RPC Race Demographic Poll

[Lilia Lia]

I made macros that forced /straight during the animation so Virara could do those gestures without smiling.

 

That's great.  I also did something similar with adding /smile to the /upset emote for a dreamy sigh, and a /smile to the /sulk emote for a bashful eye aversion.  I love how you can use expressions to change emotes like that.

 

Anyways, I've also thought that lalafells are cuter when they act more serious.  That's part of the fun of it.  Virara has a real presence based on what little I've seen of her though, one of the few Lalafells who cranked up the height slider. 

[LiadansWhisper]

I picked Hyur purely for aethestic reasons and nothing more. While 9 times out of 10 I will always pick an elvish race (especially a 'dark' elvish race), Elezens just look too weird to me, and none of the other races appealed to me no matter how many hours I spent in character creation.

 

So I went with a boring Hyur.

 

I'm the same, and that was my exact issue with Elezen.  Something about the proportions is just off to me on the females, and even tho I think their faces are really pretty, I just couldn't bring myself to play one.

[Caspar]

I made macros that forced /straight during the animation so Virara could do those gestures without smiling.

 

That's great.  I also did something similar with adding /smile to the /upset emote for a dreamy sigh, and a /smile to the /sulk emote for a bashful eye aversion.  I love how you can use expressions to change emotes like that.

 

Anyways, I've also thought that lalafells are cuter when they act more serious.  That's part of the fun of it.  Virara has a real presence based on what little I've seen of her though, one of the few Lalafells who cranked up the height slider. 

I needed to do that because /yes is by far my most used emote, and the Lalafell smiles slightly while doing it, which I felt was out of character.

 

Anyway, I appreciate it. Virara is even taller by a bit ICly. I think you can only go about 3'3" ingame, and Virara is 3'5" and growing. She is probably the tallest Lalafell anyone has seen. and were she to keep growing upward, at some point she might be considered to be actually "giant" for their race. If she were to go into a Plainsfolk burrow-village, she'd be hitting her head constantly.

 

... >_> This may be a plot point later on. But mainly, since she is a fistfighter, she needed the slight increase in height to be able to trade blows in a way that is only slightly awkward with a typical Hyur of middling height, at least without jumping a lot, which she does anyway. It's another case of aesthetics writing the character for me, in which I visualized what I wanted to do in rp and tried to make a character that served that purpose.

 

I've never been one for the "characters as people" thing, and I assembled traits that made sense and could be strung into a cohesive background as I went. If it vaguely resembles a plausible individual, I'm satisfied, but I want them to serve my purposes more than anything. I imagine that for a lot of players, the same is true of why they chose the race they did. For me, I wanted to fuse "cute" and "tough," "dark" and "hopeful," and so did I reuse an old character idea and make it into Virara. I've never been above rehashing myself if nobody around has seen the original... :v Well, I did give it a new spin at least... Anyway, if the race serves your storytelling purpose, there's no worry of whether it's popular or unpopular, but I do like the fact that Lalas aren't overly common, as they are amongst non-rp players. It gives my character that much more distinctiveness to not be amongst lots of violent, sullen lalas with dependency issues.

 

We probably should rp more. Actually, Virara needs to sharpen her reading comprehension in Eorzean, lol.

[Griffith!]

I rolled a midland Hyur as my first character because it was the most Nilla Wafer option. I regret not having gone Elezen or Highlander for Marten. Either of those would have been more aesthetically what I want.

 

Lalafell would have been a solid choice too, considering his background, and seeing it as the least popular option makes me kind of want to roll one.

[Michikyou]

I have one of everything, so uhh. I don't know how I fit on here..

 

I do however roleplay my Hyur more, but I just feel more comfortable being a majority lore-wise race of the game.

[Kurt S.]

If I were to really just label my main, it'd be midlander. If only because Kathe(Formerly Kurt) is probably the only I have who can rp at the moment and the closest to 60.

 

Also because hyur's where it's at >>gets shot<< anyway I guess i just like what I can do with em. Though I voted hyur miq and au ra. 

 

Especially the keepers. There's just something charming about /taunt and showing the world that you DO have fangs.

[Jean L]

The one I've been RPing the longest is Elezen. I don't even have a reason other than I really love RPing elves. The lanky build of Elezen really suited his character as a shady guy who steals/makes forgeries for a living. Jade is both my love of elves and aesthetics. Ahaha

My two recent ones are both Au Ra Xaela because I wanted to explore the lore by playing two characters from different clans.

[Momo]

12-13 years ago, I started Final Fantasy XI as a Tarutaru, which I played for many years after.  I don't know how many people do this, but I played a lot from a first person point of view, and therefore became used to a certain line of vision in the game...now I can't go back.  I have now tried to play at least three other races at length, each of which (even with a good story) I have deleted within a week :frustrated:...I will say, I do have twins for which I have two accounts, and they are both Miqo, so I have managed to keep them as alts, but Momo is now and ever shall be a Lalafell.

 

Now!  Being a lala has it's own problems...people think I am a child, and as such often treat you like a child, even in RP.  I don't mind it sooo much, but when it comes to romance for a character I think it will be a little hard for me, because I have heard all of my RP friends basically (except those who are also Lalas) tell me they would never have an interest in romancing a Lala because we are too "cute" and "childlike" looking, even when we clearly display a mature adult personality.  I guess I know where they are coming from, but at the same time having always played a Lala...I also don't really, as I don't see Lalas as children at all.

 

All that being said, please play a Lala!  We are an interesting and complex race, we have a great love for many things, and those who play our race tend to have unique personalities and a sense of community you won't often find other places!

 

Have any questions or concerns?  Thinking of being Lala but not sure?  Are you a gentleman looking for a Lala gentleman to take you out on the town?  Contact Momoto Chibito in game, he is here to help with all your Lalafell needs!

[Zanther]

Been rping for about two months now and a Lala so havn't encountered too many diffaculties on being one, since my rp group is accepting of me, and intresting enough I am the only Lalafell in our group and such intresting interacting with the others. And since I've started to rp, i find it hard to change my race now, not saying that's a bad thing (though I have a few people in my FC who keep bugging me about being a lala and change back to my orginal race).

[K'nahli]

I have a number of characters but I don't RP often and the times I do are almost exclusively limited to forum and Skype so I didn't think I should vote(?)