A pretty nice "excuse" to have a character filled with discriminative prejudice is to have lived a tribal life. I'm talking to you, fellow Miqo'tes and Au Ra. Look at how the PC gets treated when trying to cooperate with the U to beat Titan. You get glared and spat on just for not being one of them, and you have to great strides to get their trust, often given even reluctantly.
Why is Jet'a xenophobic? He has lived in a Keeper family without outside contacts for all his childhood, until said contacts did arrive, in the form of a rival band of Duskwights, who first raided his family's territory in the forest and then sold them off to Ul'dahn black marketeers. It all went downhill from there in terms of trusting others for my character. His family was also strictly religious, the Matriarch emphatizing several times to not trust the outsiders, those who are not part of the family (and among these there was a particular special distaste for Seekers because of their completely opposite social structure).
So there is an example of what induces prejudice. Even if there hadn't been that raid in their camp, the simple tribal life that they conducted, isolated by all what's different is a pretty solid enough reason to discriminate. The stranger must not be welcomed with open arms, cause he could bite.
This connects to my general complaint that there doesn't seem to be enough distrust in general, which I think is a sign of general OOC leak from the community to make bonds form as fast as possible between your character and someone else's. I've had RPers ICly approach me all too easily, all too openly, giving me information that I'd never give to someone I've met for the first time of my life. Do you really walk up to the drugstore and share half your infancy story or sexual life with the man behind the counter? Or with the guy reading the newspaper next to you as you wait for the bus? Maybe Forrest Gump would, but I want to think the average Joe would not.
But I have said this plenty of times already, and in the end repeating it won't solve the issue. It's just me muttering at a rather consistent part of my open RP that I am not too fond of, and sadly "going to RP somewhere else" will not fix it.
Why is Jet'a xenophobic? He has lived in a Keeper family without outside contacts for all his childhood, until said contacts did arrive, in the form of a rival band of Duskwights, who first raided his family's territory in the forest and then sold them off to Ul'dahn black marketeers. It all went downhill from there in terms of trusting others for my character. His family was also strictly religious, the Matriarch emphatizing several times to not trust the outsiders, those who are not part of the family (and among these there was a particular special distaste for Seekers because of their completely opposite social structure).
So there is an example of what induces prejudice. Even if there hadn't been that raid in their camp, the simple tribal life that they conducted, isolated by all what's different is a pretty solid enough reason to discriminate. The stranger must not be welcomed with open arms, cause he could bite.
This connects to my general complaint that there doesn't seem to be enough distrust in general, which I think is a sign of general OOC leak from the community to make bonds form as fast as possible between your character and someone else's. I've had RPers ICly approach me all too easily, all too openly, giving me information that I'd never give to someone I've met for the first time of my life. Do you really walk up to the drugstore and share half your infancy story or sexual life with the man behind the counter? Or with the guy reading the newspaper next to you as you wait for the bus? Maybe Forrest Gump would, but I want to think the average Joe would not.
But I have said this plenty of times already, and in the end repeating it won't solve the issue. It's just me muttering at a rather consistent part of my open RP that I am not too fond of, and sadly "going to RP somewhere else" will not fix it.
To be an interesting, intriguing, well-written character, there needs to be something to allow the audience to relate to them. That is what the problem is with who wants their character to be "perfect". Perfect characters will never be strong, and strong characters will never be perfect, because WE (those who read, who watch, who RP) are not perfect.
"What makes a strong character is how they deal with their flaws, their fears, their turmoils, their troubles that get in the way. That's what makes them relatable." -- N.C.
"What makes a strong character is how they deal with their flaws, their fears, their turmoils, their troubles that get in the way. That's what makes them relatable." -- N.C.
