We can't RP together? [Species clumping issues]

[JasmineFlower]

I remember once trying to find a Dragon RP with my wingless, feathered dragon. After a few hours, I found one, and asked to join. Nope, "Winged dragons only".
Why? I was the same species, I just didn't have wings, yet I couldn't join. Maybe because dragons without wings aren't so common?
I usually don't see many people rejecting other species from their RPs' (probably because I don't RP in groups much), but my melanistic serval got accepted into a lion pride once. Luck I guess.

[nubeees]

I too have noticed this, and I don't like it. Personally, I do a lot of cross-species rp, my cheetah characters for an example often interact with my friends' lion characters.

[Arkayy]

I just think people being picky like this is ridiculous. Same with things like bright colored markings. Why not someone let them be the character they want instead of commanding them to change or rejected them because their different? v.v

[Neowulf]

I've actually roleplayed as a character named Sock(Dark Cani with toxic abilities) and I don't know if my groupmates are Dark Cani or some other canine type thing altogether. But I actually went and crashed a few warriors groups. It's not rivalries. It's just, Felines.... Lemme put it this way: It's like felines own the plains with the occasional slave canines. It feels wrong to me. But otherwise, outside of ragespurts, I'm fine with roleplaying with cats and lions and, well... Feline characters in general(Not the deceased chat, why would I talk about that here >.>). And about dragons, if I made a group for them, I would include every type whom would roleplay. And is it true about Bonfire? Btw I'm considering a multispecies group accepting any character, as long as their colors be semi-realistic.

[Phatom]

I don't like it when this happens, neither does anyone I think but great thread post!

When I'm on my fursona and my best friend's on her Leopard character, we always role play together. We've even had a few people accepting her in just lion based role plays because they were kind enough to do so but we've also had our bad times as in such, we were just sitting in Temple of Dreams, minding own our business we weren't even role playing. So this person who's a Hyena, comes up and tells me a Lion and Leopard can't be best friends because it simply doesn't happen in real life but what should it matter? We're comfortable and happy with what we've produced with our characters!

[Kona]

I do see a lot of this, but I've been in a few groups not to just one species. Like a Lion/Wolf group or a group that accepted any type of cat...But it's true, if a Hyena even gets close to a lion pride, all the lions throw a fit and start yelling at the Hyena...

[zady]

well thing is hun, i'v atempted to make a multi-species RP before, and well.. no one joined, not a single person or when they did they joined withthe species of y character. .... infact the warrior cats seems to be better at muli-species RP than any other species. Either way it may just be a preference, a habbit, a trate that we feral hearters have gained over a long amount of time, we like things to be the same, and we physically cannot RP with another species. it's ingrained into pur minds.