Au Ra physiology and other lore.

Yeah, we all have a unique racial position and the seiza position.

I wonder what their sitting-on-chairs-and-benches ones are :o

I also used to sit like that all the time. Poor knees. That W position doesn't fit with the personality of my au ra though. Seiza it is.

Yeah, I was really hoping for something reasonable like the kneeling position female Highlanders have. The "W" sitting position just looks awkward (if that's what it is) and I don't really care for the seiza either.

Ah, well, c'est la vie, right? (/prays for a 3rd sitting position)

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Originally Posted by Iromi

Haha yeah...I used to sit like that when I was a kid and would always be told that is bad to sit like that! It hurts looking at it lol.

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As a kid, with the flexibility only children have, it used to seem pretty comfortable. It'd be painful to try now, though. Either it's supposed to make her look more child-like or Auri are just more flexible than humans are. (We could be generous and assume the later, but given the overall design of Auri women, I expect that to SE it's more about looking like a child.)

Yeah, I tried sitting like that and while my knees bend properly with some discomfort, my ankles just won't flatten out like that.

>.<

Stupid antics aside, if the females continue to have such moé moé cutesy body language I'm seriously going to consider changing to a male instead.

Yep same. I really wanted her to have a bored and serious attitude but...ugh. I kinda like the male au ra I made too, but all of my glamour gear is for females. Swimsuits and all, I mean.

I wanted a serious and focused (but not quite intense) look, and put considerable effort into overcoming the inherent moé factor. Unfortunately, no amount of design nuance can overcome their animations.

C'mon, SE! I was expecting them to be kind of cute from the outset, but don't tell me you designed Auri women specifically to be moéblobs!

As someone who wasn't even aware that W position sitting was a thing, all I gotta say is it looks incredibly uncomfortable.

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Originally Posted by Sushikins

A Japanese blog post showed off one of their sitting animations today:

http://img.finalfantasyxiv.com/lds/b...log/isyu05.png

I think it looks more than a little uncomfortable.

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Only time I've ever seen anyone sit in that position was completely involuntary on their part as that's how gravity left them upon their wipe out of a landing.

Needless to say, they didn't stay that way for long for various reasons one of which was undoubtedly how uncomfortable it was.

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Originally Posted by Hivernica

Finding a voice will be tough. I can't choose a voice without hearing the battle voice first. Some voices sound nice in the character creation and so very weird once you play a DoW. I'll make an alt, who will get like 10 fantasias anyway and try to figure it out before changing my main.

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What a great idea :) why didn't I think of that lol
@ sitting position; yeah that looks awkward as hell ;(