(03-08-2016, 02:46 PM)Valence Wrote: Well that's exactly the thing that can make it interesting: not a dual education or anything silly like that, but a character that will have the opportunity or choice (or not) to go explore the other side of his/her legacy and bring some shenanigans in the process. Can be trite as hell, or rather nice if fleshed out properly. Or the character can just say fuck you to his/her upbringing and go to the other side he/she never knew. Or, the character can also be the direct target to mockery, bullying, whatever you fancy.
It's with that in mind that I think cross bred characters can have a justification to be played. If it's just "because rule of cool/edginess", well yeah... Of course.
I agree with everything you've said here. The realest challenge is trying to convince people that you're going to do the story justice, instead of doing what the strawmen and other contemporaries have done with the thing, which is usually "I thought it would be cool, but it has zero narrative impact on my character, I just thought being a half-vampire would be AWESOME."
Again as a concession, this is true for any "special" template someone adds to their character. We're a bunch of jaded motherfuckers who will still probably give benefit of the doubt, but I can speak with some small certainty more than a few people see special templates, roll their eyes, and then wait to see if the concept is worth their time. What a pessimistic view, I know, I know.
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