RPC has moved! These pages have been kept for historical purposes

Caspar · **12-21-2016, 02:53 AM**

(12-21-2016, 02:33 AM)Verad Wrote: You want to go for an intellectual hatred rather than a visceral one. Mean remarks aren't going to do that.

Condescend. Act like their superior in every possible way, but be polite about it because you know they can't help themselves. Find pseudo-scientific reasons that they've failed, and as a nation they've failed quite a bit. Somebody with the Encyclopedia can summarize the bullet points there.

This allows you to make a patronizing character who thinks, perhaps even quite reasonably in their view, that if only the Ala Mhigans behaved differently they'd be more successful. It's probably not a hatred that's going to come up much in the way you've presented it in your provided examples, but will be seen as more insidious by many.

I really like this approach.
A lot of my NPCs have some kind of unspoken prejudice that shows itself in the way they smile stiffly or avoid shaking hands with you, or casually make seemingly innocuous assumptions about your finances or interests based on your heritage. In that sense my PC is pretty unusual in that she is one of the few characters I play who is only ever unintentionally culturally insensitive.

The way I see it, with a powerful foe bearing down on Eorzea, internal showings of open racism would become less prevalent as there is a huge target of hate to replace them. But assumptions and systemic discrimination would probably continue unabated. Public violence and slur flinging really don't show up that much in the MSQ IIRC. For instance a lot of folks confuse Ul'dahn classism and Ishgardian xenophobia for racism. While these things often go hand in hand, they are still distinct and one doesn't necessarily imply the others within this specific setting.

The Proper way to Hate

RPC has moved! These pages have been kept for historical purposes