What race would YOU be?

Started by manipura, January 11, 2010, 03:41:44 PM

IRL, what would you say is the race you'd best describe yourself as?  Or the one you relate most with, either on a physical basis or a more behavioural/personality level? 

I, most certainly would be a half-elf.  Though shorter than average, I fit the bill physically.  And the traditional 'halfie struggle' of independence vs. acceptance...well I should say that pretty much sums up my entire existence.  I think I was born in the wrong time period or something; I always wondered why I had to be -here- (looks around at modern life as we know it) as opposed to living in a cabin in the woods, judging time simply by light and dark, not seconds and minutes, picking berries and thatching a roof.  A cabin or a grey stone house, I still sway back and forth on which I would like more. 

Speaking of time et cetera, anyone have a favourite day? 
I've gotta say, Detal really kicks ass....

I would be an elf, I'm sneaky and think only of myself.

Plus I rip people off for a living and make a good living doing it too.

I would be an elf Merchant, all the way.

Besides human, I'd probably be a dwarf. I'm very fixated on certain goals. And my favorite Arm day is Nekrete, for various reasons.
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Mantis.
どんと来い、生活の悪循環!!1!11
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Quote from: Cavaticus on January 11, 2010, 03:54:01 PM
Dragon.

Human dragon-rider for me.

Wait, that sounded wrong.
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I'm gonna go all Gimfalisette on you guys and lay down some numbers.


I would be a halfling.

I am small, wise, and cannibalistic.


Quote from: Yam on January 11, 2010, 04:00:16 PM
I would be a halfling.

I am small, wise, and cannibalistic.

He is pretty fun-sized.
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Oh my god he's still rocking the sandwich.

Lots of races represented so far....no muls though, or half-giants...?  Anyone know a mantis-type? -tilts her head to the side, deep in thought-
C'mon, I know you're out there...

Avangion. 

I am Mr. Cavaticus' nemesis.
Eastman: he came out of the east to do battle with The Amazing Rando!

Elf.. VEEEEERY lazy... and I dont like to pay for things..
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A boring, good old-fashioned human.
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Quote from: manonfire on November 04, 2013, 08:11:36 AM
The secret to great RP is having the balls to be weird and the brains to make it eloquent.

Have to be human.  I'm too spastic to be anything else.
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Half-elf. I realized that this race perfectly reflects the Asian-American experience.
A foreign presence contacts your mind.

a silt horror... because my tentacles are an aphrodisiac. 

:-*

When I'm on an active research project, gith.

A mul, because I'm sterile and angry and bald.
And I vanish into the dark
And rise above my station

Half-elven breed bastard.
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Quote from: brytta.leofaLaura, did weird tribal men follow you around at age 15?
If by weird tribal men you mean Christians then yes.

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She was teabagging me.

My own mother.

True Giant, because I'm actually 100 feet tall IRL and like to stomp on small villages.
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Quote from: Niamh on January 11, 2010, 05:50:37 PM
Avangion.  

I am Mr. Cavaticus' nemesis.

With the number of times you`ve defiled?   :o

I'd be a Galith
Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.

Quote from: Fathi on January 12, 2010, 12:48:26 AM
A mul, because I'm sterile and angry and bald.

lemmie get them digits yo

January 12, 2010, 02:05:49 AM #31 Last Edit: January 12, 2010, 02:38:31 AM by Ampere
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January 12, 2010, 02:12:39 AM #32 Last Edit: January 12, 2010, 02:19:46 AM by Mr.B
Having just read the OP's question, I'd have to say human, because I most physically, emotionally and mentally resemble a human, which isn't too bad because Humans dominate both Earth, and Zalanthas.. brutally, much of the time.
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January 12, 2010, 02:22:31 AM #34 Last Edit: January 12, 2010, 03:17:41 AM by HTX
uh... human? I guess.

SPACE VESTRIC.
Rickey's Law: People don't want "A story". They want their story.

Half-elf.

I like being the outsider.
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Oh my god he's still rocking the sandwich.

Everyone that said "half-elf" is emo.
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H. L. Mencken

Quote from: Reverend Green on January 12, 2010, 05:57:50 AM
Everyone that said "half-elf" is emo.

No one thinks you're cute.


You're a skeet.

Quote from: Yam on January 12, 2010, 06:28:55 AM
Quote from: Reverend Green on January 12, 2010, 05:57:50 AM
Everyone that said "half-elf" is emo.

No one thinks you're cute.


You're a skeet.

I'm a mushroom-covered gurth.
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H. L. Mencken

Kank. Because I'm the mode of transportation for my kids some days, it feels like.
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A glossy, black-shelled mantis says, in insectoid-accented sirihish,
  "You haven't picked enough cotton, friend."
Choose thy fate:

Quote from: deviant storm on January 12, 2010, 06:45:04 AM
Kank. Because I'm the mode of transportation for my kids some days, it feels like.

That, and because you're extinct?
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H. L. Mencken

Human - and I would totalyl seek the destruction of all other races, starting with elves.

If not elf, due to physical features, then a half-elf due to my personality.

Half elf.  A little good at this, a little good at that, but not especially accepted by anyone.

If I could play gortok in game, I would.  Just roaming around, trying to gather a pack, and eating noobs.  Nomnomnom.

And I love Waleuk.
You'll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villany.  Except for maybe Allanak."

-Anonymous

Half-elf.

I always 'want' to fit in and be accepted. But damned if I'll change anything about myself for others. I'm the only one who has to live with me all my life. If they don't like me, fuck 'em.   *wanders off into breedly isolation*

Favorite day: Barani. I can't say why, it's too recent and too IC.
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Except me. I remember every death. And I am coming for you bastards.

I'd have to be a mantis I guess.. totaly feared by just about everything that looks at them, constantly sillent and giving off little real emotion except to get the job done. (except in private with my own kind)  That and I'm a leader.. who wants no followers..  may you cringe under the might on my psionic chittering.. 

By the way Mantis-claus was awsome this year... did anyone else get a visit from the green-shelled mantis wearing a red hat, riding in a sliegh pulled by eight tiny flying kanks?  Turns out I was a good PC this year... I love you Imms.. (chuckles)

And you're right Detal is the best day of the week.. for personal reasons.
The glowing Nessalin Nebula flickers eternally overhead.
This Angers The Shade of Nessalin.


Elf.
"Don't take life too seriously, nobody ever makes it out alive anyway."

An elf. It's all about the family (tribe) but damn am I one selfish little fuck at times. I do enjoy stealing to.


A staff member sends you:
"Normally we don't see a <redacted> walk into a room full of <redacted> and start indiscriminately killing."

You send to staff:
"Welcome to Armageddon."

I would be a human, and so would all of you... because thats what you actually are. You are all humans.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

Quote from: Dan on January 15, 2010, 05:09:18 AM
I would be a human, and so would all of you... because thats what you actually are. You are all humans.
How do you know? Pssh.

i cant get a your mom joke work on this race thing
some of my posts are serious stuff

Quote from: Dan on January 15, 2010, 05:09:18 AM
I would be a human, and so would all of you... because thats what you actually are. You are all humans.

Swirling currents of psychedelic colors surround the curly hair, tattooed silt horror.

With a *poof* Dan turns into a hairless tregil and scurries off into the underbrush

With a *poof* your mom turns into a hairless tregil and scurries off into the underbrush.

I guess I'd be human. I'm a completely ordinary human...
Just -real- fuckin' lucky.
Live like God.
Love like God.

"Don't let life be your burden."
- Some guy, Twin Warriors

Elf.

We all play games of deception with each other and with ourselves.

Elves see the game and play it better.
Now you're looking for the secret. But you won't find it because of course, you're not really looking. You don't really want to work it out. You want to be fooled.

My extreme paranoia would make me an elf, but I have a conscience that gives me a hard time whenever it happens that I take advantage of someone. Not too hard of a time, though. So, yeah, an elf :). Pity I'm not tall.

Gith
I seduced the daughters of men
And made the death of them.
I demanded human sacrifices
From the rest of them.
I became the spirit that haunted
And protected them.
And I lived in the tower of flame
But death collected them.
-War is my Destiny, Ill Bill

Gith
A gaunt, yellow-skinned gith shrieks in fear, and hauls ass.
Lizzie:
If you -want- me to think that your character is a hybrid of a black kryl and a white push-broom shaped like a penis, then you've done a great job

Why, cause you're all long armed, yellow skinned, saw toothed cannibals?

I CHOOSE YOU! PIKACHU!! Whoops, wrong thread......

I'd be a halfling. Badass, and short.
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Dammit Kol you made me laugh too.
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A staff member sends:
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Ask staff for the gith RP docs sometime, you will get it then. Assuming they give them up.
A gaunt, yellow-skinned gith shrieks in fear, and hauls ass.
Lizzie:
If you -want- me to think that your character is a hybrid of a black kryl and a white push-broom shaped like a penis, then you've done a great job

Yam is a halfling ... seriously!!!
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Oh my god he's still rocking the sandwich.


I'm a dwarf, hands down, my height non-withstanding.
Its the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fiiiiiine.


Elf.

Family loyalty for sure.
Anonymous:  I don't get why magickers are so amazingly powerful in Arm.

Anonymous:  I mean... the concept of making one class completely dominating, and able to crush any other class after 5 days of power-playing, seems ridiculous to me.

breed, cause i'm a mudblood.
The funny little foreign man

I often hear the jingle to -Riunite on ice- when I read the estate name Reynolte, eve though there ain't no ice in Zalanthas.

Quote from: Thorg on January 12, 2010, 02:16:42 AM
Scrab

Come on guys, I can't be the only one!


Gotta get me some boots!

That pic, just for reference, is a Dark-sun scrab. Not a Zalanthan scrab.

Scrabs in game are defined as looking like beetles. That looks more like a Cilops.

Quote from: RogueGunslinger on February 02, 2010, 04:07:03 PM
That pic, just for reference, is a Dark-sun scrab. Not a Zalanthan scrab.

Scrabs in game are defined as looking like beetles. That looks more like a Cilops.

It's probably a good thing our scrabs are divorced from their origins, Dark Sun scrabs had a ~30% chance of understanding elven and lower chances of actually having character classes! On the topic of scrabs however, while recently smoking a 'jazz cigarette' I felt inspired:

QuoteI loot two boots in the morning,
I loot two boots at night,
I loot two boots in the afternoon, it makes me feel alright,
I loot two boots off of rangers, and two off warriors,
I loot two boots before I loot two boots,
And then I loot two more,

A city-elf once told me, "scrab you'll kill me dead,"
And some dwarf he once told me "I'm gonna bake the best scrab-meat bread",
But, then one day I met a man on an erdlu, and this is what he said:
"Hunting good, and hunting fine but first the mantis head."
*beep*


I've got the body type of an elf with exceptional strength.

IE: I'm gangly, tall, and stronger than I look.

Human personality.

I fall into the range of human stats. As well as human personality.

AND SO DO ALL OF YOU! YOUR ALL HUMANS!
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

I'd retract my human statement and replace it with halfling.
A tall halfling with exceptional strength, poor agility, extremely good endurance, and average wisdom.
Live like God.
Love like God.

"Don't let life be your burden."
- Some guy, Twin Warriors

A hairy mul for sure. 

Usually quiet and timid but people tend to be afraid of me at first. However, I don't rage nearly as much of course ;)

Quote from: Dan on February 02, 2010, 09:49:53 PM
I fall into the range of human stats. As well as human personality.

AND SO DO ALL OF YOU! YOUR ALL HUMANS!

I'd be a duck.

Definitely a duck.

Brandon
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brandon....

you did the biggest mistake of your life


Cacti..........

I haven't moved for a decade now.

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Cacti..........

I haven't moved for a decade now.

Cacti are actually mobile, muahaha.

Maybe you're a ginka vine.
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We don't get very many visitors where I grow...Still a cacti.  Waiting......for YOU!

A one-eyed, one-horned, flying purple people eater.
Quote from: Fnord on November 27, 2010, 01:55:19 PM
May the fap be with you, always. ;D

Okay fine.

Im an angsty half-breed.

*weeps in self-loathing*
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

Man eating potato monkey, thats it.
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Dammit Kol you made me laugh too.
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A staff member sends:
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Fnord told me once I was a desert elf.
Quote from: manonfire on November 04, 2013, 08:11:36 AM
The secret to great RP is having the balls to be weird and the brains to make it eloquent.

Quote from: Ourla on February 07, 2010, 04:20:25 PM
Fnord told me once I was a desert elf.

I can see it.
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A half elf merchant, actually.

Quote from: Thorg on February 02, 2010, 04:17:00 PMIt's probably a good thing our scrabs are divorced from their origins, Dark Sun scrabs had a ~30% chance of understanding elven and lower chances of actually having character classes! On the topic of scrabs however, while recently smoking a 'jazz cigarette' I felt inspired:
You'd be surprised that scrabs aren't as different as you think.
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