Hi, Kopt here.
I do not want to be seen as “a” or “the” good vulpera roleplayer, a notion I fear as if I had to be this sort of “Good One” with others, a sensation recurring within my circles.
There are other genuinely good people around that depart from me beyond the tangent of not being incredibly weird or disgusting in an OOC/IC manner.
Needless to say, there is a spectre of ERP that assaults most if not all caravan guilds, at times with extremely disgusting ideas or acts, and at others with extreme public exposure of such left and right, within and without IC.
And such aren’t deduced from canon, and should not be taken as a representation of any sort of vulpera ever (within the canon, IC).
An idea that people jokingly comment IC that has nothing to do with the race and how it was presented, a bunch of both disciplined and yet bloodthirsty foxes from Vol’dun, who do that what they can to survive. It’s exhausting.
I generally approach and appreciate the nature of more personal and romantic elements to any character, and exploring some sort of IRL identity or experience through roleplay seems unproblematic to me. But there is that, and there is the stream of (and I say this with a degree of bitterness), Sonic OC roleplayers, people who are connected to sides of the Furry Fandom that completely participate with or around the stigma of that people, and that even -before- their release had already influenced the way the race would end up being perceived, and even played as.
Over-the-top, hyper-special, ultra-trauma-ridden characters, constant allusions to sexual matters, fetishism, and other sorts of implications I would rather not mention here.
There is a post in COAD that worded it in a disgusting, and yet somewhat understandable way: They became a contention race for other communities of Worgen and Pandaren that had to deal with such stigma.
I will say I am tired of being pet IC as if my character was a pet or having private or sexual ideations floating around him many a time I try to roleplay with others, specially the less experienced sorts that take everything in roleplay for granted and valid.
