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Hello,

New to EVE and I've been looking around what lore sources I could find and trying to locate the player bases views to see what was acceptable for RP in EVE. Despite searching everywhere (at least it feels like that), I have not been able to find anything that definitively states how players would feel about someone roleplaying an Ammatar, but making a Minmatar to do so.

I understand that the Ammatar have essentially had their culture become indistinguishable from that of Amarr's, the character I'm hoping to make would embrace the Amarr way of life fully. My reasoning for wanting to use a Minmatar character opposed to an Amarr character is because of one simple thing - customization options.

I like to make my character's look like me as much as possible, and every so often a game will have a race who's ideals match up with me to T (the Amarr) but for whatever reason, they either cannot have darker skin tones or coarse hair. As I'm sure many of the more experience EVE players are aware, the Minmatar have the only Dreadlock hair option and the darkest skin tones available.

I don't know how genetics are set to work in this game, but I tend to rely on conventional science that states dark skin overrides lighter skin. I find it difficult to believe that the Ammatar would not have some among their people who still held prominent Minmatar features or a mix, which Is really what I want to go for.

I'd like my character to have father who was True Amarrian and mother who was of strictly Ammatar decent. Why you might ask, to pay homage to my own life, being that I am a multiracial individual. Not to worry, while I do make an advent attempt to make my character resemble myself as much as possible. I do so within the confines and parameters of the particular game's lore that I am dealing with. I am a very apathetic individual in real life so mixing my character's feelings with mine has never been an issue - I can separate ooc from ic.

That said, the question is: how much would I get shunned by the rp community if I did this? I want a character with Dreadlocks and brown skin, but who is loyal to the Amarr, is of both Ammatar and True Amarrian decent. Of course, the true Amarrian side of his family has essentially disowned him, but I would really like to know what the communities thoughts are on this before I go ahead and do it.

In anticipation of this thread getting moved to the appropriate place I'll answer fully.

Ammatar are a completely legit choice to roleplay as. There's even a very talented and experienced RPer who roleplays as a former slave that was emancipated and still flies for Amarr. I myself play a half caldari half amarr character. No one will shun you as a player for choosing an interesting and perfectly reasonable idea, but as Vess pointed out In-Character other characters may respond both positively and negatively to your character's stance. This is a good thing as conflict leads to content and character growth.

Feel free to hang around on eve fiction, poke the other players in the channels "OOC" and "out of character" ingame.

(( Heed the Samira. The Samira is wise and terrible. Also evil and a bads, but heed nonetheless. Just stay clear of the Out Of Character channel, it's frankly cancerous. The OOC channel has at least some token moderation and slightly higher quality floor, but I'm still not banned from there yet so it's not by much.

For questions on Amarr/Ammatar roleplay, you will find plenty of good information there, and from individuals like Samira that has experience with the sort of cross-faction foibles such RP might entail.

Welcome to Eve, you poor little thing. ))

Yuk! Vile weak minded Ammatar! *stares at you with daggers*

((In seriousness, I personally would welcome this form of RP. Though I myself am new to RP in EVE, I would find it a shame if people didn't explore all viable options. So please join us...so I can shoot at you .))

I want to thank everyone for all the great and amazing feedback. You guys really made me feel welcome and this an awesome first time interaction with the community on the forums. Means the world - truly. That said, my apologies go out to CCP and the community for posting this thread in the wrong section. I read it fast and thought it was for all matters pertaining to [RP]

Thanks again everyone!

I've read in the newspapers, that some Tribal social commentators, on Minmatar social media, have loudly and repeatedly condemned all such forms of "role play", and that any establishments catering to such fantasies should be closed down. Scenarios such as "Ammatar Overseer and Feisty Slave", or "Amarr Lady and Lustful Slave", are considered "immoral", and "damaging to the development of young Minmatar", and that any pleasure hubs operating such scenarios should be raided by the Republic Security Service, as they are probably some kind of psy-op by the Amarr Empire.

Moved to EVE Fiction since this is an OOC thread

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