Origin related social politics on the SMP

With the many different races on the SMP it's obvious that over time someone's race could affect how they are seen and how they play, with every origin reflecting a particular play style, people often form opinions, biases and several other ideas revolving around a particular race. Every race has it's own unique relationship with one another, and that can easily be explored in several ways.

**Humans:**

The human race can be considered one of, if not the single rarest race on the server, often humans are looked down on, no one race is particularly against them, but rather they are seen as a joke to all other races. Their lack of unique abilities makes it seem bewildering why anyone would want to be a human. Though aside that the humans possess no significance to lore or any part of the SMP, as expected.

**Blazeborn:**

The blazeborn as a race generally don't have as big an issue with other races than certain origins, however this doesn't not mean they haven't had their fair share of issues directed towards other races. The biggest and most notable is their growing distrust and anger towards the merling for their ability to create server-wide rain storms. Often when it begins to rain and the blazeborn are forced to hide away until it passes, they blame it on merling, whether these claims are true or not depend on the situation but it has caused for some bad blood between them.

**Enderians:**

Enderians for the most part share a similar position to blazeborn, developing a strong hatred of the merling race and those who push them on, the only difference between the two is their general abilities, which overall don't make a very big impact, however often for an enderian it might be a common strategy to destroy all nearby sources of pumpkins as to avoid one of their greatest weaknesses. One other significant note to point out is their adapted ability to see all living things however, this ability can allow them to see phantoms, giving them a slight advantage in fights.

**Merlings:**

Merlings can be considered likely the second most unliked race aside from phantoms, as previously mentioned, they have two entire races rooting against them, some of which even suggest a mass culling of the fish-folk. The merling however will often deny any involvement in the summoning of rain, with few of them being adapted. This however does not completely disprove their involvement, as some merlings have been accounted to summon rain out of direct spite of the wishes of the enderians and blazeborn.

**Avians:**

Avians are just behind the human race in term of commonality. They are relatively thought of to be weak by other races for their lack of abilities. This results in a general disrespect towards them, unlike the humans who are simply looked down upon, the avians are often made fun of, which only adds insult to injury thanks to their already low number of kin. However, aside from this, avians do not have much more of a significant impact than humans.

**Arachnids:**

Arachnids, for the most part, are general not all too hated nor liked, some may regard them as tricksters for their master of webs ability, and some may think of them to be at fault for the lack of animals in the inner sections of the world, but aside from that they have no true rivalries with any race and primarily spend their time alone or with friends of any race, usually using their time to weave vast web systems that they can call home, or at least making progress towards such a thing.

**Elytrians:**

Elytrians too are of little notoriety, this doesn't exclude their importance, however, it should be well known that they are often lead to spend their time flying through the end, collecting elytras either to sell or for the use of their own comrades. However, the elytrians have been deemed quite strong in regards to their ability to do mass amounts of damage in single hits, stacking their master of the skies ability with a critical hit allows them to tear apart enemies, and for that they may often be feared in combat.

**Phantoms:**

Phantoms are likely the single most infamous race out their, known for their ability to strike at people in combat without them even knowing they were there. Certain phantoms have taken to using the common technique of bed bombing to kill other players in the end or nether, actions such as these resulted in bed bombing being removed and further dissatisfaction caused them to be nerfed twice. As a response to the repeated nerfs many phantoms have become angry, as they are rapidly descending to bottom tier in the competitive scene, others side with the phantoms in suggesting that this is unfair does not fix and any problems while others side against the phantoms, believing that their current status is not enough. Phatoms also get neft everytime.

**Shulks:**

Shulks are known in the planets origins SMP for their increasing ability to take any attack as if it were nothing. Despite this, no race has any issues with them, they are viewed as the purest form of a fighter, a good ally, but not one to be too concerned about.

**Felines:**

Felines are also a race that is generally not all too noteworthy, they certainly have their own values but they too avoid general controversy, and their abilities are almost never thought about aside from the occasional time a feline complains about not being able to mine stone properly, or someone dying from fall damage and a feline making a comment on their ability to negate such an effect.

**Derogatory terms:**

With all this, one can't forget to mention the many names given as a way to offend or poke fun at the different races. The first every slur used against a race was "translucent" regarding the phantoms, after that had followed "web shitter" towards arachnids, then all together "moisties" for merling, "shell" for shulks, "chicken" for avians, "pussies" for felines, "aliens" against blazeborn and enderians, "target practice" for elytrians and "basics" for humans. Clearly these names show the high maturity of the SMP and it's members.