(11-10-2016, 12:32 PM)insertWINhere Wrote: So I've been looking around, and either I suck at searching (A very real possiblity) or it just hasn't been looked at recently.
Anyhow.. Miqo'te physiology! They're obviously cat people, and kudos to the devs for making their socity kinda cat like. But I'm more interrested in how much they are physically like cats. They have fangs, ears, and tails, but how much else are they like the adorable little furballs we know?
Sooo..
Balances, reflexes, and stamina seems to be well established but how much more?
Sleep? Do they need to sleep 16 hours per day?
Purring is that something that's a possiblity.
Pheromones? Do males, well and females, feel a need to spread their scent perhaps with rubbing or maybe even urine?
Increased ability to smell?
Hissing?
Tail movement based on mood?
Basically what things are established in lore, or do you do personally if you play one? I'm always looking for ways to make rp more fun, and something like an irresistible urge to rubs ones face on new things could be a way to do that. Or a trader that simply doesn't do as well as the others because he has to sleep twice as much as his competition.
My Miqo'te headcanon always leans towards the cat-like side of things. Â They aren't like beast tribes but they are closer than midlanders, for example.
From what I understand, Miqo'te are deceptively strong for their size, especially in the legs. Â While they don't jump or run any faster than any other race in-game, that's how I role play them. Â In a 1.0 cut scene, the Miqo'te character F'lhaminn climbed 25 to 30 feet in a couple of leaps.
Some Miqo'te are diurnal and nocturnal but I don't know how much of the time they sleep. Â I'm sure it varies but I doubt it's anything like 16 hours. Â Hard to be an adventurer like that.
My Miqo'te can purr but I'm sure that's something they only do with intimate partners.
There's nothing in the game to support pheromones that I know of. Â I think that scent marking makes them too animalistic.
My Miqo'te can see and hear better than Hyur, especially in the dark. Â And they have a stronger sense of smell. Â My Miqo'te react in various ways to things like catnip and other strong smells. Â For example, my character claims that Au Ra always smell unpleasantly like dirt. Â I don't know if that's true but that's what she claims.
Hissing, growling, roaring, and meowing are all things I've seen in flavor text for Miqo'te. Â But that's all dependent on the kind of culture they grew up in. Â It's possible that tribal Miqo'te have more of these features as part of their culture whereas city Miqo'te do not.
The lore book mentions how some Miqo'te can communicate by making clicking sounds much like how house cats can chitter. Â It's part of the lore that the Miqo'te have verbal sounds that Hyur aren't able to recreate.
Most Miqo'te that I've RP'd with tend to add content about tail and ear movement. Â I certainly do. A cats tail and ears are very expressive and I don't doubt that's the same for Miqo'te. Â This is supported by some of their emotes.
In my headcanon, Miqo'te are notoriously bad or notoriously great poker players because they either cannot consciously control their ears and tails OR they can do so, making them excellent at bluffing.
But if you search enough - there's gargantuan levels of information here. Â Here's a forum post I think you might really enjoy - it goes on for years.
Miqo'te Mating Strategies Explored - A Biologists Point of View
Carne armum ergo sum.
