You think?

[Aidorouge]

This reads like you would wear a full diving suit in the swimming pool and get angry when others say it's impractical and odd. It's bizarre and socially out of place for that environment, but since its proper swim wear in other contexts and modest, the OTHERS are wrong for their confusion and for dressing in trunks and bikinis.

Like, the only word that comes to mind is puritanical.

My intent with my post is that there's people out there that get very judgey about how other people create or dress-up their characters and then think they can police what they can and can not have, and this Alessa person doesn't sound any different from the folks who give people flak for playing something outside their IRL gender or race. Likewise, if they're going to insist other people have to customize themselves based on what they deem "correct" then they should be aware that people may find every facet of their own character objectionable from their appearance to their outfit. I all but called their hat and glasses awful to emphasize that point, but I didn't deem them worth blocking until they insisted on being rude anyway.

The self-deprecation is because I'm not the kind of person who thinks their butt doesn't stink and that I do indeed seem to have a character that checks off every box for what some people consider a "negative Miqo'te stereotype" minus the beeknees while AFKing in Limsa or some venue (I have way better things to do and don't RP in general). My whole point is that people can do what they want with their characters and if I don't care for a certain kind of customization, and there is a lot I don't like, then I just don't use it myself, I don't go on some tear about them being "trashy" or equating their actions to bringing down some imaginary neighborhood or the value of humanity or whatever they were trying to get at because tattoos and piercings upset them. I don't even like tattoos or piercings myself, but I don't attack the people who do.