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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 703257" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>Ciaran: I hardly know how to respond to that.</p><p></p><p>Are you the sorta person that just finds cause to get offended over something whenever they can?</p><p></p><p>No, it is most certainly not a troll. It is a very honest post, and one that I hope is found thoughtful enough that one could avoid pigeon holing me with a sterotype.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>You haven't? That sounds kinda odd to me. Let's reverse that. Do you think you've ever known people who decided NOT to get romantically or sexually involved with a specific gender because of thier philosophy on life, moral or spiritual beliefs, or other aspect of thier character? Hmmm?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>What the hell are you talking about? Where in the blue blazes did that come from? Are we still having the same conversation?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Did I say there was? Why the heck should it matter? What do you know about my character other than what I just told you? What do you know about me? I'm not going to get drawn into any debate about what or why someone becomes homosexual. That is not the point of this thread or my post, and I'm not even going to voice an opinion on that subject even if I did think I had a definitive answer (and I don't). </p><p></p><p>The story of this character is not so simple as you seem to imagine that it is (sorta like life). He was an elf. He was brought up in a strict aristocratic household. His naturally rebelious nature led him into conflict with his parents. He was prone to running away. He was taken in, Oliver Twist like, by a Fagan who taught him various thiefly crafts. The energy and passion and the brief lives of humans fascinated him, especially when contrasted with the patient, passionless existance (or at least so he supposed) of his family. He spent his youth in a variaty of immoral pastimes. Part of his youth was spent in a brothel, as a 'fancy boy', and it is persumed by me that such a comely, effeminate appearing, lad would have attracted the attention of certain clientel in the rough port city he grew up in. Make of that what you will. I never explored what had happened or what he might have felt about the situation. Latter in the campaign he owned a brothel. Make of that what you will. In any event, the philosophy I developed for the character was one of extreme intellectual individualism - a sort of radically honest libertarianism. As such, childhood experiences or not, it would have been a complete betrayal of his character to assert that one 'ought not to do something if one wanted to' and I naturally upon reflection assumed that would most certainly include anything considered immoral. I tried to play the character as caught in a tension between believing that everyone had the right to do what they please, and that he had a right to do what he pleased regardless of what other people felt. And I think I succeeded.</p><p></p><p>Edit: Just took out your creative spelling to avoid the profanity filter.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 703257, member: 4937"] Ciaran: I hardly know how to respond to that. Are you the sorta person that just finds cause to get offended over something whenever they can? No, it is most certainly not a troll. It is a very honest post, and one that I hope is found thoughtful enough that one could avoid pigeon holing me with a sterotype. You haven't? That sounds kinda odd to me. Let's reverse that. Do you think you've ever known people who decided NOT to get romantically or sexually involved with a specific gender because of thier philosophy on life, moral or spiritual beliefs, or other aspect of thier character? Hmmm? What the hell are you talking about? Where in the blue blazes did that come from? Are we still having the same conversation? Did I say there was? Why the heck should it matter? What do you know about my character other than what I just told you? What do you know about me? I'm not going to get drawn into any debate about what or why someone becomes homosexual. That is not the point of this thread or my post, and I'm not even going to voice an opinion on that subject even if I did think I had a definitive answer (and I don't). The story of this character is not so simple as you seem to imagine that it is (sorta like life). He was an elf. He was brought up in a strict aristocratic household. His naturally rebelious nature led him into conflict with his parents. He was prone to running away. He was taken in, Oliver Twist like, by a Fagan who taught him various thiefly crafts. The energy and passion and the brief lives of humans fascinated him, especially when contrasted with the patient, passionless existance (or at least so he supposed) of his family. He spent his youth in a variaty of immoral pastimes. Part of his youth was spent in a brothel, as a 'fancy boy', and it is persumed by me that such a comely, effeminate appearing, lad would have attracted the attention of certain clientel in the rough port city he grew up in. Make of that what you will. I never explored what had happened or what he might have felt about the situation. Latter in the campaign he owned a brothel. Make of that what you will. In any event, the philosophy I developed for the character was one of extreme intellectual individualism - a sort of radically honest libertarianism. As such, childhood experiences or not, it would have been a complete betrayal of his character to assert that one 'ought not to do something if one wanted to' and I naturally upon reflection assumed that would most certainly include anything considered immoral. I tried to play the character as caught in a tension between believing that everyone had the right to do what they please, and that he had a right to do what he pleased regardless of what other people felt. And I think I succeeded. Edit: Just took out your creative spelling to avoid the profanity filter. [/QUOTE]
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