Racial slurs?

[Meishali]

Hello, I'm Meishali, and welcome to "make politically incorrect threads TODAY".

 

I tried to look a bit into this but I didn't find much information + I am still new to the game so I am trying to avoid spoilers... So wiki research is a bit risky for me atm in general. 

I've done some people watching today and yesterday and I've seen several little comments on racial features (miqo'te ears, hyur's height compared to a lalafell's etc.). Some were taken as "cute titles" or gentle remarks, other were, in context, meant to be insults. 

 

Are there any in-lore known slurs? By that I mean... Like, actual quest givers of y race referring to x race in a rude/good manner using something other than the clan name or the race name. 

 

What is considered rude? What's not? Does it just depends on the characters way to take it? Maybe they don't really exist and what I read yesterday & today was a mirage?

 

Also, how often do races mix to do kids? What is usually the offspring like?

 

Enlighten me, veterans!

[Brynhilde]

The Midlanders insult the Highlanders by saying that their mothers were Sea Wolves.

[Domri Blackblade]

- Wildwoods are called "greens" by the Duskwights.

- Duskwights are called "greys", "duskies", or "dusties".

- Keepers are called "poachers" and "savages" (Ty, Knight Kat).

- Miqo'te are called "cats".

- Midlanders say to Highlanders things along the lines of, "Your mother is a roegadyn."

- Elezen are "knife-ears."

 

Some I know. Watch for edits as more pop up.

 

EDIT:

 

Beastmen:

 

- Sahagin: "Scalebacks"; "Fishbacks" (Gracias, Flynt bb)

- Kobolds: "Rats", "Mecky cave dogs" (Thanks Berrod!)

[Berrod Armstrong]

"Mecky cave dogs" for Kobolds as well.

[Domri Blackblade]

Also, to answer your other question about race mixing, I am under the impression that halfbreeds are a rarity and not something everyone would be used to seeing. It's also my understanding that even dating outside of your race is frowned upon in general through a quest , the name of which I cannot remember off of the top of my head.

 

I could be wrong though.

 

I know Domri as a character frowns upon it. (A bit hypocritically.)

[Brynhilde]

Also, to answer your other question about race mixing, I am under the impression that halfbreeds are a rarity and not something everyone would be used to seeing. It's also my understanding that even dating outside of your race is frowned upon in general through a quest , the name of which I cannot remember off of the top of my head.

 

I could be wrong though.

 

I know Domri as a character frowns upon it. (A bit hypocritically.)

 

The quest which unlocks Wanderer's Palace Hard features a gay couple - a Highlander man and a Miqo'te. Amusingly, the quest makes much of the prejudice the two have faced for being together, but stresses their racial difference over their shared gender.

[Virella]

Don´t know any slurs at the moment, but. Interracial relationships apparently force people to leave their birthplaces, so uh, I can answer you that at least! People are racist.

 

As for half-breeds? They are super rare due to this.

 

So uuuh. Yea. Prepare for lots of racism if you go for either of those two. Even more so then normal interaction between races. People will hate your guts.

[Domri Blackblade]

The quest which unlocks Wanderer's Palace Hard features a gay couple - a Highlander man and a Miqo'te. Amusingly, the quest makes much of the prejudice the two have faced for being together, but stresses their racial difference over their shared gender.

 

Yes, thank you! Virella was the one who actually enlightened me to this, too!

[Meishali]

Prepare for lots of racism if you go for either of those two. Even more so then normal interaction between races. People will hate your guts.

 

I'm merely thinking about how my character would react to such displays, I wouldn't dare launching myself in such things, I have too little knowledge for something more complicated than Lu rn. :')

 

Thank you for your super fast input everyone in any case!

[Virella]

Prepare for lots of racism if you go for either of those two. Even more so then normal interaction between races. People will hate your guts.

 

I'm merely thinking about how my character would react to such displays, I wouldn't dare launching myself in such things, I have too little knowledge for something more complicated than Lu rn. :')

 

Thank you for your super fast input everyone in any case!

 

Har har, hating on them is way much more fun in any case, I can tell you that with Virella here.

 

... she's absolute scum towards that interracial couple. But... it is really fun roleplay!

[Domri Blackblade]

I'm merely thinking about how my character would react to such displays, I wouldn't dare launching myself in such things, I have too little knowledge for something more complicated than Lu rn. :')

 

Thank you for your super fast input everyone in any case!

 

Glad to help!

(I also just discovered your art. Terrible artist, my butt.)

[Meishali]

Glad to help!

(I also just discovered your art. Terrible artist, my butt.)

 

I changed it just for you. Please appease the butt.

 

 

Har har, hating on them is way much more fun in any case, I can tell you that with Virella here.

 

... she's absolute scum towards that interracial couple. But... it is really fun roleplay!

 

Conflict makes RP in my opinion, so we're on the same wavelength! People agreeing on everything or goody two shoes aren't less worthy than any other type of character, but it's true that opinionated characters are much more down-to-earth and realistic in such settings.

[Virella]

Glad to help!

(I also just discovered your art. Terrible artist, my butt.)

 

I changed it just for you. Please appease the butt.

 

 

Har har, hating on them is way much more fun in any case, I can tell you that with Virella here.

 

... she's absolute scum towards that interracial couple. But... it is really fun roleplay!

 

Conflict makes RP in my opinion, so we're on the same wavelength! People agreeing on everything or goody two shoes aren't less worthy than any other type of character, but it's true that opinionated characters are much more down-to-earth and realistic in such settings.

 

Oh I quite agree with that! Racism is one of the major issues within Eorzea after all, and I love it when people include it into their roleplay. Some subtle jabs to straight out in your face racism, I love it all.

 

That's uuh... why I roleplay an Ishgardian for!

[Michikyou]

Have to remember - until the calamity (Dalamud thing) Most people lived away from large city centers to avoid racial tensions. Hyurs didnt like Elezen and vice versa, Miqo'te didn't trust anyone. Strife brought people together but still even then its just sort of.. 'tolerated'

 

'its this or death' essentially.

[Marisa]

This is more of a player-made thing than an actual in-world slur, but there's a fairly popular opinion that lalafells are overgrown popotos.

[Aldotsk]

Honestly, these aren't really in lore terms, but I've seen couple of RPers use these terms

 

Tree huggers

Sand lickers

Popotos - to Lalafells

Sea Swaggers

[Zelmanov]

How is this racism squared away with things such as say, the Miqo'te being the default "sexy" race? 

 

 

you have 3 miqo'te dancers in Ul'dah and races of all kinds drooling over them. Or how about the Miqo'te courtesan you escort to the Roegadyn in Costa Del Sol?

 

Is there a difference between say, "casual" relation versus actual "love"? Like, you can boink as many outside races as you wish, but you are settling down with someone of your own race!

[Kellach Woods]

you have 3 miqo'te dancers in Ul'dah and races of all kinds drooling over them. Or how about the Miqo'te courtesan you escort to the Roegadyn in Costa Del Sol?

 

Is there a difference between say, "casual" relation versus actual "love"? Like, you can boink as many outside races as you wish, but you are settling down with someone of your own race!

 

That sounds like it, yes.

 

Other races are for oglin' and bangin', not for livin'.

[MadWater]

I was under the impression half-breeds couldn't exist in this game, as in the races are genetically incapable of making children.

[Sounsyy]

Just wanted to pop in real quick and confirm that Cross-Race and Cross-Clan mating and children are canon lore. Though Fernehalwes said that these are rare and often face heavy amounts of social ostracism for mixing, because the Races all really hate each other. As was mentioned earlier in this thread, the Treasure Hunter couple from Wanderer's Palace HM were both thrown from their homes because they were in a mixed-race relationship (hyur and miqo'te).

 

Race Mixing | Clan Mixing

 

 

As for racial slurs, I think Domri already listed off all the ones I recalled on the first page. ^^

[Knight Kat]

I want to throw in "savage(s)" for Keepers of the Moon. One of the Elezen characters during the archery class quest-line uses it often when referring to them.

[X'zirashah Bakt]

Aside from the official sources, it's probably best to get creative. That's far more interesting, in my belief. Kimah has a thing for calling Miqo'te "sloppycat" or saying someone is one needle short of a Cactuar, to borrow off my southern upbringing.

[LystAP]

I wonder what slurs there will be for the Au Ra? 

 

"Dragon Bastards"?

"Walking Heresies"? :lol:

[Mercurias]

M'sato calls non-Miqo'te "Side-ears" when they talk about things he believes are nonsense. His ears are on the top of his head, not just beside the temples, and he finds the idea of non-mobile ears to be a horrifying way to live.

 

He has admitted that the side-ears are occasionally cute on the right person.

[Khadan]

Not that it's totally unrelated but I suspect, also, that there might be just as much-if-not-more slurs referencing one's allegiance or place of origin than just their race. Such as Lominsans not like Ul'Dahns etc.