You just have to see how everyday, mild racism and sexism today IRL is a serious issue. Especially the one that is not necessarily done out of malice, but just conventions, traditions, fucked up jokes, etc.
General rule of thumbs is, if the racial slur or witty remark sounds out of place, or rubbish, just don't. Wait for the proper moment. Or you'll end up failing at being witty, which is usually... not very good for self esteem and image, unless that's what you are aiming for (looking stupid ICly).
It gets especially more interesting when it's about friends that still are well.. part of the race or culture your character despises. It's always a duality where the character is trying to concile their friendship and feelings with what their deeply rooted upbringing tells them it's not right. It often can end up in very clumsy, rude remarks that are not necessarily meant as such (especially if your character happens to be a tsundere, or even a blunt, not very bright person...).
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My character has her load of prejudices. She tends to act in a "no fucks given" way, but she's not overtly aggressive or abrasive by nature. She tends to shrug things off even in spite of her actually caring, which is something that tends to limit the amount of prejudiced slurs she can spit. However when she does that would often translate into mild snarky snipes, or rather mean attacks that she tends to hide or minimize under a lighter, indifferent tone.
While she's subject to prejudices like a lot of her fellow eorzeans, she is not stupid either and tends to unconsciously separate friends and good contacts with 'the rest of the barrel'. Once the person is friends with her, or cool enough to her eyes, she tends to magically forget their origins, and when she does remember, she shrugs it off and thinks "they are actually ok for a Mighan/Seeker/whatever". Overall, she has troubles conciliating the individual with the whole group most of the time. She's usually not ready to be a prejudiced ass with a complete stranger unless they give her (the smallest) reason to. That would mean otherwise for her to lose her 'edge'. Wouldn't look cool and all.
She holds prejudices against Mighans for mostly two reasons: the first one being her gridanian upbringing that told her that Mighans are by definition power hungry savages and barbarians that tried to invade once, and the second being a more rational one in the sense that she rather dislikes hypocrisy and she thinks them to be among the biggest hypocrites (invading warmongers that get to whine and complain when they get invaded by a bigger fish, which is a source of constant irony to her eyes).
All in all though, this is rather mild when compared to her serious disgust for Seekers that she (more or less) rationally compares to Coeurclaws, a taint that most Gridanians and especially common Keepers tend to see as an abomination (for different reasons for Keepers than gridanian Wildwoods). That can make her to actually more actively seek to send snipes directed at those, especially when she doesn't really like the individual in question. If a male Seeker exhibits the slightest macho behavior, shows off, or just thinks himself to be the 'equal' of a female Keeper, she can suddenly turn into a nasty ball of resentful prejudices yes, since she can be rather temperamental when things pierce through her external shell.
(12-21-2016, 03:33 PM)Terrin Wrote: I really appreciate that you see why I was concerned about how to play this.
I'm trying to find a nice balance between brutish and intellectual at this point, and I'll definitely need to think on how she'd approach a situation of a friend being pro-Resistance. I also agree on that I was trying too hard to make her prejudice clear, which just made it end up coming out very hollow and almost nonsensical in a way. I think I also need to try to work on the proper escalation as well, between how she'd act in a casual situation vs a bitter fight.
General rule of thumbs is, if the racial slur or witty remark sounds out of place, or rubbish, just don't. Wait for the proper moment. Or you'll end up failing at being witty, which is usually... not very good for self esteem and image, unless that's what you are aiming for (looking stupid ICly).
It gets especially more interesting when it's about friends that still are well.. part of the race or culture your character despises. It's always a duality where the character is trying to concile their friendship and feelings with what their deeply rooted upbringing tells them it's not right. It often can end up in very clumsy, rude remarks that are not necessarily meant as such (especially if your character happens to be a tsundere, or even a blunt, not very bright person...).
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My character has her load of prejudices. She tends to act in a "no fucks given" way, but she's not overtly aggressive or abrasive by nature. She tends to shrug things off even in spite of her actually caring, which is something that tends to limit the amount of prejudiced slurs she can spit. However when she does that would often translate into mild snarky snipes, or rather mean attacks that she tends to hide or minimize under a lighter, indifferent tone.
While she's subject to prejudices like a lot of her fellow eorzeans, she is not stupid either and tends to unconsciously separate friends and good contacts with 'the rest of the barrel'. Once the person is friends with her, or cool enough to her eyes, she tends to magically forget their origins, and when she does remember, she shrugs it off and thinks "they are actually ok for a Mighan/Seeker/whatever". Overall, she has troubles conciliating the individual with the whole group most of the time. She's usually not ready to be a prejudiced ass with a complete stranger unless they give her (the smallest) reason to. That would mean otherwise for her to lose her 'edge'. Wouldn't look cool and all.
She holds prejudices against Mighans for mostly two reasons: the first one being her gridanian upbringing that told her that Mighans are by definition power hungry savages and barbarians that tried to invade once, and the second being a more rational one in the sense that she rather dislikes hypocrisy and she thinks them to be among the biggest hypocrites (invading warmongers that get to whine and complain when they get invaded by a bigger fish, which is a source of constant irony to her eyes).
All in all though, this is rather mild when compared to her serious disgust for Seekers that she (more or less) rationally compares to Coeurclaws, a taint that most Gridanians and especially common Keepers tend to see as an abomination (for different reasons for Keepers than gridanian Wildwoods). That can make her to actually more actively seek to send snipes directed at those, especially when she doesn't really like the individual in question. If a male Seeker exhibits the slightest macho behavior, shows off, or just thinks himself to be the 'equal' of a female Keeper, she can suddenly turn into a nasty ball of resentful prejudices yes, since she can be rather temperamental when things pierce through her external shell.
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