Poll: Au Ra and your character, what will you do?

[Blue]

A lot of us are excited about the new races and are already brainstorming on how to RP one. I've been hearing all kinds of things, but I'd love to get a general idea of what people will do to achieve RPing an Au Ra.

 

Personally, I'm going to ICly kill two of my alts (I'm on 8/8 slots, I wish I had more!) and Fantasia/Name Change them into Au Ras, but I know there's lots of other options! What will you do?

 

Will you kill a selected character to create a brand new Au Ra?

 

Will your character be cursed / bribed into drinking Fantasia and receive the features of an Au Ra, but preserve his/her original personality and habits? Or will they suffer a complete mind reset as well?

 

Or maybe you simply aren't going to RP as an Au Ra? Let me know!

[Izmina]

I like my kitty and have no urge to play an Au Ra. But I am looking forward to my girl seeing one of the first time.

[Blue]

I like my kitty and have no urge to play an Au Ra. But I am looking forward to my girl seeing one of the first time.

 

Poll is up and running now, sorry it took me a bit!

[Berrod Armstrong]

/looks at results

Well, shit.

[Random Encounter]

I only have two character slot used at the moment so I'll probably make one when they come out. As for RPing it, I will probably wait a while until I know enough about the race to figure out a proper setup.

[Eve Malusion]

I have character slots, but I always burn out on alts. I'm terrible with them. So if anything I'd kill main and fantasia it buuuut... I'm broke for the foreseeable future! Staying the same!

 

_{Unless they have a hairstyle I really like.}

[Kellach Woods]

I have 2 alts planned to make, an Au Ra will be the third I think.

[Warren Castille]

Don't know jack about racial lore or identity. Can't commit to a race without knowing what they are.

[Berrod Armstrong]

Don't know jack about racial lore or identity. Can't commit to a race without knowing what they are.

Dingdingding!

[Kellach Woods]

I'd agree on principle, but so far I don't think they've made a single race I wouldn't play. I'd bend the lore for Miqo most likely, but I'd still roll it if I really wanted to.

 

So, unless they made the Au Ra completely despicable as a race, I'm still down.

[Aaron]

I don't like any other race besides Midlanders. 

 

Au Ra ain't no different.

[Dis]

I'm a little too attached to my main character as an Elezen to name-change her.  That said, the Au Ra look really elegant and I'm looking forward to digging my teeth into the lore about them before I go off and make a new character that's of that race.  

 

But they seem interesting, if appearance are anything to go by, so I'm eagerly looking forward to the ability to make one.  Kind of glad now that I haven't actively RP'd all of the toons I've made, so I'm not at all guilty about deleting an unplayed toon to make a new race/class combo.

[Gegenji]

I have a couple alt character ideas I want to do, but have been holding off until I get Chachan up in levels and properly geared to help out both LS and FC as much as he can. And have access to the widest range of costumes for dress-up.

 

One's a Hyur, one's a Roe. Adding an Au Ra to the pile shouldn't be horribly difficult, and it might even replace one of the other two, depending! I just need to find out more about them so I can figure out a story for them!

 

As for Chachan, he's foreverlala.

[Kismet]

I'll be changing an alt into one, provided we actually can use a Fantasia for that. I don't think SE would pull that jerk move, but I'm always prepared for the worst. The alt in question, my character Lhei, won't be dying or really going MIA. She's just sort of... in the background-ish. Living her life, doing her thing with her fiance'.

[Clover]

I've been saving a character slot all this time, just in case I liked the new race. I literally can't wait for them to arrive >_<

I'd never dare to change any of my current characters. Each of them is important.

[Martiallais]

I probably will end up making a new alt alongside my ladyfriend as she's expressed some interest in making one. And since I only have two characters, I've got slots to spare.

[D'aito Kuji]

The only reason I play FFXIV is for the Miqo'te.  So there's little the Au Ra can do to change my mind.  I am looking forward to the potential drop in Miqo'te populations.

 

But I might roll and alt once I see them in person and if they have intriguing background and Lore.

[Seriphyn]

I am looking forward to the potential drop in Miqo'te populations.

 

It's not a good thing that the fan service race will drop purely because of another fan service race!

 

I find the Au Ra's sexual dimorphism despicable, and as I've said elsewhere, one shouldn't need an exotic race to make an interesting character. Anyone should be able to make an interesting character with the most basic race/class. If Square Enix had the artistic integrity to make the female Au Ra look similar to the men, maybe I wouldn't think so little of it.

 

That being said, will 100% back legit Au Ra ninjas. Will /straightface Au Ra being born in Eorzea.

[Iex]

As we have very little lore outside of the distinct possibility that some Au Ra came along for the ride with Yugiri. All I can assume is that maybe some have been some in hiding in Mor. (Hoods to hide horns and tails hidden.)

 

While we do not have definite time passed since 2.2, we can assume enough time has passed that Yugiri and the Doman people have gotten acquainted with the lands (hence why they can handle stuff so well in MSQ) so a Au Ra might not be entirely clueless of the world they are in.

 

Also, the Ninja storyline is not connected to MSQ, so it means travel from the east to here is possible and here to the east, meaning that perhaps they could have been here longer than the start of Heavensward. However... I haven't the slightest if I will do something with one of my characters.

 

Reasons being:

 

1) I haven't clue about the lore. SE could say they are living in the North. (Wouldn't be surprised if their homeland is part of the new zones rather than overseas)

2) If I were to transform one of my characters into one, I would probably name change/fantasia OOCly, and then make an alt by the name of the old one so the character still exists. But since that requires IRL money I would need a SOLID character idea to do that. PVE Main and RP main don't need to really be tied together.

 

Until we get more lore and information about them, I cannot answer the poll outside of derp... I don't know.

[Steel Wolf]

I will continue to remain a FemRoe unicorn until the day I die!

 

/fistpump

[Kage]

I could do three things but it all hems on whether or not RPing as Kage and playing a Lalafell still be fun or not.

 

I have fantasias to use.

 

I do have the character slots but none of them have been leveled past 15 of the three I DO have so...

[Lilira Lira]

Hmm... I like Lili too much to want to Race change, I may create an alt to mess around with. But I'm a Lalafell Lover at heart and that's how I'll stay! ^.^

 

#LoveTheLala's

#GimmeShinyThings

[Flickering Ember]

I was planning on giving a Fantasia to an alt. I would have role-played that as the character being transformed by magic. Don't think I will be going that route, though. I will be sticking with my current race. However, I look forward to role-playing with all the new characters that will be Au Ra.

[Anzio]

Don't know jack about racial lore or identity. Can't commit to a race without knowing what they are.

Dingdingding!

 

I was going to fantasia an alt if I liked the lore. They look decent enough, now they just have to be decent enough.

[Clover]

Everyone is going to use Fantasias? Will I be the only lv 1 newbie Au Ra? ;_;