The Au-Ra immgration: How is your character taking it?

[Clover]

I'm not really engaging in casual RP, but if I were, I think Clover would stare at them wide eyed, and would take long moments to observe them. I don't think she'd fear them unless they gave her reasons to; she'd only be very, very curious. If given the chance, she'd ask many questions.

[Chill Man]

"Meh."

[Knight Kat]

"Meh."

 

This.

 

People were already abundantly playing Au Ra even before Heavensward was released. Having Kiht show some profound reaction to them is exhausting by now.

 

She doesn't know much about them, she doesn't encounter too many so she doesn't much care anymore. She's too busy to stop and throw racism at the horned-people. There are wars and instability everywhere, and she's got her crazy family and Clan to support.

[Blue]

Jet'a is pretty xenophobic. He is worried not only that they are going to impact the economy and steal all the work, but that they also might bring forth a new primal, so close do they resemble beastmen in his mind.

[Leomoon]

I haven't done any RP seeing as I just not but finished the story, I think Tana would really have no reaction other then wondering if there any good in a fight. Tana isn't much for race relations and more or less wonders about the strength behind someone will or punches.

[Saefinn]

What I was going to do was take a character I didn't really have any inspiration for, Fantasia them and give them a name change and have them be a refugee who gets picked up by my crew, but actually didn't feel that would be that fun.

 

Instead, I thought I would go another route, this character I have no inspiration for is a street urchin, who had left their home and decided to live life on the streets before being picked up by our FC's cook and she got fed, was given accommodation and became our chocobo keeper and is learning to become a thief (currently she's very amateurish with it). I thought what could make things interesting is to have had her as an Au Ra all along, but with an assumed identity and glamour, having her on the run. But now many Au Ra have migrated, she feels safer not using her glamour, seeing an Au Ra in Limsa would generally stand out, but now there's a few she feels safer - she bumped into a group of recent migrants in The Missing Member and got a little excited and that's kinda where she lost her glamour. Said migrants are now crewmates and have made a home. There's no friction ICly with these strange, foreign newcomers because Captain Saefinn has always had the attitude, "I don't care where you're from, what you background is, so long as we can keep each others back and not step out of line, then that's all that matters". In fact, he said something along those lines to an Au Ra last night.

 

Then I thought about tying my Au Ra in with one of my other characters, but going down that road will present spoilers for my FC members.

[OverlordOutpost]

Katiti's so far gotten along with most of the Raela.  They tend to be intelligent and adaptable; both traits she likes and appreciates being a businesswoman.

Xaela however?  She's met a few around Ul'dah and finds them to be nasty, brutish, and quick to violence.  Pretty much everything she's against.

 

For the most part she's been happy talking and sharing ideas with the Raela, and angry and scared of the "barbaric savages' Xaela.

 

Anyone who was hiding the fact that they're an Au Ra though caught her wrath for outright lying to her face for so long about it.

[Aislinn]

Nyx did a double take the first time she saw one. Now she's mostly just curious. Where did they come from? Why did they all show up all of the sudden? Are things that bad in their homeland that they had to immigrate in droves? 

 

She's quietly observing and learning all she can.

[Seriphyn]

Beyond that, she hasn't had any issue with auri, except when they try to act superior (which she doesn't brook from anyone) or make a point of insulting Eorzea -- particularly if they're from Doma. The way she sees it, if you're a refugee, you should at least be civil to your new hosts.

 

Big one for Kale as well. Being a personal experiment in roleplaying a very conservative, traditional outlook (as befitting the time period), Kale is averse to the sudden arrival of Au Ra, seeing them as destabilizing, as we know next to nothing about them in-universe. 

 

They must uncompromisingly be respectful of Eorzeans and their realm, otherwise "sod off back to where you came from".

[Makyn Loneseeker]

Makyn was shocked the first time he saw one in the middle of the night, but didn't voice it to the person, and just kept speaking normally.

 

Now they're just like every other person to him, though he has yelled at a couple of Raen/Xaela who were having an argument that they weren't in their homeland anymore, and it's time to come together.

[Griffith!]

Marten finds them strangely attractive, in an exotic, foreign kind of way. It helps that they look draconic, and he sympathizes with the dragons. The first time he met a couple, though, the male threatened to kill him after he was propositioned by the female, so he's been wary of pretty much all of them ever since. (He thinks they're a little crazy.)

[Cavistus]

Along with hundreds of people suddenly going missing, dozens of people Allister knew a moon ago are now Au Ra; each with vastly different stories about how they became one.

 

Being a considerably ignorant individual, Allister assumes it's some sort of bizarre disease epidemic that's going around claiming lives in scores, only to deform those who survive.

[D'aito Kuji]

D'aito has commented in her newsletter (tumblr blog) about their appearance and smell. She promised to put pictures in her next update.

 

Not to spoil anything for anyone who actually reads the blog, but there's usually significant economic impact on a region when faced with a dramatic increase in immigration.  It would almost certainly become temporarily impossible to make a living fishing, fetching, and fighting.  There's too much competition.

[Marisa]

Terrible monsters. All of them. Fortunately they can only see you if you can see them, so if you cover your eyes and yell loudly enough, they eventually go away. Which is important to know, because they'll eat anyone smaller than them.

[Gegenji]

Man, why's this delicious morsel yelling so much? Must want me to know how tasty it is.

[LiadansWhisper]

Along with hundreds of people suddenly going missing, dozens of people Allister knew a moon ago are now Au Ra; each with vastly different stories about how they became one.

 

Being a considerably ignorant individual, Allister assumes it's some sort of bizarre disease epidemic that's going around claiming lives in scores, only to deform those who survive.

 

This is amazing.    

 

Perfect explanation, imo!

[Jean L]

More interested in the contents of their wallets at first but after a few pickpocket attempts gone horrifically wrong Jade learns to avoid the Xaela.

[V'aleera]

Au Ra are weird; Domans too for that matter.

 

But whatever, war were declared and there's more important things to worry about.

[Lilia Lia]

It's been weird but I've made the difficult decision to just have my character not acknowledge the Au Ra immigration as an event.  The reason I did this was because most Au Ra RPers that I've met aren't treating it that way, so I'd be imposing my own lore (even if I think it's justified) onto them if I were to act like "one Friday, a new race showed up."

 

I've met Au Ra who claim that they've lived in Eorzea for a long time, so my response to Au Ra has been a bit of a retcon.  I also find the "oh wow a new race how interesting" RP to be uninteresting so I'm mostly having Lilia passively take notice of the race.

 

Of course she'll be ignorant of them and their preferences and their natures, and will form an opinion on them gradually the way she has been doing the other strange races (i.e. the ones not indigenous to her native Ul'dah).  But as far as the "immigration" itself forming part of her racial opinion, I decided not to.

[LadyRochester]

It's been weird but I've made the difficult decision to just have my character not acknowledge the Au Ra immigration as an event.  The reason I did this was because most Au Ra RPers that I've met aren't treating it that way, so I'd be imposing my own lore (even if I think it's justified) onto them if I were to act like "one Friday, a new race showed up."

 

I've met Au Ra who claim that they've lived in Eorzea for a long time, so my response to Au Ra has been a bit of a retcon.  I also find the "oh wow a new race how interesting" RP to be uninteresting so I'm mostly having Lilia passively take notice of the race.

 

Of course she'll be ignorant of them and their preferences and their natures, and will form an opinion on them gradually the way she has been doing the other strange races (i.e. the ones not indigenous to her native Ul'dah).  But as far as the "immigration" itself forming part of her racial opinion, I decided not to.

 

While I understand your decision, I will also say that by treating Aura as immigrants would not be "imposing your own lore" as nowhere does it say in the lore than Au-Ra are natively Eorzean. In the lore it explicitly states that they are from Othard, NOT Eorzea. People from Othard did not have any reason (or almost any reason) to arrive in Eorzea until after the Imperials took over.

[Sigil.9054]

Seldi didn't notice the Au-Ra at all at first. She barely pays attention to other people, and so probably didn't even realize they were all that different until she had to talk to one directly.

 

On top of that, her lifestyle was - until recently - so isolated that as far as she knew, "the horned people" were just people that had always been around, and she simply hadn't run across them yet. After all, no one else seems to be alarmed, so it must be a normal thing, right?

[-no longer matters-]

War Siren is mostly unaffected. She just figures these new refugees are just trying to make a name for them selves being new and all and that's why they're everywhere. As long as they don't take jobs from her, she's okay with it.

[Seriphyn]

It's been weird but I've made the difficult decision to just have my character not acknowledge the Au Ra immigration as an event.  The reason I did this was because most Au Ra RPers that I've met aren't treating it that way, so I'd be imposing my own lore (even if I think it's justified) onto them if I were to act like "one Friday, a new race showed up."

 

I've met Au Ra who claim that they've lived in Eorzea for a long time, so my response to Au Ra has been a bit of a retcon.  I also find the "oh wow a new race how interesting" RP to be uninteresting so I'm mostly having Lilia passively take notice of the race.

 

Of course she'll be ignorant of them and their preferences and their natures, and will form an opinion on them gradually the way she has been doing the other strange races (i.e. the ones not indigenous to her native Ul'dah).  But as far as the "immigration" itself forming part of her racial opinion, I decided not to.

 

While I understand your decision, I will also say that by treating Aura as immigrants would not be "imposing your own lore" as nowhere does it say in the lore than Au-Ra are natively Eorzean. In the lore it explicitly states that they are from Othard, NOT Eorzea. People from Othard did not have any reason (or almost any reason) to arrive in Eorzea until after the Imperials took over.

 

Yep.

 

If you want to play an Eorzean, play an Eorzean race, etc.