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I believe the question is coming from the viewpoint of much more organic? relationship building. Tell me if that's wrong?
There's a few of us who roleplay without the foremost intentions of starting romance but wanting that to come out in however way it does. For those who do, putting in "Prefers x race/lesbian/looking for female miqo'te" is a question of why. Yes it's nice to know if someone / their character is not discriminatory but there are some who wonder "why does it matter?"
Does that mean players need to say they are x-friendly? For some, it's a wondering of whether or not it is redundant. It rings to me of those threads where before someone may post a topic of "I'm looking to start a romance. Looking for female lalafell or ___." There were a few responses of "why not search through roleplay?"
I mean, most of the wikis have characters and interested in / sexual tension etc because they've built that out through roleplay. (stares at two highlanders who used to be at each others' throats)
I don't think it's a question of right or wrong, but trying to understand a different point of view.
Edit: Was typing this through a dungeon run so it got out of hand during then. Whatever.
Kage himself leans much more towards being pansexual than the other parts of alphabet soup. He doesn't care whether or not someone is a certain gender or sexuality. One of his very first friends is a male Seeker who (over a year now) has been in love with and has since bonded with another male miqo'te. During that year, the miqo'te spent time trying to rebuild his tribe with even other female miqo'te in a Seeker-like fashion but with romantic intentions (so much more bisexual tagged along with the Seeker tribal relations). ... In fact this same Seeker sometimes makes the implications that he would court Kage but since Kage is more into monogamous relationships, Kage would consider himself hurting his friends if this were even true.
Kage himself has been in a.. sort of threesome sexual relationship. It didn't turn out all that great for him in the end because it was more of the sexual and less of the romantic on one side. Also, he was a miqo'te at the time. He's seen more derogatory remarks towards Seeker tribal relationships etc than he has towards actual male/male female/female relationships.
It is not an attack on the RP, please stop taking things as insults or offensive statements as they are not. Get that chip off your shoulder, seriously. It's a curious desire from some to want to understand. Plenty of people I know do romance RP and never once step foot into ERP. I think it is perhaps an artifact of the romantic hopes that one will just "find" true love instead of going on an online dating site. Some don't understand that and wanted to ask.
Edit2: And I don't even care if people do ERP. All the time or just a little. It's not even a stigma against that.
There's a few of us who roleplay without the foremost intentions of starting romance but wanting that to come out in however way it does. For those who do, putting in "Prefers x race/lesbian/looking for female miqo'te" is a question of why. Yes it's nice to know if someone / their character is not discriminatory but there are some who wonder "why does it matter?"
Does that mean players need to say they are x-friendly? For some, it's a wondering of whether or not it is redundant. It rings to me of those threads where before someone may post a topic of "I'm looking to start a romance. Looking for female lalafell or ___." There were a few responses of "why not search through roleplay?"
I mean, most of the wikis have characters and interested in / sexual tension etc because they've built that out through roleplay. (stares at two highlanders who used to be at each others' throats)
I don't think it's a question of right or wrong, but trying to understand a different point of view.
Edit: Was typing this through a dungeon run so it got out of hand during then. Whatever.
Kage himself leans much more towards being pansexual than the other parts of alphabet soup. He doesn't care whether or not someone is a certain gender or sexuality. One of his very first friends is a male Seeker who (over a year now) has been in love with and has since bonded with another male miqo'te. During that year, the miqo'te spent time trying to rebuild his tribe with even other female miqo'te in a Seeker-like fashion but with romantic intentions (so much more bisexual tagged along with the Seeker tribal relations). ... In fact this same Seeker sometimes makes the implications that he would court Kage but since Kage is more into monogamous relationships, Kage would consider himself hurting his friends if this were even true.
Kage himself has been in a.. sort of threesome sexual relationship. It didn't turn out all that great for him in the end because it was more of the sexual and less of the romantic on one side. Also, he was a miqo'te at the time. He's seen more derogatory remarks towards Seeker tribal relationships etc than he has towards actual male/male female/female relationships.
It is not an attack on the RP, please stop taking things as insults or offensive statements as they are not. Get that chip off your shoulder, seriously. It's a curious desire from some to want to understand. Plenty of people I know do romance RP and never once step foot into ERP. I think it is perhaps an artifact of the romantic hopes that one will just "find" true love instead of going on an online dating site. Some don't understand that and wanted to ask.
Edit2: And I don't even care if people do ERP. All the time or just a little. It's not even a stigma against that.