EVE Fiction

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.

I primarily just want to know that I'm not breaking lore or creating some abomination from an ooc perspective. As in, its something the players could see as a plausible happening. I'm aware that some Amarr purists would be absolutely horrified to know my character existed.

Since Minmatar can often be of mixed ancestry (comes up in quite a few Minmatar-centric Chronicles), since the Nefantar, Starkmanir and Thukker tribes are currently facing a rocky potential reintegration into the Republic, and since CCP has provided us with some sexy Nefantar ship SKINs, it would not be difficult at all.

The biggest problem would be justifying your character's education in a Minmatar institution. Perhaps your character attempted to re-integrate but faced persecution from their fellow Minmatar since they practiced the Amarr faith despite their freedmen status. Perhaps they gave up on the idea and returned to where they felt they belonged, among and subservient to the faithful. You could fly Amarr ships, or put Nefantar SKINs on your Minmatar ships to maintain that Golden Fleet aesthetic.

Playing a race traitor has already been done. You might catch some (in-character) flak from Minmatar RPers (or at least, those who are not aware of the problems the Nefantar are facing during their attempts to reintegrate into the Republic), but I can't imagine you will find many critics among the Amarr and Caldari RPers.

First: Do you want to play Ammatar, or Nefantar? I take it you've read your lore from the way that you post, but just to make this sure - you want to be of those still aligned to the Amarr, or those who have returned to the Tribes?

Second: I don't see why not, either way. It is roleplay, you can explain away your starting corporation if you so wish, or just completely ignore it just as well. At least I don't much care if you come from the RMS but claim to be taught by the Amarr. It's your choice anyway.