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Which of your characters gets blorbod

Oh BOY. So I'm currently playing an automaton character in a Strength of Thousands campaign (pf2e), and I'm playing her very much like a stereotypical robot: no emotion, strongly rational, all that good stuff. One thing that I've made core to the character is her ability to learn and grow, but I don't like the idea that a lack of emotion is a flaw that needs to be overcome. So, my philosophy is "make her become emotionally intelligent, not emotional".

Sadly, I think with the way I play her, people would anthropomorphize her hard.

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Aromanticism as a choice?

Hello! I know I'm late, but I had to say something. It seems to me you might have misunderstood how the whole aromanticism deal, or orientations in general, work.

Being aro is about attraction, not action. Choosing not to date is not the same as being aromantic, just how choosing to get into romantic relationships doesn't make you automatically allo. Aromanticism is a huge and complex variety of experiences, but none of them ever cite their lack of attraction as a choice.

As for you, maybe you only realized it recently or it changed overtime (yes that can happen), or you're an allo who decided they're happier not trying to pursue a relationship. These are possible explanations that I could think of and given the sheer breadth of the aro experience, there might be other explanations, but I'm not going to pretend I know more about you than you do. Either way, these are all perfectly fine ways to feel and I'm happy you figured something out for yourself. Just calling being aro a choice does not sit right with me.

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I swear, someday I was casually brainstorming a character and my brain went "why are they not NB" and I had no reply other than "fair point."

I have an elven Barbarian whom I have been meaning to use in a campaign for a while now. tl;dw: His dad is an abusive racial supremacist who had very fixed ideas of how my Barbarian should be and act like, but could never live up to.

Just recently I realized that he could be very easily interpreted as a trans allegory, and decided to go the extra mile. So now he's a trans man.

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What a degenerate creature

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Mon-keigh just functions as a sort of slur for non-eldar, most commonly used for humans in-universe, there's not really much further subtext. It is similar to the actual human word monkey to invoke a sense of arrogance, but it's changed cuz it's just not exactly kosher to refer to people as monkeys irl (even though scientifically speaking, humans are monkeys).

Apart from that, it's mostly just a reference to this

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Posting some memes I made when I first found out I'm aro, thought I'd post here as well part 2

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You might have misunderstood. This is not meant to shit on allos in general, this is more about amatonormativity and people who fall into this weird worldview that a romantic relationship is the only thing making life worth living. I've never faced any abuse for being aro, but I have been met with disbelief for saying I don't have crushes and I've been belittled for not having a girlfriend. This meme is supposed to be a lighthearted, if a bit hyperbolic jab at those kinds of people.

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"Poyo"

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Kirby kills gods on a regular basis, there's no doubt in my mind that Kirby would either absorb it into his being or obliterate it completely.

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Remaster Core Preview now available

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Given that thunder strike seems to be a spell and not a cantrip, I don't think it'll replace shocking grasp.

Edit: As for the Wizard, they also explicitly stated that your GM may add spells to that list they deem thematically appropriate, so there's a lot of wiggleroom.