Dealing with PC reality over NPC reality

[Dravus]

To me the Miqo'te male thing is fairly simple. Unless a male is strong enough to become the Nuhn, he has to sit there his whole life as a tia, never getting any of that hot hot miqo'te booty. As most people who have gone through puberty know, it would be daunting prospect for a young hot (because what male miqo'te isn't hot?) male (or woman) to waste his best years waiting for the current Nuhn to get old or die.

 

So they head out into the world, where their is plenty of love for young hot males, and the prospect of becoming stronger, eventually returning and being a Nuhn. Females have no such pressure pushing them out to become adventurers, besides the normal ones (dissatisfaction with tribal life, love of adventure, need to explorer, etc etc.).

 

I think this explains why there are so many male miqo'te running about, and also why they're often perched all over the city in their underwear.

 

On the other hand, though, they're not really the lusty teens that people often role-play them as. I suppose it's typical of any attractive race in an online game that supports role-play but there's a real risk of stuff that isn't necessarily canon overshadowing the stuff that actually is canon.

 

There's exceptions, sure - but it should come at the cost of there being consequences if they're going to go against everything the race stands for. It could make for some pretty interesting role-play if a Tia who had set off on an adventure had to keep himself from being seen by those who would hunt him down in revenge for effectively abandoning his tribe.

 

I'm sure some people incorporate that sort of stuff, though. It's just a shame it isn't more common - it's growing tiring for my miq'ote to reluctantly enter a city for supplies and receive abuse from 'city' miqo'te who treat everyone who isn't a potential love interest like dirt.

[Flickering Ember]

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?

 

The former will probably say there are a lot of male miqote. It is hard to pretend that large population away.

 

While the latter may say that it is merely a coincidence that so many male miqote appear in one place and consider them a small fraction of the population.

 

I don't see either as wrong but I have seen these different perspectives pop up often in other MMOs because there is always a population imbalance of some kind.

[FreelanceWizard]

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.

[allgivenover]

You'd think Keeper males would be even more compelled to stay at home, since there isn't a male hierarchy dictating their role like there is in Seeker tribes. I would venture to guess that Keeper males would be just as rare as Seeker males, and the family Matriarchs would rather the males stay home and take care of the family. Do all the cooking and whatnot.

 

At that point it's more speculation.

 

The statement that Miqo'te males are rare is in fact only found /under/ the Keeper of the Moon heading. It was only after ARR launched that we were able to confirm for sure that Seeker males were rare.

 

It's very easy for Keeper males to be out and about in the world. Keepers are loners by nature, do not have a hierarchy that determines breeding status, and have recently been forced to move into the cities, along with many other refugees. It's possible that breeding males are forced to stay home, under matriarchal rule, but that's why I killed Li's tribe off. I don't want to be in a messy situation when we finally get more lore.

 

You killed a whole tribe just to avoid dealing with aligning the lore you established for them with canon?  With my Li I had get forced out do to his village's matriarch, and most of the elders, being extremely anti-magic, something that the Calamity only amplified.  On the subject of so many maleqo'te, like the other Li I just pretend non-roleplayer PCs don't exist.

 

Not the entire tribe, just the people who kept it together. And not only to avoid problems with lore later on, I also did it because the adventuring life is a difficult one, full of danger. From a rational standpoint if a person has a stable life, with people to look after and in turn look after them, then they have little reason to risk that life with adventuring.

 

Honestly if you have a stable happy life there is no reason to assume the role of adventurer, at all. How many people do you know in real life that have abandoned their comforts for the road (and no, camping trips and hiking don't count)? Zero.

[TheLastCandle]

If we're going by similarities, Ivalice is absolutely one of the closest FF worlds to Hydaelyn. The number of actually recycled monster models, the visual/aesthetic similarities (thanks, Akihiko Yoshida!) and spoilers regarding elements of cosmology certainly imply it heavily enough.

 

But we shouldn't discount connections to the world of FFV (once again, spoilers for 2.1 content). Hydaelyn has a lot of potential connections to the worlds of other games, and only time will tell if anything comes of it.

 

After XI and before XIV was announced, I always hoped Ivalice would be the setting of the "next" FF MMO.

 

The dimension-hopping that has occurred with Lightning and, more recently, Shantotto is exciting to me. As a 2nd and 3rd Ed. D&D player, one of the more interesting aspects of it was the idea of a multiverse, with high level adventures often involving "plane-hopping." So this is right up my alley, even if it's something my character is completely oblivious to.

[Dravus]

If we're going by similarities, Ivalice is absolutely one of the closest FF worlds to Hydaelyn. The number of actually recycled monster models, the visual/aesthetic similarities (thanks, Akihiko Yoshida!) and spoilers regarding elements of cosmology certainly imply it heavily enough.

 

But we shouldn't discount connections to the world of FFV (once again, spoilers for 2.1 content). Hydaelyn has a lot of potential connections to the worlds of other games, and only time will tell if anything comes of it.

 

After XI and before XIV was announced, I always hoped Ivalice would be the setting of the "next" FF MMO.

 

The dimension-hopping that has occurred with Lightning and, more recently, Shantotto is exciting to me. As a 2nd and 3rd Ed. D&D player, one of the more interesting aspects of it was the idea of a multiverse, with high level adventures often involving "plane-hopping." So this is right up my alley, even if it's something my character is completely oblivious to.

 

I'd be a very happy man if Ivalice ended up being brought into FFXIV somehow, either directly or through a cameo appearance. It'll be interesting to see what direction the game goes in once it starts to bring more of the world into being.

[Jomoru]

You'd think Keeper males would be even more compelled to stay at home, since there isn't a male hierarchy dictating their role like there is in Seeker tribes. I would venture to guess that Keeper males would be just as rare as Seeker males, and the family Matriarchs would rather the males stay home and take care of the family. Do all the cooking and whatnot.

 

At that point it's more speculation.

 

In times of great desolation in our world, wars, catastrophes etc gender diversity has been radically altered by all the "go out and do stuff" people dying off because they run into wars and all that stuff. Presumably this might be the case with the Miqote. There just aren't as many females around anymore to hold up that sort of thing.