discussion Things Your Character Believes That Are Wrong

[Baby Hands]

This is going to be fun. And a lot. Sorry in advance.

 

When it comes to the races of Eorzea... there's a lot. Highlanders are good only for their muscle and he firmly believes even the brightest of the bunch are duller than the dullest lalafell. Especially if they're Ala Mhigans. Miqo'te males - even Seekers - he considers to be a subspecies to their own race, and only tolerated and kept around by females for the sake of procreation, and are good for virtually nothing else. Not just subhuman, but submiqo'te. The title of Nuhn he believes to mean: 'the most seed.' Au Ra are essentially lizards, he's quite sure their tongues are long enough to lick their own eyeballs, and even though he's been told otherwise as far as he's concerned the jury is still out on whether female Auri have actual female parts. He believes all Roegadyn have a distant relation to Amaal'ja, and so the term 'Sea Wolves' confuses him.

 

He mixes up the relationships of the Twelve. Constantly. Since he is ready to believe all perverted rumors told by the wise sage One-Eyed Wondada, he is sure the rivalry between Nophica and Halone has to do with breast envy.

 

Even though he travels there sometimes, he is completely clueless to the going-ons of Gridania. He's pretty sure the Padjal are the authority when it comes to choosing blood sacrifices to appease their shiny boogeymans. He does not believe the Elementals are an actual real thing - just a fairy tale to keep citizens in line. Which he thinks is ingenious.

 

Alcohol has no adverse affects on his physical health.

 

He's 100% certain it's called 'Thravneer.'

 

Since he's actually never seen one face-to-face, he thinks the idea of Garleans having a third eye is ridiculous, and is positive people are just mistaking for an eye what is actually a third nipple.

 

Chakras are made up nonsense propagated by Ala Mhigans to make themselves seem more powerful.

 

He believes all forms of magick are essentially the same.

 

He's never seen a kobold, but based on the descriptions he's heard, they are... goblins. Kobold = another term for goblin.

 

Okay I'm just going to stop myself here but I can go on for ages. You get the idea.

[Kallera]

Kallera will often uses terms that sound right to her, but are inaccurate for others.

 

Example- She will call a person doing something perverted a "lush", even though a lush is someone who is drunk, not necessarily perverted. She doesn't know the proper meaning, and sticks with the way she knows...which is how her parents used it.

 

Another example is "heart"- she uses that often with matters involving a person's soul or their emotional state. The way she would describe a person getting tempered would be to say their heart was being erased and replaced. Or a person recovering from a breakup is going to have their heart heal given time.

 

She has not been corrected yet, though the difference had been noticed by at least one person. :fingers crossed:

[Shimizu no Koichi]

For Koichi:

 

 

1.What do your characters believe that you know, OOC, to be fundamentally incorrect about the setting?

 

That Eorzea is chaos and that true culture and an ideal society was wiped off the map when Doma was destroyed. He was very sheltered and only just met his first hyur, despite many living in his home city-state, at the age of 10. He is still getting over prejudices regarding all non-Raen Au Ra but still thinks Zaela are naturally stronger and less intelligent. He also thinks all Ishgardians are butchers and is wary of Elizen in general. Living in Limsa Lominsa has helped change his world-view but not completely.

 

 

2.How do you address people trying to "correct" your character about these misconceptions, especially if it's very important to your character concept? And how often does it happen?

 

Just like anyone who uses experiences or prejudices based on caricatures as thier truth, Koichi would likely double-down and attempt to use logic to justify his opinions. He isn't generally hateful towards other races but his lack of experience with non-Raen coupled with the sheer culture shock of having to move to Limsa Lominsa helped foster wrong opinions.