The White Hair Conundrum

What is up with so many important characters having white / silver hair in this game?

We've got:

• Louisoix
• Y'shtola
• Alphinaud
• Alisaie
• Thancred
• Urianger
• Estinien
• Hades
• Venat
• Elidibus

And these are just on top of my head

Do the devs like whitish hair really that much?

White hair=Master race End discussion <.<>.>;):D:rolleyes:

Forgot the best character: ME

https://i.imgur.com/JSdOtrl.jpeg

it's fantasy brown hair.

I remember reading once that haircolors have special meaning in Anime. White hair marking an especially strong character or a character with "otherworldly" traits.

You also forgot Papabrea...

https://img.finalfantasyxiv.com/lds/...XOpDG7-Idw.jpg

;)

Serious answer though, is it's probably a cultural thing about white/grey hair being a symbol of maturity and thus wisdom - no surprises then that most if not all characters in that list are scholary/diplomatic or mage types. Of course reality is different, but this game isn't meant to be reality - it's fantasy.

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Originally Posted by Lelila38

I remember reading once that haircolors have special meaning in Anime. White hair marking an especially strong character or a character with "otherworldly" traits.

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True, but when the vast majority of the main cast has white hair, it gets kinda silly

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Originally Posted by Thighland

True, but when the vast majority of the main cast has white hair, it gets kinda silly

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I don't disagree with you. I just thought that might have been the reason for the design choice. Just a cultural thing I guess.

It’s not as much a “cultural” or “anime” thing as it is a weird coincidence and it came up in an interview.

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Q: Why do the scions have so many white/grey
haired members?

A: Difficult question. You are right, there are many characters with those features and we do have it in mind all the time. In the original version, we already had Thancred and Yshtola, we hadn't planned on adding Urianger to the Scions at first, but it just turned out that way. Estinien was originally designed to be part of the DRG job quests, we hadn't imagined him to play such a huge role during the HW story and in 6.0 he
became part of the scions.... A lot of coincidences. Sometimes we discuss if we should give some chars a make over, but the impressions are too strong at this point and we decided to keep it like this. I personally am not a fan of pure colours, like green for example and that's why new characters tend to be a bit simple in this regard. We will try to
balance it a little better from now on.

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On the OP’s list, every single character except for the twins and those 3 Ancients debuted in 1.0.


My (current) character has white hair because I’m a Viera purist. This post will age like a banana when I eventually fantasia back to my Hyur after I get bored.

Sick of white hair and sharlayans. I am usually the last one to hop on the 'diversity' wagon but this is getting ridiculous.

Their hair collectively went white from reading the lore subforum.

You definitely can't blame Emet for his hair going white at this point. Some people here are even more dedicated to necroing him and his long since discarded cause than Elidibus ever was.

Minion A: Have you read our pamphlet about why the Rejoining is good and the Sundering is bad? If you disagree with us then you're a bad person. We're going to sit here and pretend to have a loud conversation about it until you acknowledge that we exist and that we matter.
Emet: Trying to sleep here.
Minion B: Emet-sama, Emet-sama, did you read the latest gossip about the forbidden love between the grumpy leader of the Ascians and the starry-eyed Warrior of Light?
Emet: Not helping, Hythlodaeus.
Minion C: My name is Elidibus, and my mission... my mission... Who are you? This is not my house!
Emet: Out! All of you, out!

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Originally Posted by Lyth

Their hair collectively went white from reading the lore subforum.

You definitely can't blame Emet for his hair going white at this point. Some people here are even more dedicated to necroing him and his long since discarded cause than Elidibus ever was.

Minion A: Have you read our pamphlet about why the Rejoining is good and the Sundering is bad? If you disagree with us then you're a bad person. We're going to sit here and pretend to have a loud conversation about it until you acknowledge that we exist and that we matter.
Emet: Trying to sleep here.
Minion B: Emet-sama, Emet-sama, did you read the latest gossip about the forbidden love between the grumpy leader of the Ascians and the starry-eyed Warrior of Light?
Emet: Not helping, Hythlodaeus.
Minion C: My name is Elidibus, and my mission... my mission... Who are you? This is not my house!
Emet: Out! All of you, out!

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You okay there Lyth? Just let it out. We are here for you.

Cause they're all Sephiroth's cousins. Clearly Jenova's Parasite's sister crashed on Etheirys, and affected all life thus with its Jenova's Cousin's cells.

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Originally Posted by Thighland

What is up with so many important characters having white / silver hair in this game?

We've got:

• Louisoix
• Y'shtola
• Alphinaud
• Alisaie
• Thancred
• Urianger
• Estinien
• Hades
• Venat
• Elidibus

And these are just on top of my head

Do the devs like whitish hair really that much?

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I would point out that one of these characters is an old man and having a hair color that isn't white or grey would stand out more. Probably. Maybe. I don't know. Also we forgot Cid.

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Originally Posted by Ascended_Demon

I would point out that one of these characters is an old man and having a hair color that isn't white or grey would stand out more. Probably. Maybe. I don't know. Also we forgot Cid.

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I have seen suggestion that Louisoix might be why the twins have white hair, to act as a signifier of 'these characters are related to this character'. That, yeah, doesn't make a lot of sense because Louisoix had white hair because he was old, and multiple other major characters ALSO had white hair.

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