I'm obviously increasingly frustrated with real life events, as my last post showed. I try to avoid drinking too deeply from the firehose of information, specifically to avoid allowing myself to get worked up by all of the things going wrong in our society, often disastrously. And there are so many catastrophes either ongoing, or having gotten to the point that their happening is inevitable to choose from.
For this reason, I often dive into diversions and hobbies.
I've kind of enjoyed starting up my recordings for SWTOR. I created a stylish, "smuggler-looking" Jedi Knight; a Mirialan swashbuckler with ash-colored hair. I've only recorded a few missions; not even enough to upload to YouTube yet, but I'm already enjoying it. I went and played around with the character creator, although I didn't create any characters, I set up parameters for the additional characters that I will do. I decided that none of them will be human (at least not yet) although that's a bit of a fudge on the cyborg character; all of the cyborgs are human, just with some gadgets attached to their faces. This will probably be what I record, although I reserve the right to tweak a few details as I go down the line.
Jedi Sentinel: Mirialan male, swashbuckler "smuggler" type outfit.
Jedi Sage: Rattataki male, gray "ninja"-like outfit (still working on exactly how to do this)
Scoundrel: Sith trueblood male. He'll have a typical "smuggler" outfit (which I don't associate with smugglers; it's just casual space clothes) and no facial droopy things.
Vanguard: A body type 3 Chiss fellow. Good and alien without being overly so.
Sith Juggernaut: Curiously, although I'm going to make this guy a zabrak (Republic style) he looks not dissimilar to a regular white guy; just with a few horns pasted on his forehead.
Sith Sorcerer: my only female character, a Mirialan. I might end up changing that race, though.
Operative: Imperial style zabrak. Male.
Mercenary: white guy cyborg with "sunglasses" eyes as his cybernetics. I'll probably dress him more as a space gunfighter than as a Mandalorian style heavily armored guy. Also, big body type 3 like the trooper. I'll never use the skinny runt 1 or the Chubba the Hutt type 4, but these two characters will be my first attempts to move off of body type 2.
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It occurs to me that using the cyborg options that have their eyes replaced is graphically not really very different than a few of the more "technical" Miraluka masks. I went ahead and bought the unlocks for twi'lek and miraluka even though I don't like either race, but I can see doing a miraluka and just treating him as a human.
Although I don't know what "treating" him looks like. It's not like you can do anything with your character other than what the game allows you to, and I don't think that there's any miraluka specific dialogue of any kind.
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