Evolution of your character

I started as a femroe and have remained one since. Didn't have a screenshot of my first look but I think this is pretty accurate:

http://i.imgur.com/FDpBtp0.jpg

Had a couple of memorable styles:

http://i.imgur.com/pxz2SRg.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/lXBjSeY.jpg

Just before the expansion I decided to change my eye colour to blue and have had white hair ever since. The new curly hair looks amazing so I'll probably keep it for a long time.

http://i.imgur.com/JIfB8ne.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/lfEPnrs.jpg

I'll never change.

1.0 textures and sprites were awesome though. I need high-res graphics client!

http://images.wmwrestling.com/uploads/FFXIVa.png
http://images.wmwrestling.com/uploads/FFXIVb.png

Mieck, or Mieck Ayen Corcoczeck, to give her full name.
I have a massive amount of screenshots, so this was difficult to narrow down.
She started life in Vana'diel, quickly working out that Dark Knight was where the most fun was to be had, though she did also train as a Corsair and Scholar. I didn't have time to look through the more than 100,000 FF11 pictures I have, so I grabbed a close up and then a couple of renders I made in 3ds max.

http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/p...psk85u4oam.jpg
http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/p...pswnfvant0.png
http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/p...psok3l0inw.jpg

Then Eorzea called and Mieck heard.
http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/p...psesyk58jw.jpg
Shooting things seemed like fun.

http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/p...psfauxwguz.jpg

Following the battle with Darnus and the fall of Dalamud, Mieck arrived in a new Eorzea. Seems like she picked up a reminder of that fight.
http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/p...psvzjyekqn.jpg

http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/p...psfxm4kayy.jpg

She couldn't stay with long hair forever, though. Mieck is a cat of action. She picked up another scar from the trip through the Coils.
http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/p...ps1tugvj2j.jpg

Before finally deciding that Dark Knight was again the thing to be.
http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/p...pssouaz6ml.jpg

I have 1.0 screenshots but they pretty much the same as my ARR version nothing really has changed with her except a new hairstyle once and a while.

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Originally Posted by Kaelah

That's why I thought it'd make an interesting thread, some people do such huge changes. I don't feel like mine has changed much, I considered my 2.0 Kaelah my first one if you know what I mean so I guess the biggest change for me was the Au Ra and I did find it reaaaaally hard to use that fantasia after being a Miqo'te all that time. It was surreal suddenly seeing someone else in cutscenes.

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After over a year of having a very short avatar (there's been two Elezen in my static since T7 so I was acutely aware of just how short my character was) suddenly being tall was interesting. The strangest change was going from male Miqo to female Miqo, because that was back when SCoB was still a thing and I remember that being shorter actually made it so I had to adjust my camera in T8.

http://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acci...39aa26d8a7.jpg
When I first started out. In beta I had green hair, but those images died on the last laptop.

http://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acci...ead78e434e.jpg
In the middle of Heavensward MSQ. I had turned into a Au Ra for a bit, but I couldn't keep the switch for long. I also promised I'd do the wedding ceremony as a Miqo'te XD

http://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acci...7b16a7b15c.jpg
This is what I'm running with now, but I give it a paycheck at most before I go back to Miqo'te. I love the Au Ra, but damn I got attached to my character.

My character hasn't changed very much since I started! People always told me "why mess with perfection" whenever I think to change something so all my character's changes since starting are kinda subtle.

http://imgur.com/5QpT9ry.png
I didn't know wtf hair color I wanted. I remember "I want red hair" and somehow thought this weird blonde was red.

http://imgur.com/J5VRtf0.png
Getting closer to the color I wanted and FRECKLES. I remember being VERY happy when freckles came out.

http://i.imgur.com/w3hxBsv.png
A new hair cut was really WEIRD at first. I debated going back to my original hair so many times but I decided to stick this haircut out.

http://i.imgur.com/Bkbzi3m.png
And now what I finally look like! The hair color I think I originally wanted but didn't think I wanted.

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Originally Posted by Kling-Klang

Started playing around spring 2014 (left is the old one). :o
http://i.imgur.com/7WcW7Bu.jpg

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So Lalas DO grow in size xD.

Fun thread, yay! :)

So starting with XI, I had two characters, an Elvaan and Taru
http://i.imgur.com/h05ONOd.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/R63XnHF.png

Then moving on to 1.0, I decided to try something else and went with a Hyur:
http://i.imgur.com/rZIKF89.png

ARR Beta and launch, my miqo!:
http://i.imgur.com/3fje5SF.png
http://i.imgur.com/9WS9iEI.png

Not quite sure of the order, but these are the different looks I've tried out since fantasias came about:
http://i.imgur.com/GX9JXpj.png
http://i.imgur.com/DlNLyQx.png
http://i.imgur.com/z9Hj8v6.png

Then I went back to XI with a new character (always wanted a mithra!):
http://i.imgur.com/NVmbdYN.png

And finally I am back to playing XIV and my Miqo for now: :)
http://i.imgur.com/KdYu0ch.png



If you read other threads, a lot of these pictures are repeats, but didn't feel like hunting through my thousands of screenshots @.@

Nice thread idea.

I started out in FFXI, like many others. I actually bought the game to play as an Elvaan but during the character creation process I changed my mind (I wanted to be a THF, and the Mithra had better character creation music). So this was me from 2002 until earlier this year when my PS2s could no longer keep up with the strain:

http://i.imgur.com/YnUR6yv.png

I had a brief visit to the world of FFXIV when it was in beta, and this was my character. Unfortunately I didn't have a computer which could run it well enough to play properly, so I hardly have any pictures:

http://i.imgur.com/Z5LTpA4.png

Eventually the game came out for PS3 so I bought it and made a new character. Still wanting to be a Duskwight, I decided to go with a guy this time. Renard was born:

http://i.imgur.com/f2hCiYE.png

I was expecting Elezen to be reasonably common. Boy, was I wrong. I rarely see any others on my server, and hardly any are Duskwights. In a way it's nice that no matter how plain I look I always stand out in a crowd.

Over time I upgraded to PS4 and persuaded my old FFXI linkshell to migrate to FFXIV. I married my real-life partner in-game and decided to change hairstyles as a surprise for the wedding ceremony, since my usual style was too casual. Everyone made fun of me for arriving at the venue dressed casually and wearing a hat, but the surprise worked well. I was going to switch straight back to my old hairstyle but in the end the new one grew on me.

http://i.imgur.com/uX6ElN5.png

I don't tend to change characters much once I've become attached (my free Fantasia was used to adjust my date of birth because I'd accidentally left it as the default). Renard's clothes change every day but he'll probably look exactly the same forever.