Where did the Lalafell hate originate?

[CupDeNoodles]

I think it started way back in Final Fantasy XI. Back then Tarutaru were based in Windurst, a nature/magic city full of cat girls and short people. It was filled with cheery upbeat music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnP16Ypf4l4) and a bunch of Ned Flanders type speech coming from the Tarutaru NPCs that made them come off as having speech impediments. One Tarutaru comes to mind, coughshantottocough, who was especially annoying with her rhymes. But god damn they could fart out some good magic damage.

But I must admit, XIV's versions are a bit less annoying overall.

[Skivvy]

I think it started way back in Final Fantasy XI. Back then Tarutaru were based in Windurst, a nature/magic city full of cat girls and short people. It was filled with cheery upbeat music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnP16Ypf4l4) and a bunch of Ned Flanders type speech coming from the Tarutaru NPCs that made them come off as having speech impediments. One Tarutaru comes to mind, coughshantottocough, who was especially annoying with her rhymes. But god damn they could fart out some good magic damage.

But I must admit, XIV's versions are a bit less annoying overall.

She did love her curses and mischief. Shantotto was always my favorite troublemaker.

[Mysticales]

Yet us true XIers.. We battled hard FOR THE WARP TARU!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFDMiq_EWMc

[JonBigwood]

I think lalas are very cute and funny, I like how they walk and run, the childish movements (but wouldn't choose as my character as they don't look very hero-like.) I don't think there is hate, but there are jokes as some villain NPC are lalafell, and the race is funny. Gear does not look well on them, and sometimes it is difficult to distinguish males and females (especially NPC), this is not a good thing. Maybe for PVP they are more difficult to target and that is an advantage.

On the other hand, usually lalafell players are good players.

[Soraki-Muppe]

Been there, done that. With my Elezen alt.

I figure it must make healer duty easier if you have a bird's-eye view of the battle....

Usually being a tank in these situation I feel more like a irresponsible adult running away from kids right into a pack of angry monsters.

[Iscah]

sometimes it is difficult to distinguish males and females (especially NPC), this is not a good thing.

It's actually easier to tell NPCs apart - not because of their appearance, but because of their names! All four gender/clan combinations have a distinct name pattern. (Sometimes the clans get mixed up, but not the genders.)

Plainsfolk male: rhyming names - Alka Zolka, Pipin Tarupin

Plainsfolk female: three syllables, second repeated - Dewlala, Melkoko

Dunesfolk male: four sylables, first repeated - Lolorito, Gegeruju
* "N" can act as a separate syllable in Japanese, which is what the names are built on, so some names like Papashan seem to have three syllables but still fit the pattern.

Dunesfolk female: three syllables, first repeated - Tataru, Nanamo


TL;DR: a Lalafell with a three-syllable name is almost certainly female.

[Alucard135]

They run away from my fat chocobo when it wants to eat them. Why would a popoto run?? And even worse...why does it talk? (https://youtu.be/bj6eQ7oitJo?t=7s)

[Schan]

*clears throat*
at the start of the game most lalafells were evil;

lalas in general love to spam emotes, especially the laughter emote with that particular annoying voice (cat people also tend to do this - wish i could punt them and grab them by the tail respectively and throw them into the limsa sea)

and the master race bs was pretty much started by people playing lalas

also for some reason they are really... all over you. I hope someone has explained that better than I can but basically... I don't fnd you cute, just please stop throwing yourselves at me and try to make me find you cute. You are not my cup of tea. Just. Bloody. Stop. It. What is wrong with you people x_X

At least cat people mind their own business more often than not. @_@

But you know how you make the hate slightly better? you're that one lala that lala haters meet and they think you're an all right person even though you're playing a lala. Be the exception the haters have.

[DubiousDisk]

*clears throat*
at the start of the game most lalafells were evil;

lalas in general love to spam emotes, especially the laughter emote with that particular annoying voice (cat people also tend to do this - wish i could punt them and grab them by the tail respectively and throw them into the limsa sea)

and the master race bs was pretty much started by people playing lalas

also for some reason they are really... all over you. I hope someone has explained that better than I can but basically... I don't fnd you cute, just please stop throwing yourselves at me and try to make me find you cute. You are not my cup of tea. Just. Bloody. Stop. It. What is wrong with you people x_X

At least cat people mind their own business more often than not. @_@

But you know how you make the hate slightly better? you're that one lala that lala haters meet and they think you're an all right person even though you're playing a lala. Be the exception the haters have.

>assuming people surround them for their attention.
>cat people mind their own business.

Lmao.

[miraidensetsu]

But you know how you make the hate slightly better? you're that one lala that lala haters meet and they think you're an all right person even though you're playing a lala. Be the exception the haters have.

Sorry to inform you, but those lalas that throw themselves at you are minority. An noisy minority, I'd say.

And I knew and played with a plenty of lala players. I even was from a LS full of lalas. No one throw themselves at other players. No one even spam emotes. But that isn't enough to keep the hatred down.

That's because haters - like you - have those noisy minority as a "default lalafell". And to them, no matter what a lalafell player does, that hatred won't go down. Not even a bit. That's because the hatred is on you, not on lala players.

But if you have some problem with some specific lala players, I invite you to tell GM about it. They will most likely be banned for harassment.