To whoever designed the new NPC Lilja

Thank you and I appreciate a gyaru viera being canonized in Eorzea. I look forward to more random fashion subcultures being introduced. (Or more gyaru/GAL because I love it)

https://i.imgur.com/8jZAlhp.png

The nails were especially a nice touch.

uuuh... wut?

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Originally Posted by EmoPanther

uuuh... wut?

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Gyaru is/was a popular Japanese subculture of fashion and style in the 90's-00's. It has evolved and changed from its earlier stages which look like Blackface, but the key basics are dark/tanned skin, blonde hair and colorful, crazy nails and bright flashy clothing, usually quite skimpy to be a complete contrast to the traditional Japanese beauty.

https://ipc.digital/wp-content/uploa...ru-640x326.png


The shades though, give off peak Galo Sengen vibes.

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Originally Posted by EmoPanther

uuuh... wut?

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If people have that kind of reaction to it, and you've never heard of it, theres a 99% chance its cringe and a 1% chance its really cringe.

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Originally Posted by Barraind

If people have that kind of reaction to it, and you've never heard of it, theres a 99% chance its cringe and a 1% chance its really cringe.

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Kind of like calling something "cringe"?

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Originally Posted by Barraind

If people have that kind of reaction to it, and you've never heard of it, theres a 99% chance its cringe and a 1% chance its really cringe.

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just like your dismissal.
Cringe.

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Originally Posted by Barraind

If people have that kind of reaction to it, and you've never heard of it, theres a 99% chance its cringe and a 1% chance its really cringe.

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Bro you just posted Cringe

My first thought was that she felt a little out of place, honestly.

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Originally Posted by Theodric

My first thought was that she felt a little out of place, honestly.

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Well, she is a Viera.

I loved Lilja. My only beef is that I wasn’t able to shake her hand!

This has made me notice something awkward about Viera though, the skin colour in her ears doesn’t match the rest of her skin at all. It looks weird, the inner part should be dark too, rather than a light pink colour.

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Originally Posted by NessaWyvern

This has made me notice something awkward about Viera though, the skin colour in her ears doesn’t match the rest of her skin at all. It looks weird, the inner part should be dark too, rather than a light pink colour.

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Hmm yeah, that's odd - particularly since Miqo'te ears do change to match skin colour.

I wonder if it's something to do with how the ears are implemented? A while back someone had posted some images of a Miqo'te model with no hairstyle applied, and the inner ears are part of the body model, so they'd be responding to the same skin colour setting. But Viera ears are a separate piece with a choice of shapes so maybe it doesn't work the same... although it would be equivalent to Elezen/Lalafell ears and those are fine. Perhaps it's an oversight because they're not connected to the body in the same way (you're not seeing the pale skin directly next to dark) and nobody thought to look at it.

So...She's probably a Garlean spy, right? >w>

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Originally Posted by Gula

Thank you and I appreciate a gyaru viera being canonized in Eorzea. I look forward to more random fashion subcultures being introduced. (Or more gyaru/GAL because I love it)

https://i.imgur.com/8jZAlhp.png

The nails were especially a nice touch.

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*Laughs*... I thought I was one of the few who immediately caught on about Lilja-- I was literally smiling at my screen and the Devs got her speech, appearance + mannerisms spot on!

Brilliant new NPC and I really hope to see more of her in future patches

Please give us more Lilja, because she is awesome.

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Originally Posted by Mimilu

So...She's probably a Garlean spy, right? >w>

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Yup, 100%. But shhh, it's an absolutely not obvious secret.

Go away, she's clearly MY fan.

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Originally Posted by Gula

https://i.imgur.com/8jZAlhp.png

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it's like they hit the random button

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Originally Posted by Sigiria

Yup, 100%. But shhh, it's an absolutely not obvious secret.

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She's not wearing proper Ironworks uniform either! Glasses instead of goggles, no gloves, wrong boots...

Maybe Cid thinks Jessie hired her and Jessie thinks Cid hired her.

Quite seriously, I thought it was a bit odd that she introduces herself by name, but is just labelled "Ironworks Engineer". Maybe it's just because we haven't met her before and it made more sense as a "next objective" instruction to talk to the engineer rather than an unfamiliar name, but I can't remember if/how they've handle similar things previously. Can they swap out the NPC/name or not until the next time we see her?

Now that people bring it up, I feel a little silly for not finding her suspicious sooner.

She does kinda give off that "Spy in plain sight" vibe between the eccentric get-up, being a foreigner, and being a WoL fangirl.

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Originally Posted by KageTokage

Now that people bring it up, I feel a little silly for not finding her suspicious sooner.

She does kinda give off that "Spy in plain sight" vibe between the eccentric get-up, being a foreigner, and being a WoL fangirl.

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I didn't think of it either until people suggested it here. I did notice the odd gloves/boots at the time and chalked it up to "new person without full uniform yet" but now I'm wondering...

Of course, at a game level she may just not have gloves because you can't equip them and false nails together.

We do know that the Empire 100% has spies watching over Ganagos.

But not Lilja. Lilja is a saint. My intuition tells me this, and it is never wrong. Except about that one clown that gave me the stink-eye, but I don't count that time.

I like Lilja, she seems like an honest to a fault type but wants to help when she can. I wish we do get to shake her hand someday.

As for her being a garlean spy I doubt it, information doesn't line up too well and she would be useless for the IVth legion unless Cid/Jesse depatch her to the camp, my money is on the guy in the corner of the zone looking out to sea and saying nothing but ocean as far as I can see, when there are two very clear islands you can see.

I like her. A shame she's a spy.

I had red flashing lights all over in my head when she offered a handshake.

I wonder if she makes it to the MSQ in some way?

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Originally Posted by Gula

Gyaru is/was a popular Japanese subculture of fashion and style in the 90's-00's. It has evolved and changed from its earlier stages which look like Blackface, but the key basics are dark/tanned skin, blonde hair and colorful, crazy nails and bright flashy clothing, usually quite skimpy to be a complete contrast to the traditional Japanese beauty.
The shades though, give off peak Galo Sengen vibes.

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Huh... she looked just like another overdressed whackjob to Ifalna.

Interesting thought about her being a spy.

I.. don't get why anyone thinks she is a spy? She just gave off wacky absent-minded new girl vibes to me. The fact that she's a WoL fangirl doesn't make her suspicious either; given the nature of the WoL in Eorzea and beyond, they'd be a household name by now and would most definitely have fans (and haters) all over the place. In fact, us not seeing very many of them is even more suspicious. It's like someone is purposefully trying to hide our accomplishments from the people.

The nails and lips selection is bad, i never liked those nails on anyone.

Man I came here like aww we have a fangirl and y'all are like hmm definitely a spy

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Originally Posted by Jandor

Well, she is a Viera.

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>:O