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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6599354" data-attributes="member: 2067">Entertainers.Mistrusted, considered thieves and scoundrels, uncomfortable around others.They're actors. Musicians. Artists. They're thieves and connivers. They are that girl your mother warned you about, that boy with the rakish charm, the intense eyes, and the aura of danger. Dating pool? It's hard to date a tiefling. Easy to sleep with one, usually, but hard to have a relationship with one, and nearly impossible to marry one. Something about a fear of oaths and contracts, you see. Always committed to a higher master, one might say. Most tieflings are romantically entangled more with humans than with other tieflings (if only because other tieflings are rare), and even if they FOUND another tiefling, they'd be as mistrusting as any human, most of the time. They know how hard it is to struggle against their natures, firsthand.A good-looking new tiefling enters town and the native population gets suspicious. Angry. Especially if he's in good standing somewhere. What, he thinks he's better than us? Like his horns don't curl, like his eyes don't flash with fire? Like he's somehow escaped the thing that haunts each tiefling, marks them like a stain? Who does he think he is? Oh, maybe we'd all be better off if we all went and swore loyalty to his patron, is that it? It is the fury of jealousy mixed with suspicion, of course, but for that it is all the more vicious. Of course, he's still a good-looking young tiefling. And the young tiefling ladies already have a "reputation." And if he's in good standing, maybe he's got prospects. Maybe the ladies chase him, quietly compete amongst themselves for a dalliance with this stranger. Maybe he's good looking that even a few human ladies of the more rakish sort would risk a dalliance with him....though of course, no one could ever find out...it'd simply ruin them, socially....So if he wants to get in good with the local tiefling population, he's going to have to show that he's one of them, that he's a magnificent bastard, an admirable cad who knows and respects those he shares this accursed blood with. Humiliate a lord, steal from a manor house, bed the mayor's daughter, be everything that the other races hate and despise - and share that story, that experience, that haul, with the tieflings. Buy them a round of drinks at the shadiest bar in town...but only after you've proven that you're not some hoity-toity nob. That's how I'd play it. But for me, tieflings will always be Sigilian, which means they'll always be socially low, which means, in part, the only men good enough for their daughters are the ones who are good to their fellow-sufferers, and bad enough to make the well-to-do crap their tights. At least, that's for the ones that get some influence in their daughters' choice of partners - their daughters are tieflings, too, and they're as impossible to control as their wild sons.</blockquote>

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