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I think they might have to contend with this as a growing problem.
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I also imagine that, with regulators and revives, this kind of thing is really, really super rare. Foster kids are a pretty low number, and orphans? Almost unheard of. Family taking in kids they're told belong to dead family members is just the Done Thing.
And now, post-LM shutdown and code blood..
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Alexandria to have kids - and since Phobia's had an orchi, it'll probably be IVF with frozen sperm. I think it's reasonable to imagine Alexandria's developed that tech (and I don't think there's a whole lot of orphans to go around there). They've been preparing for that for a long time.
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ಠ_ಠ
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Cause the people using Ishgard as a cover to just be racist usually are the same ones that insist that yes, actually, we're still burning witches and screaming about heretics.
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It's a good thing, it means they at least have enough actual curiosity and engagement with the post-HW setting to want to explore the post-reconstruction lore and aren't stuck in "we're doing witch burnings" pre-1.0.
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I actually cannot over-emphasize that if I lose my sight I will have nothing left. I might as well pack it up and apply for MAID because that'll be it for me.
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it was so bad i still have yet to do the wachumeqimeqi fisher quest bc i heard the whalaqee were in it
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and less prone to freak accidents.
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I have so many headcanons about how her family functions on both sides and their thoughts on tech and electrope and regulators that I could fill a whole doc.
One of the things they do is that the Tonawawta side kind of ages out of regulators. They usually stop wearing them once the kid is a teen -
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Nostalgia and Wayakkwe so we could see how mixed families of those cultures actually functioned, but it just means I get free reign over my half-Alexandrian/half-Tonawawta OC at least.
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Alexandria, at least from the Turali perspective, is basically just that but taken up to eleven, with some people preferring a more traditional approach to life despite its dangers and some fully embracing the Alexandrian lifestyle.
I really wish they would have delved a little bit more into
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I also feel like the theme of Shaaloani being "two groups of native people contending with an ideological split over technology" was a FANTASTIC way of foreshadowing Alexandria.
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motorcycles.
If you took colonialism out of the americas we'd still have to contend with technological advancements eventually and having that be what's going on in Xak Tural actually feels like a good way to approach it.
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Sometimes when this discourse happens I have to silently wonder to myself if they just think that if colonialism never happened, what do they think our cultures would look like? Even in super remote Mongolia where they still mostly live by traditional ways they have 5000 gigabit internet and -
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over. Instead its a situation where it's a group of cultures culture in (surprisingly amicable) disagreement over how advancements in technology should be handled. That makes it feel way better to me than it could have been.
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gonna defend them and find a cure because apparently cures they already knew about don't work on the Whalaqee for some reason it was a MESS.
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yeh it's admittedly been YEARS since I did them and I have switched mains since then but i distinctly remember the whole thing was about how a bunch of garleans gave the Whalaqee goods they'd infected with a disease so they could get their ceruleum and it was This Guy From Eorzea who was totally
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The easiest way to vet them is to ask if they've done the firmament questline lol.
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And this is why I am very careful about engaging with "Ishgard RP" despite my mains being Ishgardian.
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Ye I don't think there could be any perfect way to approach the topic but I honestly prefer this over the smallpox blankets we usually get (and that they did in the BLU questline).
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Honestly the cowboy thing is the the least offensive way they could have gone with it imho because at least that *was* a common profession Native men in the wild west did have lol. They made it just the right level of silly that it ended up hilariously charming.
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Like... like even beyond the fact that that's a wild statement to make to begin with, we had a whole set of cutscenes explaining that the yok huy went north HUNDREDS OF YEARS before the founding of tuliyollal and caught a disease from the native people there that they had no immunity to?????????
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So if you really, really, REALLY just need to fridge a woman for your Shaaloani cowboy's backstory and you won't just go with, like, divorce, make it cancer or something. Please don't contribute to the fetishization of our murders.
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These are extremely painful realities we deal with and live with. I live my life as a mixed Native (demi-)woman knowing that if I were murdered, nobody outside my people would search for me, and they would be actively impeded by non-Native police. I'd be written off. I'd be another red dress.
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Missing and Murdered Indigenous women, girls, and 2 spirit people is something we deal with at a higher rate than ANY other demographic in North America. Most is perpetrated by non-Native men. Alcoholism is endemic in our communities to the point that it's not allowed on some reserves.
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Recognizing it and earnestly aiming to do better means so much to me tbh.
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I once had to explain to someone why they can't use w*nd*go as a Tural Vidraal and I aged 7 years.
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YOU'RE the problem. I hate it.
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I feel this shit so keenly RN as a NDN because Dawntrail has given me so much representation to appreciate and engage with but everyone seems only interested in like... their same old storylines that are Really Fucking Nasty when superimposed on top of Native-coded men. And if you ever point it out
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I've been ousted from most Xak Tural based RP discords because I'm Native and they don't like being told their native-coded cowboy with a dead wife and daughter is Pretty Fucking Racist, actually. :)
"But it's a common trope, stop making something out of nothing".
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a pandemic and I'd love to know how they handled something like that. Do they have vaccines? How did the integration of the folks from Yyasulani go when being exposed to pathogens neither population had encountered before? I gotta know!