The Sidequest Journey's End features the character Janyn whose model is clearly a male Hyur as seen here:
https://i.imgur.com/w4bvueU.png
However, the quest text refers to this character as female, using 'she' as seen here:
https://i.imgur.com/NgP2OY7.png
Are there any contextual indicators other than their character model? Are there any moments of dialog where someone uses gendered pronouns to refer to them? If the quest description is the only place where gendered pronouns are used to refer to the character, I don't see anything problematic about this. Character model settings aren't always literal, and the model settings they chose for this one don't scream a masculine design intent. And even if they did, that wouldn't automatically make these pronouns a mistake.
Could be a deliberate mismatch, could be the translator or name-assigner (however that gets handled) taking one glance at the character and misreading them. The face is fairly ambiguous and the name is too – Midlander names are usually English, sometimes oddly spelled, so if I was just told "Janyn is a Midlander name; guess the character's gender" I'd probably guess it was a variant on Janine.
We've had occasional oddities like this right back to ARR – there's a FATE NPC in Larkscall named Mianne – a name straight from the female Elezen name generator, but it's a male character model. Not enough text in the FATE blurb to work out their intended pronouns though.
In case anyone's interested, here's the JP text:
https://i.imgur.com/4iU4HYv.png
Roughly,Quote:
Originally Posted by Journey's End Journal Entry (JP version)
(sorry, my JP is not very good)Quote:
Originally Posted by Journey's End Journal Entry (JP version translated to English)
It doesn't seem to mention Janyn's gender at all, just that they are a soldier of the alliance.