When can we make lalaqotes?

There's already loli kittens around Idyllshire, so the models are there. Why can't I make a kitty with something like Alphinaud's body style?

I can see Balmung now...

"shota trap LF good time, PST"

But would that be so bad?

It should be pretty obvious why SE doesnt allow us to make children-characters... There are people out there who'd do nasty things with those and I'm pretty sure SE doesnt want to see that in their game (for pretty good reasons). Lalafells are already a stretch and they're rather careful not to sexualize them to much

Yes please and thank you :3

Alphinauds body is a good middle ground. Not to young not to old... and still old enough to get beat down in cutscenes.

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Originally Posted by Vidu

It should be pretty obvious why SE doesnt allow us to make children-characters... There are people out there who'd do nasty things with those and I'm pretty sure SE doesnt want to see that in their game (for pretty good reasons). Lalafells are already a stretch and they're rather careful not to sexualize them to much

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I said lalaqotes, not children. There, problem solved.

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Originally Posted by Vidu

It should be pretty obvious why SE doesnt allow us to make children-characters... There are people out there who'd do nasty things with those and I'm pretty sure SE doesnt want to see that in their game (for pretty good reasons). Lalafells are already a stretch and they're rather careful not to sexualize them to much

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This is exactly the reasoning Yoshi-P gave when asked.

He said Lalas don't count because they're a "Dwarf-like Race".

Besides a Lalaqote race, I would just like to wear the Miqote starter gear as a Lalafell.

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Originally Posted by Vidu

. Lalafells are already a stretch and they're rather careful not to sexualize them to much

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The male Lalafell play dead emote has his ass up the air.

I think they were considering that body style for miqo'te males if the concept art is an indicator:
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...c9bd09881d.jpg

Otherwise, alphinaud, alisae and ardashir are developing teenagers. The most we can hope for is having a miqo'te npc with that physique

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Originally Posted by myahele

I think they were considering that body style for miqo'te males if the concept art is an indicator:
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...c9bd09881d.jpg

Otherwise, alphinaud, alisae and ardashir are developing teenagers. The most we can hope for is having a miqo'te npc with that physique

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If I remember correctly; too lazy to pull the Encyclopedia off the shelf by me, Ardashir is 17 and the twins are 16.

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Originally Posted by Kyuuen

If I remember correctly; too lazy to pull the Encyclopedia off the shelf by me, Ardashir is 17 and the twins are 16.

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The ages in the book are, by and large, pretty uhh, odd, to say the least. You can feel most of them being adjusted from the Japanese audience to the west. Similar to how most of the cast of Bravely default is 'aged up' just by changing the number in the instruction booklet and little else.

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Originally Posted by CosmicKirby

The ages in the book are, by and large, pretty uhh, odd, to say the least. You can feel most of them being adjusted from the Japanese audience to the west. Similar to how most of the cast of Bravely default is 'aged up' just by changing the number in the instruction booklet and little else.

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I doubt they changed it much; wording aside, between the two considering there's younger characters than that in the game. One being Emmanellains servant whose name I'm blanking on. Then the kids in Mor Dhona that came from Doma, I believe the oldest is like 13 or 14.

I could be wrong, but we'd need someone with a Japanese version to confirm or deny that theory.

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Originally Posted by Core1019

I said lalaqotes, not children. There, problem solved.

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That's nothing more than semantics. Yes, technically Lalafells aren't children... but they look like children. That's why they go out of their way to sexualize lalafells as little as possible.

It's the same problem that TERA has... the Elin are quite obviously children and to make it worse are rather sexualized. Yet they think just saying, "No, no, no, they aren't children. They're hundreds of years old!" makes it perfectly fine. It doesn't.

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Originally Posted by Kaedan

That's nothing more than semantics. Yes, technically Lalafells aren't children... but they look like children. That's why they go out of their way to sexualize lalafells as little as possible.

It's the same problem that TERA has... the Elin are quite obviously children and to make it worse are rather sexualized. Yet they think just saying, "No, no, no, they aren't children. They're hundreds of years old!" makes it perfectly fine. It doesn't.

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Shame that race pretty much ruined the game. It's 50% loli people. *shudder*

I don't want Lalafell to be tainted by Miqo'te. Gross.

Can we also get Lalaroes?

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Originally Posted by Amelia_Pond_Behemoth

Can we also get Lalaroes?

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http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/...39/808/122.png

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Originally Posted by Exiled_Tonberry

The male Lalafell play dead emote has his ass up the air.

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I guess they thought it'd look funny. Until people started spamming the sulk emote while standing behind them. We need alternate poses for the play dead emote.

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Originally Posted by Kaedan

That's nothing more than semantics. Yes, technically Lalafells aren't children... but they look like children. That's why they go out of their way to sexualize lalafells as little as possible.

It's the same problem that TERA has... the Elin are quite obviously children and to make it worse are rather sexualized. Yet they think just saying, "No, no, no, they aren't children. They're hundreds of years old!" makes it perfectly fine. It doesn't.

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Don't mean to patronise you here, but:

"Oh won't somebody please think of the imaginary pixels?!".

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Originally Posted by Core1019

Don't mean to patronise you here, but:

"Oh won't somebody please think of the imaginary pixels?!".

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And still one must understand as a business, controversy is never a good thing, the issues have been brought up before. Depictions of child like characters is enough cut onto profits if games and often requires more work than their worth (redesigning of gear, animations, handeling of press due to unneeded controversy, ect...) However you don't need to take my word for it.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...-were-censored


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"There has been a lot of debate about the Elin race, which has been censored versus the Korean version. Can you explain what happened?

Lucile Le Merle: Yes. This topic has been discussed for about a year and a half now, ever since the Elin were announced at G-Star in 2010. There has been a huge amount of controversy because of the different ways Asian, Europeans and Americans see this kind of graphic content. The decision to change slightly the Elin armour was made with En Masse, the US publisher of the game. At first there was supposed to be a massive change on this race. We were supposed to add tights on every single one of them, but we knew there was going to be massive community uproar, and this is not what wanted for the game. Which is why we had a lot of discussion about it. Now, the models of the armour have changed, but only slightly."

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"In late April you issued a statement saying these changes were made because the Elin could have attracted to the game Unsavory users. What exactly does that mean?

Lucile Le Merle: It's a matter of point of view. We did not want to implement the Elins as they were in the original version because if you look at the forums and how users usually react to this race, it's either people offended by the way they look, or it's people trolling, saying, hey, I'm "pedobear". This is the kind of behaviour we want to avoid at all costs.

We know unless we removed the race entirely from the game, which would have caused an even bigger uproar, we could not avoid having such comments. But we wanted to reduce the amount of comments because some people are offended or some people have a different opinion.

You also say it's part of Frogster's responsibility to protect younger audiences from the unsavoury users. Is that a suggestion that there may be people who are attracted to playing Tera for reasons that aren't to do with playing it in the right way?

Lucile Le Merle: Exactly. Obviously just like any other online game, there are going to be people who will be on the game but not to play it. They are going to be child predators, harassers, people who insult each other. That's something we cannot avoid.

However, we have customer support, which is working very hard to ensure nothing like that happens. And especially in regards to the Elins, we have had a few users in the past who were doing, let's say, bad communication, running around with an Elin character saying sexual content. Those users have been banned because this is not the kind of attitude we want to see in the game."

One reason that's not being said: HYBRIDS EVERYWHERE. There would be people speaking out "my wanted hybrid combination isn't in the game!" Everyone always seems to focus on lalaqote, but personally I'd love to see an AuRa/Roe hybrid from Doma(Raen or Xaela is fine). Elezen/Hyur hybrids already exist, although there's only one that we know of.

Think about it from a dev's point of view. You spend 2 years working on a beautiful AuRa/Roe hybrid, and no one plays it. The only hybrids being played are Lala/Miq and Elezen/Hyur. So that dev time to all those other hybrid races were wasted. It wouldn't be realistic to say "oh, only Hyurs and Elezen can hybridize with each other, and only Lalafell and Miqote can with each other". Go all-in or nothing, and if the devs feel too many of the models wouldn't be used then it would be more worthwhile to spend that time working on other aspects of character customization.

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Originally Posted by Fredco191

I guess they thought it'd look funny. Until people started spamming the sulk emote while standing behind them. We need alternate poses for the play dead emote.

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There's no way they didn't know what would happen considering the previous excuse to not let us /doze on the floor, and considering lala M /playdead is perfect height for 5-6 other emotes that turn the whole thing 18+

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Originally Posted by Alacran

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Ah, morality policing at its finest. If they aren't hurting anyone directly or indirectly, why not let people do what they want?

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Originally Posted by Core1019

Ah, morality policing at its finest. If they aren't hurting anyone directly or indirectly, why not let people do what they want?

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Thank you. As for the second item, i would like to play a game that does not cater to those... "unsavoury users".

I would not be unamenable to the idea of slightly older variations Alphinaud 's and Alisaie's youthful stature, though that that to me is basically an Aura female (late teens, early twenties).

Never. Thank goodness.

Children porn? {No thanks}

https://i.imgur.com/acE13hl.jpg

I don't see any reason to sexualize a lalaqote.

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Originally Posted by Kacho_Nacho

https://i.imgur.com/acE13hl.jpg

I don't see any reason to sexualize a lalaqote.

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Because it's the internet. Rule 34.

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Originally Posted by Kacho_Nacho

https://i.imgur.com/acE13hl.jpg

I don't see any reason to sexualize a lalaqote.

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that pic edit is great. i'd take Lalau ra tho.

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Originally Posted by Nestmile

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/...39/808/122.png

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Imagine if you will... a dwarf from Lord of the Rings.

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Originally Posted by Core1019

Ah, morality policing at its finest. If they aren't hurting anyone directly or indirectly, why not let people do what they want?

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Because being associated with anything even closely to children pornographie or violating children isnt such a good thing for a buisness? What do you think would happen if people started posting pics and videos of clearly underaged characters in certain poses etc. (the male lalafell dead-emote was a real surprise to me - I can only explain it as terrible oversight)? So, people WOULD harm someone - SE - directly if they were allowed to play children.
Imagine the whole Haurchefaunt stuff with a child - or the flirtation with Aymeric (no one is going to convince me its something else!). Bäm! Just turned two heros into pedophiles!

And beside the whole sexual thing: a lot of countries tend to have a problem with violence against children aswell - and even when there is no blood in this game, it might be troubling for some of those to have a child as maincharacter, getting hurt and commit acts of violence.
As silly as that sounds as first glance: There is a reason you cant hurt children in most games. Funfact even: In the german version of one of the first Fallout games the children got simply removed because you could kill them and that would have proven to be a problem. Dont know where you're from, but germany is taking this stuff serious and I'm pretty sure SE would like to keep their 12 label.

And beside all the arguments to specifically NOT to introduce children as playable characters: It would require remodelling and we all know how motivated SE is to revisit the character creation and give us more options that arent hairstyles.

So, sorry, if you want to play child... go play Pokemon. Maybe you can get cat-ears as headwear by now?

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Originally Posted by Kacho_Nacho

https://i.imgur.com/acE13hl.jpg

I don't see any reason to sexualize a lalaqote.

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Give it Lalafell ears and a Miqo'te tail. Or it is just a little Miqo'te and not a bit Lalafell. And little Miqo'tes are forbidden to left the starter city for adventures.

I kind of wish they'd explore interspecies relationships in-game a bit more then they do.

The only thing that's really known is that children born being from mixed couples is a big taboo, but marriage between them is evidently not considered an issue. They must have some secret form of birth control in play for there to not be more half-breeds then there are, considering how much some of Eorzea's inhabitants get around.

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I kind of wish they'd explore interspecies relationships in-game a bit more then they do.

The only thing that's really known is that children born being from mixed couples is a big taboo, but marriage between them is evidently not considered an issue. They must have some secret form of birth control in play for there to not be more half-breeds then there are, considering how much some of Eorzea's inhabitants get around.

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Outside Elezen and Hyurs all other races are not compatible, even if they try nothing happens.

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Originally Posted by Kacho_Nacho

https://i.imgur.com/acE13hl.jpg

I don't see any reason to sexualize a lalaqote.

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Except that isn't what people mean when they say they want a Lalaqote. It may be what you would want, but most are looking for essentially what would result in a child Miqote, yet they want to use the excuse that "she's not a child, she's just short/underdeveloped because she's half Lalafell".

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Originally Posted by Driavna

Outside Elezen and Hyurs all other races are not compatible, even if they try nothing happens.

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This.

Elezen and Hyur were mildly acceptable because of half-elves. But Roe or Miquote or Lalafell and any other race just doesn't work.

Aren't Highlander the result of Hyurs and Roegadyns? Or is this just a rumor? ^^

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Originally Posted by Felis

Aren't Highlander the result of Hyurs and Roegadyns? Or is this just a rumor? ^^

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Rumor. That's never been stated by any official source.

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Originally Posted by Felis

Aren't Highlander the result of Hyurs and Roegadyns? Or is this just a rumor? ^^

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Heh...

https://i.imgflip.com/w29tw.jpg

All in good fun...
Edit: Guys, i think they are just using an in game joke. At least i hope...

For the love of all things good in this world, no. It will only be okay if they're lalafells with miqo'te ears/tail glued on.

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Originally Posted by Felis

Aren't Highlander the result of Hyurs and Roegadyns? Or is this just a rumor? ^^

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All official sources say that Highlanders are just more muscular Hyurs from the highlands, and even then it's not even 100% true all the time. Some highlander NPCs use the midlander model, and vice versa.