Based on that screenshot, it looks more like it's by gender... Except for the Male Au Ra there who has the same pose as the female characters...
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"One per character model" really, and handed out depending on what poses that race/gender currently doesn't have.
From the characters that I have, I know that male Au Ra already has the pose with both hands on hips, but not the one-hand pose shown in the image, while male Elezen and Miqo'te have the one-hand pose but not the both-hands pose.
Yeah, isn't quite something very unique, because it's almost the same of one of the stances. Plus 2 hands on hips is exactly what happens in the recent /guard emote that is persistent.
I feel like Miqo'te boys are the ones in dire need of new /cpose variants, because as a personal opninion, their poses look very forced and uncomfortable.
I'm all for more poses, though none of them look terribly different to what is available already. I do hope there's more than what is shown, though I'll be tempering my expectations.
It's most likely just one pose and they are showing it on screen. so don't get your hopes up.
From what I'm seeing. It seems like the "hands on hips" pose changes slightly depending on race. (Maybe gender too?)
Yeah, there are always slight variations. I went through my various characters to compare and even if they have similar poses they're not quite the same, or they move differently as they settle into the pose.
I checked my alt. FemRoes have two varieties of hands-on-hips but no pose with one hand up and one down, so that presumably is what they're getting.
I think it's simple. If your race/gender combination didn't have a hands-on-hip pose, you got one now. If you already did, and it was too similar to the one others got, you get a new pose that is one hand on hip, the other dangling. Thus, for example, I imagine midlander women will get hands on hips for a pose, while highlander women (who already have one) get one hand on hip and the other dangling.