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Kilieit · **01-20-2017, 10:33 AM**

(01-20-2017, 09:52 AM)Virella Wrote:
(01-19-2017, 04:33 PM)Aya Wrote:
(01-18-2017, 04:42 AM)Virella Wrote: And Aya, I really thought she was a midlander all along, so there you go, the proof it doesn't always really work :P
Haha! Maybe it doesn't work in the sense that "not everyone will know about it" but it does work in the sense that you do not mind that interpretation, (I presume!) and should it come up importantly I could easily correct it, and should it come up in conversation Aya would just presume it was an unimportant mistake :)
I wouldn't say I mind it, but I do feel it is a poor choice onto representing your character as the race (or clan) they are meant to be. Especially because unlike all the other races, midlander and highlanders do look distinctly different in regard of frame of body they are given in game.

For me it is sticking a dog label onto a cat and then getting upset people see it as a cat and not a dog. Thankfully you don't seem to do that though, what I have to give you kudos for.

Anyhow, opinions differ after all, and well, at the end of the day, everyone's going to use whatever model, race, lore or whatever suits them best even if some might not agree with it. Some people will roll with it, others won't. As long people aren't mean about it OOC? Eh, who cares.

But I do feel, especially with the hyur clans, if you do the swap and try to represent the other clan, you should except some people will throw comments at your character or muck up their clan. Because well, a highlander doesn't look like a midlander and visa versa!

Highlander male faces that look under 40 when.

One of my alts is supposed to be a teenage highlander (or halflander, I'm not totally sold either way) boy... but I had to put him on the midlander model to make him give the right impression. Personally, I'd fantasia him into a highlander as soon as they added a face that looked even slightly like it belonged to a 19 year old. >_<

For now, while I'm forced by CC limitations into making compromises, it makes more IC sense for him to be mistaken for a midlander than it does for him to be mistaken for a middle-aged man. He's supposed to be tall, but baby-faced. And at least I can easily frame screenshots to make him look taller than he is - not so easy to use camera tricks to make the current M highlander faces look youthful.

I guess it's the same regarding OP's dilemma... if the Wildwood scar patterns are closer to the "first impression" you want to make with your character than the Duskwight skintones/etc, then it's an acceptable compromise IMO.

Using a different model in game vs roleplay

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