Is it still racism if my highlander hates most midlander men? Or is that just sexism now?
But yeah. Racism is a thing. Eorzea doesn't like interracial couples. The couple in the Wanderer's Palace (Hard) quest, a highlander and a Miqo'te if my memory servers me well, is an example from it (even if people like to believe somehow that it's because of them being gay. That's very dumb, because guess what? Being gay is okay in Eorzea. But that's another topic, so I will drop it here). Hilda is an example of it. Those couples, and their offspring if possible, is not an expectable thing in most societies.
Things may be different in the bigger cities though we know the Ul'dah alchemist class trainer who is a hyur who was with a miqo'te and no one seemed to care. But in Ishgard for example, it's not. Unless Aymeric also magically fixed the racism there. Just like, you know, fixing the whole dragonsong war and people being okay with dragons in a few months. But whatever. In any case, Hilda's mother did get banished to a shitty life in the Brume together with her half-elezen/half-midlander daughter.
I've roleplayed a xenophobic character, who would fling insults at your character for being anything but an Ishgardian Elezen. She knew racist comments were the easiest way to piss 'outsiders' off. The thing is though, I didn't roleplay her outright as just going off on people, but she'd made snide comments, and see if people took the bait (aka highlander drops something "lol highlanders and their big clumsy hands, not surprised" type of deal). She loved riling people up. If people were getting offended at me OOC due to that? Well fuck them sideways. Not like I'd to RP with people who blur IC and OOC. She was an amazing tool to check people's capability of keeping that divide.
Honestly having been there with keeping my elezen's relationship a secret from everyone and everything for months on end at first? It was super fun to roleplay. But in the end, when the whole stuff did come out? She ended up being fired, disowned, all her Ishgardian friends dropped her ect. Because I wanted consequences for being with a non-elezen. Sort of funny as well, she deserved it after being such a xenophobic shit.
Even despite roleplaying another character these days who doesn't care if you fuck another race, she'd still tell you your fucking stupid for willingly having a baby with another race due the banishing that child to an awful life. Like she's fine if you're willing to deal with the hatred you and your partner get for being an couple in the open. That's a burden they have to carry due to their own choices. She isn't okay with condemning your own child to it.
Anyhow, I hope my rambling helped.
But yeah. Racism is a thing. Eorzea doesn't like interracial couples. The couple in the Wanderer's Palace (Hard) quest, a highlander and a Miqo'te if my memory servers me well, is an example from it (even if people like to believe somehow that it's because of them being gay. That's very dumb, because guess what? Being gay is okay in Eorzea. But that's another topic, so I will drop it here). Hilda is an example of it. Those couples, and their offspring if possible, is not an expectable thing in most societies.
Things may be different in the bigger cities though we know the Ul'dah alchemist class trainer who is a hyur who was with a miqo'te and no one seemed to care. But in Ishgard for example, it's not. Unless Aymeric also magically fixed the racism there. Just like, you know, fixing the whole dragonsong war and people being okay with dragons in a few months. But whatever. In any case, Hilda's mother did get banished to a shitty life in the Brume together with her half-elezen/half-midlander daughter.
I've roleplayed a xenophobic character, who would fling insults at your character for being anything but an Ishgardian Elezen. She knew racist comments were the easiest way to piss 'outsiders' off. The thing is though, I didn't roleplay her outright as just going off on people, but she'd made snide comments, and see if people took the bait (aka highlander drops something "lol highlanders and their big clumsy hands, not surprised" type of deal). She loved riling people up. If people were getting offended at me OOC due to that? Well fuck them sideways. Not like I'd to RP with people who blur IC and OOC. She was an amazing tool to check people's capability of keeping that divide.
Honestly having been there with keeping my elezen's relationship a secret from everyone and everything for months on end at first? It was super fun to roleplay. But in the end, when the whole stuff did come out? She ended up being fired, disowned, all her Ishgardian friends dropped her ect. Because I wanted consequences for being with a non-elezen. Sort of funny as well, she deserved it after being such a xenophobic shit.
Even despite roleplaying another character these days who doesn't care if you fuck another race, she'd still tell you your fucking stupid for willingly having a baby with another race due the banishing that child to an awful life. Like she's fine if you're willing to deal with the hatred you and your partner get for being an couple in the open. That's a burden they have to carry due to their own choices. She isn't okay with condemning your own child to it.
Anyhow, I hope my rambling helped.
