>>- Races. It seems that not enough folks out there, roleplay their
>>race, or believe that roleplaying their race consists of an above-mentioned
>>funny accent. Predjudices, food choices, clothing choices, fears,
>>racial superiority, emoted quirks, etc, can all make a race seem
>>more believable. Often times, races are just humans wearing funny
>>masks, if that.

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>But I haven't seen a lot of this kind of thing from most Arials I've
>interacted with. In fact I ususally can't tell that an Arial is an
>Arial without looking at their description. The only Arial I ever
>saw do anything like this was Kalmah, and I always liked it. Although
>he played the part of an Arial that was not full-blooded and therefore
>didn't have a beak, he used his wings a lot in roleplay. It always
>impressed me when he did that. Things like "Kalmah slows the beating
>of his wings and settles gracefully to the ground" or "Kalmah walks
>haltingly towards you" Then he would say something about not being
>used to walking on the ground because he preferred flying. There may
>be other Arials out there that do these kinds of things, but he is
>the only one I was ever priveleged to see do it.

I saw Kalmah do both those emotes long ago. This reminds me that my opinion of his constant use of the same emotes, is part of why I stopped using racially based emotes myself. He played up his emotes quite a bit, but otherwise seemed to behave just like anyone else. So, I've held off on arial based emotes for a long time, only using them when I felt they were appropriate or I was trying to make an IC point about species differences. Instead, I show race through philosophy and ways of thinking and behaving in general. Close examination of any race can give hints as to how that race might view the world, and I try to use that in my roleplay. If I'm too understated for others to realize what I'm doing, that just means I need more practice.