3. Real life elf?

Real life elf?


  • @0eaab7f467=Emerwyn:

    If you think about it, even being a gamer was a taboo and frowned upon not so long ago. Ten years ago when you told some friends "not going out tonight, got a scheduled event in Neverwinter Nights", some would look at you like you were a weird creature, and your elders would think you were into some kind of satanic sect you badly needed to get out of, for your own good, because video-games were eating your mind and so much time in front of a screen would make you blind in a few months.

    But nowadays, whose mother doesn't spend some good time playing Farmerama or posting stuff in Facebook on daily basis?

    Times change, and that change has to start somewhere. Whether that change is good or bad… who's to say? History will tell, when it's objectively analysed in the future.

    Theres a BIG difference though… I can be a gamer but I can also go to a job, the store, or anywhere in public and people don't KNOW what I do. "being a gamer" is not as obvious to friends or strangers as having plastic surgery and permanently changing the way your ears look.


  • If you think about it, even being a gamer was a taboo and frowned upon not so long ago. Ten years ago when you told some friends "not going out tonight, got a scheduled event in Neverwinter Nights", some would look at you like you were a weird creature, and your elders would think you were into some kind of satanic sect you badly needed to get out of, for your own good, because video-games were eating your mind and so much time in front of a screen would make you blind in a few months.

    But nowadays, whose mother doesn't spend some good time playing Farmerama or posting stuff in Facebook on daily basis?

    Times change, and that change has to start somewhere. Whether that change is good or bad… who's to say? History will tell, when it's objectively analysed in the future.


  • @ec0b60f687=Ace-of-Spades:

    @ec0b60f687=M_O_B:

    1. They didn't use to be… maybe she's a pioneer of elf ears like people who used to get tattoos a long time ago!

    I'd disagree with this statement simply because tattoos have been around for centuries, hell…longer. They've been frowned upon in more recent times by "sophisticated" societies.

    Well they were forgotten about for nearly a millenium in Europe and the Middle East since all the Abrahamic religions forbid their followers from getting them. Only since the 20th century have they come back, and they started off as being attributed to sailors, criminals, etc., but because of people getting tattoos in the 20th century they're now quite accepted today.


  • @5a1ca8647f=Emerwyn:

    @5a1ca8647f=Gonnar:

    People is not born with pointy ears, and people is not born with tatooed skins.
    And she will never regret, I'm fairly sure of that 😃

    Heheh, think of how many people had to regret tattooing the name of the love of their life across a whole arm, or even their back/chest, just to see how that eternal love ended abruptly when they got cheated on and left in the cold for someone else.

    It's actually considered taboo in the Tattooing society to get the name of a girlfriend/boyfriend/wife/husband in a tattoo for that very reason. Family members, children, etc. are considered okay though. This probably isn't known very well outside that circle, so ill-informed naive tattoo enthusiasts often make this mistake.

    @5a1ca8647f=M_O_B:

    1. They didn't use to be… maybe she's a pioneer of elf ears like people who used to get tattoos a long time ago!

    I'd disagree with this statement simply because tattoos have been around for centuries, hell…longer. They've been frowned upon in more recent times by "sophisticated" societies.


  • @b1f84897b4=Clan:

    There are 2 differences between a chest tattoo and Vulcan ears:

    1. tattoos are commonplace in society. Its rare that they actually ahock anyone anymore.

    2. you can put a shirt on and no one knows except you

    Modifying your ears is somehi g that's harder to hide and obviously (this thread as evidence) an oddity that people find exceptional.

    I think she has limited the scope of her professional life much more than someone with a tattoo. Perhaps she's fine with that. She seems too young to have made that decision already. :🤷:

    1. They didn't use to be… maybe she's a pioneer of elf ears like people who used to get tattoos a long time ago!

    2. Not exactly true... I have a chest tattoo and you can see it through white business shirts

    Yeah she has maybe limited the scope of her professional life... people tell me that about my tattoos. But I bet she cares as much as I do about it... which is not at all.

  • Legion

    There you go.

    Although she looks 14. I'd be asking for ID that's for sure!

    As weird as it is, it's not as brutal to her looks as becoming a cat person or an anime girl is.


  • Well, I look at it this way. Melynda Moon is 23 years old, and that means that she's old enough to bring new life into the world without anyone's consent, pilot a spaceship to Mars, or shoot an enemy of her nation with a rifle.

    She just took some cosmetic surgery that looks like it might be reversible to some degree.

  • Legion

    @587817f66a=Clan:

    I think she has limited the scope of her professional life much more than someone with a tattoo. Perhaps she's fine with that. She seems too young to have made that decision already. :🤷:

    Yep.

    In Australia you have to be over 18 to get a tatoo, but I'm wondering if that includes elf ear surgery?


  • There are 2 differences between a chest tattoo and Vulcan ears:

    1. tattoos are commonplace in society. Its rare that they actually ahock anyone anymore.

    2. you can put a shirt on and no one knows except you

    Modifying your ears is somehi g that's harder to hide and obviously (this thread as evidence) an oddity that people find exceptional.

    I think she has limited the scope of her professional life much more than someone with a tattoo. Perhaps she's fine with that. She seems too young to have made that decision already. :🤷:


  • @3acf580ac5=Emerwyn:

    @3acf580ac5=Gonnar:

    People is not born with pointy ears, and people is not born with tatooed skins.
    And she will never regret, I'm fairly sure of that 😃

    Heheh, think of how many people had to regret tattooing the name of the love of their life across a whole arm, or even their back/chest, just to see how that eternal love ended abruptly when they got cheated on and left in the cold for someone else.

    My old tattooist tattoos every girlfriend's name on himself, it's a weird matter of pride for him now haha.

    As for the elf girl… it doesn't hurt anyone else, so she can be an elf all she wants!


  • @5bbc21dc9f=Gonnar:

    People is not born with pointy ears, and people is not born with tatooed skins.
    And she will never regret, I'm fairly sure of that 😃

    Heheh, think of how many people had to regret tattooing the name of the love of their life across a whole arm, or even their back/chest, just to see how that eternal love ended abruptly when they got cheated on and left in the cold for someone else.

    Acknowledging that there is a threshold for everything, and that each of us is free to choose where to set that threshold, I am of the opinion that if you only do things that pass the "what if tomorrow…" filters, you end up doing nothing. Might as well never fall in love either, just in case you end up heartbroken.

    This elf-girl, I don't know if she'll regret it in future, but if I had to guess I'd say that she's quite enjoying the present and that for her that's being worth it.

  • G

    I see no difference between making your ears pointy edged, and tatooing yourself "LoTR" in your ribs.

    People is not born with pointy ears, and people is not born with tatooed skins.
    And she will never regret, I'm fairly sure of that 😃

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    Legion

    I felt I was a dwarf in a human's body… so I grew a beard. Much easier. 🙂


  • I've heard of men or women being trapped in the body of the opposite gender, but to think you're a fictional race trapped in another body(/race?)? That's stretching things a bit I feel.

    To each their own though. I find some body modification weird, but if it's what people want to do…it's their bodies. They do look pretty good...but you can achieve the same effect without permanent modification too.

    ...and, what Dwin said.


  • I think she'll regret it one day when she grows up.

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    @066cee1de6:

    Humm… i know she might be trying to look like na elf, but im quite sure most people she´ll pass by on the street will look at her and think she´s after that vulcan look, like Spock from Star Trekk.

    Actually, I think she looks more like Luna Lovegood from the Harry Potter movies, minus the ears, of course.

    AubreyMaturin

  • ICC

    Humm… i know she might be trying to look like na elf, but im quite sure most people she´ll pass by on the street will look at her and think she´s after that vulcan look, like Spock from Star Trekk.

  • Legion

    @b5d93074e9=Attentus:

    'enhanced life form'.

    Yeah but elf is a base race, not an acquired template.


  • 'enhanced life form'.

  • Legion

    Bah. Silicone can't give you a +2 Dex bonus. It's about as silly as a black man changing his race to that of a white person or an Asian getting surgery to westernize their eyes. Better to love who you are I reckon.

    Would permanent cosplay affect your employment prospects?

    It does look cool though.