(02-05-2014, 02:33 PM)Flickering Ember Wrote: I feel like it comes down to the type of RPer someone is. Are you the type of person who is "What you see is what you get"? Or are you the type of person who focuses on narrative and relies on emotes to overcome what is not physically there?
I think you can blend both perspectives.
Like Ildur, I fall into the camp of feeling that the PCs are a minority of the characters that exist. However, I also like to explain why that minority is structured the way it is. So, the approach I take is that miqo'te, and male miqo'te in particular, are indeed a fairly small percentage of the population of Eorzea (most of whom are "off-screen" for technical reasons). However, their high representation among PCs is because of the effects of the Calamity (lots of refugees) and, for Seekers, the desire of tia to prove themselves and grow in strength and experience to either acquire a new territory for their tribe or be tough enough to challenge their tribe's nunh and win. That's just the aggregate, however; individuals certainly have their own reasons, of course.
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