering how much easier it is to just take an expression of distaste towards any kind of concept that matches a character you play as a malicious personal attack.
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