Is there a particular reason you don't like the Fairy option? No offense, but it seems like there is actually a lot more character development and challenge involved with the Fairy than with an Earth human.shaderic said:That's incredibly true. Emotional development is the most delicious kind.
Seeing growth and change over time, the mental effects of decisions and others reactions to them... It is sweet. And makes me want to work on my Battle Fantasia story, but that's not relevant right now.
To be perfectly honest, I still don't particularly like the fairy option when we can play as an Orcan. I'd actually rather do that then human, but Fairy and Earth!Human are so far ahead in the lead that I have to take what I can get.
The Fairy is likely to be as ignorant of common culture for the setting due to isolation, and then has the fact they're TINY and basically separated from not just their own culture, but also their own species. There is a lot of humor to be had in being small enough to live in someone's hat, but also a lot of challenge in winning real respect when you're that small and pretty. There's also challenge in facing down or hiding from people looking to control such a novelty. Then there's the issue that comes with the isolation you feel- could you go back to the jungle and help out the other fairies? Should you? Could you make them into a power to be reckoned with if you did?
An Earth human... Well, they're still human. From another culture or not, they'll likely be surrounded by humans who are... not so different from humans from another country. Get some new clothing, spend a year learning a few of the cultural dissonance issues, and you're pretty much one of the herd. You can talk about the challenge of rising above that mundanity, but... the fact you could pretty much take a job waiting tables if you really wanted, and nobody would much give a damn or look at you twice robs a lot of the drama from it for me.