[OOC] The Guild

[Torack]

@aviendha I edited the post! Sorry for the delay, guys!

Eyy! Seventh member coming soon! That's awesome!

[aviendha]

I responded- she's pulling out all the stops now, lmao.

(that was a music joke so it's funny, I swear...)

Also, really looking forward to meeting the seventh member!!! (PS- It would be really great if we could get a dwarf...)

[Torack]

Kaito's gonna go ham on this too. He knows what's coming, but he's not going down without some blood on his swords, you know. It's gon be epic!

[SaintRice]

Dope, I'm up and I'll have a post down, hopefully in the next four hours. Unfortunately have class and a hangover right now.

[Bell]

Yeah a Dwarf would be nice but she already has a character in mind xD

Inb4 opening up character profiles specifically to anyone who will play a Dwarf as an eigth member.

[SaintRice]

Okay, I can start working on my post now. Also, I could play anything but a dwarf, for some reason, it's very hard for me to empathize with the personality traits of a dwarf.

[aviendha]

I've always assumed dwarves are a monogendered race, where their reproductive organs don't matter, and everyone grows magnificent beards. My first idea for a character for this RP was actually a dwarf- one whose primary occupation was as a barber, until her shop got destroyed by a gang, then she became a rogue fighter, her main weapon being a pair of shears. However, I like playing defense better, so I changed my mind.

[Torack]

I always found a little disconcerting how female dwarves also have beards. What would differentiate them during their development if they have so much testosterone to give them such massive beards? Or would their testosterone come in after puberty or after a certain age when they don't need estrogen anymore? Unnecessary details when it comes to fantasy races, I know, but it just gets to me when fantasy races have certain unexplainable characteristics, innit.

[aviendha]

@Torack That's why I said monogendered- there are plenty of animals out there that have genders that do not in any way mimic the supposed binary imposed by Western societal convention. Chromosomes and hormones themselves don't work on a binary system. To measure the length and shape of a chromosome to determine gender is actually an inexact science, hence the existence of intersex people, and people with extra or too few chromosomes. Progesterone, estrogen, testosterone, oxytocin, vasopressin, and I'm probably forgetting some. Each hormone contributes to different processes within the human body; for example, an increase in testosterone is one of the factors which brings about the painful part of the menstrual cycle. Dwarves, I'm supposing, would have an entirely different set of hormones, or different levels than humans altogether. Really low levels of estrogen and testosterone, and other hormones that contribute to growth, at a young age, which only increase as puberty ends, with high levels of testosterone for all, idk. Hell, I'm guessing entirely different hormones are there to start with for dwarves, and that for them, facial hair is not a secondary sex characteristic, just a characteristic of all dwarves.

[Torack]

Oh no, I wasn't looking at it in a "conventional" manner, I was just curious how the hormones functioned to get the dwarves to have beards. But it does make sense how they would have a totally different set and levels of hormones, particularly the growth hormone. Hehe.

But from an evolutionary view, how would they conceive? I'm guessing they'd be able to differentiate a female from a male? I'm getting too bogged down in this, allow it lol

[aviendha]

Look up how other mammalian species reproduce- you'll find that there are actually very, very few species that follow the male/female binary.

[Torack]

Oh, I know that. I'm actually curious what they do if isn't the binary method? I heard somewhere they're not even conceived, but sort of just pop out of mountains lol

[aviendha]

There are loads of different mythologies surrounding dwarven births- I'm a fan of the popping out of mountains one too, lmao.

[Bell]

World of Warcraft earthen are pretty cool I think. Molded and born from stone.

[SaintRice]

Yeah, I like the idea that dwarves are crafted by their parents or some shit.

[aviendha]

Reminds me of this:

[Torack]

@aviendha The first thing that came to me was that! I loved that scene, hella funny. Had me chuckling.

[Torack]

whoops accidentally wrote the IC post here. Oh, god.

[SaintRice]

Shit, I forgot to mention Damiann @Damiann47

[Damiann47]

Gotta say, didn't expect Garath and Silvia to mesh pretty well like this. Just chilling under the sun while watching a samurai and shadows fight each other.