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RE: Why Did You Choose Your Character's Race? - Parvacake - 12-02-2014

Well, this Lili was loosely based off the original carnation of Lili who was from WoW. Only she was a blood elf there and the story I had for her fit, and was decently transferrable to this game with a few edits.

However, Lili has always been on the shorter side. She's 5'4, and an Elezen was too tall while a miqo'te looked too young. So hyur it was!

RE: Why Did You Choose Your Character's Race? - Sounsyy - 12-02-2014

Sounsyy is Miqo'te because she was Mithra in XI. And her namesake was Mithra in XI.

But her story, for the most part, is fairly independent of her race. She could have just as easily (and still just as easily) been Hyur and her character stayed intact. But I did enjoy expanding upon her Miqo'te background and upbringing when the Miqo'te Naming Conventions were released.

RE: Why Did You Choose Your Character's Race? - Verad - 12-02-2014

Because playing an elderly, bearded Duskwight peddler stands out far more than a Midlander, the original choice. There was no way to not make Verad look like a drug-dealer as a Midlander.

RE: Why Did You Choose Your Character's Race? - Aaron - 12-02-2014

(12-02-2014, 06:46 PM)Melkire Wrote: Unless there's another race that appeals to me, I usually play as humans in both roleplay and video games. XIV lacks bangaa, so I went with hyur. Midlander specifically, since I wanted something small, agile and nimble to complement the character's background, origins, etc. Only other XIV race I was interested in, Lalafell, I ended up using for an alt.

(12-02-2014, 06:12 PM)Coatleque Wrote: And midlanders looked too scrawny for melee combat.

I'm going to just quote Caine on this. (Fictional character, mind you, written by a relatively-well-versed martial artist)

Quote:Idiots pretending to know something about fighting sometimes say shit like Other things being equal, advantage lies with the longer weapon or Other things being equal, the fighter who strikes first wins. My favorite is Other things being equal, a big man beats a small man.

Know what makes them idiots? Wait. I'll show you.

[The ogrillo] finally commits: with a grunt like a rhino's cough he launches a full lunge, jamming that spear straight for my spine by way of my navel. I slap the spear aside with a clank, and his eyes go wide at the sparks the knife up my left sleeve strikes off his blade.

Before he has the faintest fucking chance to figure out what just happened, I'm spinning toward him along the spear shaft, left hand grabbing his nearside tusk while my right clears the knife past my left cuff, and when his reflexive sideways yank rips his tusk out of my grip, that same yank shows me the back of his skull. So that's where I put the knife.

The blade's only seven inches. The point doesn't quite come out his mouth.

Get it?

"Other things" are never equal.

(12-02-2014, 07:12 PM)Verad Wrote: Because playing an elderly, bearded Duskwight peddler stands out far more than a Midlander, the original choice. There was no way to not make Verad look like a drug-dealer as a Midlander.
Isn't that what you do anyway?  >_>

"Want to buy some -dubious- goods my friend? " *shakes pill bottle* "It'll make you see noises and smell colors"

RE: Why Did You Choose Your Character's Race? - Melody - 12-02-2014

I loved Lalafell pretty much as soon as I saw them in the opening cutscene.
It was like *loud le gasp* "Awwwwww!"

I tried Miquo'te and Roe for a little bit, but stopped pretty quickly.  I just wanted to be small and totally adorable. =^^=

Plus, I feel like it's a perfect fit for myself as a person.  I too am quite short (and adorable, according to my hubbind)

RE: Why Did You Choose Your Character's Race? - Gegenji - 12-02-2014

I like the whole David and Goliath thing going with tiny dudes taking on and beating much larger dudes. I think I started sometime in Vanilla WoW watching a Gnome Warrior tank Onyxia in 40-man. Huge destructive beast being held at bay by a little guy no bigger than one of her talons.

Plus, there's something inherently amusing to the idea of the grand hero of the MSQ being this dumpy little guy with a button nose. Doubly so since I've given both my Lalas the Undecided face, which makes them look rather displeased with anything they're doing in the story. Dodging thrown cards, dancing a jig with pirates, facing down prials. All with the hardest disinterest possible provided by a knee-high hero.

[sub](Also they're adorable.)[/sub]

RE: Why Did You Choose Your Character's Race? - Merri - 12-02-2014

To preface this, I've been playing FFXIV since alpha/beta for 1.0. I still remember the disappointment when they announced that male Miqo'te would not be a thing in XIV, and was annoyed that they hadn't learned their lesson from years of people asking for male Mithra in XI. Merri would have been a Miqo'te in a heartbeat had then been an option, but, he wound up being a Midlander as that was my second choice. Even still, he wound up being sort of a playful/mischievous flirt, as he was originally going to be if he were a Miqo'te.

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However, come ARR, I couldn't resist the temptation of finally making him a Miqo'te, so he was retconned into a Sunseeker and that was that. I roleplayed him as a Hyur for years, and looking back, I can't imagine him as a Hyur anymore. Miqo'te wound up being such a perfect fit for his character.

I think I mentioned this earlier in a different thread about names, but I actually wound up really enjoying the dynamic of having a Miqo'te without a traditional tribal name. It gave me the opportunity to play a very civilized and, well, non-tribal Miqo'te. Granted, you could do that regardless, but I like to look at it as him being one step further removed from it all. He's a Sunseeker who has literally no concept of the tribal lifestyle, and thinks the really tribal Miqo'te are a bit on the barbaric side~

Some things never change, though.

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RE: Why Did You Choose Your Character's Race? - TheShii - 12-02-2014

to be honest I chose miqo'te just because I was stoked there was finally a male option since I played a mithra in ff11. I enjoy the female roe's and male elezen too though and have two unused avatars made of those races as well.

RE: Why Did You Choose Your Character's Race? - Seriphyn - 12-02-2014

Because a hardened military veteran is not going to look like an anime boy Midlander or an anime cat boy.

RE: Why Did You Choose Your Character's Race? - cuideag - 12-02-2014

I was originally going to play a hella fine Roegadyn.

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... but then I played around with the character creator and, remembering how much I ADORED Tarus in XI, decided to give Lalafell a try. And it stuck, because honestly you can't beat a lalafell.

Scary Roegadyn would later become a hella fine Highlander instead, because I couldn't get a Roe to look angry enough for my liking. GO FIGURE.

RE: Why Did You Choose Your Character's Race? - Jaliqai - 12-02-2014

(12-02-2014, 06:12 PM)Zhavi Wrote: I like cats.




That's it.

Quoted for truth.

Really, though, I just love both lore for Sunseeker and Moonkeeper miqo'te the most out of all the other races/clans and was inspired by them. N'hadiya especially so. I love Sunseeker tribal culture, so I wanted to do a Sunseeker who has deep tribal influences and ties.

Xheja being a moonqo'te was admittedly more aesthetic than simply lore inspired. Because I always end up playing boring white bread humans in MMOs and I needed a change.

But in the future, I really want to branch out to other races. I love them all. ; ;

RE: Why Did You Choose Your Character's Race? - Volk - 12-02-2014

Hrmm, I feel like this might fail to land since the general paradigm is to say, "I chose x race because y race has z trait that I don't like." Still, here goes.

I went into the character creator with little to no knowledge of the FFXIV lore and no idea of what I wanted to play. I loved all of the races - they all had such unique charm! I skipped around and finally got to Elezen and was pleasantly surprised with their unconventional body proportions. I thought that it was a really unique visual representation on the 'elf' fantasy trope. The designers seemed to go out of their way to not make Elezen the perfect, beautiful people. They are gangly, awkward looking creatures that have a lot of visual character. So that's what drew me in!

RE: Why Did You Choose Your Character's Race? - Blue - 12-02-2014

Jet'a's? I wanted male mithras since FFXI, for once.

And for second, I didn't want to play anything that I had already played on XI. When I start fresh, I like to start anew, rather than carry over a previous character I RPd.

RE: Why Did You Choose Your Character's Race? - Aysun - 12-02-2014

I learned of heavy RPing in a place called Furcadia. While I'm not a furry, Aysun was developed there and she was an anthropomorphic Turkish Van cat with odd eyes (I just love that breed of cat). So, she has always been a 'cat' of sorts. I played Mithra in XI, using her name there, so naturally when I came to XIV she could only be a Miqo'te. And you have no idea how stoked I was to get to represent her eyes how they are supposed to be in this game. Smile

While I hate being one of a million Miqo'te, I couldn't change her to be anything else.

RE: Why Did You Choose Your Character's Race? - Artigan - 12-02-2014

One word: Thundercats! Cool

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