I'd like to be able to play a kid character

[kyuven]

I don't know what elezen you've seen, but there's some really beautiful ones out there,

minfilia seems to agree

[Noll]

Well, I don't care about RP or things, I'm just saying that a 11-13 years old human avatar being a mage would be cool. I understand all the slutty gears would look inappropriate on it tho', so I get your point.

Think about Berserk's young witch girl, or Rydia/Polom/Parom. Although I'd laugh if I'd see a PALADIN kid.

[Corfish]

Padjals aren't an option either. They are far too rare from a lore standpoint to be a playable character.

To be fair, so are male miqo'te. There are actually very few male miqo'te compared to female miqo'te, and certainly not enough to go adventuring (they need to make the babies!) But we still got them as playable. I don't see a reason why Padjal can't become playable with some excuse given like "An entire city of padjal was found hidden in the magic swamp of doom!"

[whoopeeragon]

To be fair, so are male miqo'te. There are actually very few male miqo'te compared to female miqo'te, and certainly not enough to go adventuring (they need to make the babies!) But we still got them as playable. I don't see a reason why Padjal can't become playable with some excuse given like "An entire city of padjal was found hidden in the magic swamp of doom!"

Any pair of miqo'te can wham bam and have a baby miqo'te. There are no restrictions to them. Padjal, however, exist only in a few certain bloodlines, and only come to being when they are chosen by the elementals. They have a very strict criteria for selection, whereas while Miqo'te may birth less males, they are free to have as many as they can.

[TheRogueX]

kids in Skyrim were unkillable because FCC wouldn't allow them to release a game in the US where you could cause the death of children.

This is untrue. The FCC had nothing to do with it. They just didn't want to deal with the fallout that would occur if they did do it.

To be fair, so are male miqo'te. There are actually very few male miqo'te compared to female miqo'te, and certainly not enough to go adventuring (they need to make the babies!) But we still got them as playable.

Miqo'te sex ratio structure seems to be based on the African lion. Males are *not* rare. There may only be one in a pride of females, but that's because he temporarily won the right to be there (the nunh). Eventually he'll be kicked to the curb by another male who was the strongest in his large 'coalition' of males looking to gain breeding rights (the tias). The actual ratio of male to female in lion populations is very close to 50/50.

[Shiro-Koizumi]

I'd love to be able to play as a young male miqote. I like the whole Kid hero trope.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KidHero

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...CuteShotaroBoy

[File2ish]

To be fair, so are male miqo'te. There are actually very few male miqo'te compared to female miqo'te.

I think you mistake Miqo'te for FFXI's Mithra.

And to add to TheRogueX's comment (he speaks of Seekers of the Sun):

The Keepers of the Moon are a matriarchal society, the males generally take the mother's entire name, adding a suffix like 'a, 'to, and 'li to the first name, depending if he is the first, second, third, etc. male child in the family. I think that little tidbit of information tells that Miqo'te males aren't all that rare.

As for 1.0 not having male Miqo'tes, it's kind of hard to say where exactly all the males came from in 2.0. It may be because the game was rushed out with the "It's Final Fantasy, we can do no wrong and it'll sell" mentality. Male Miqo'tes, female Roegadyn, and female Highlanders didn't make appearances either. So it could be SE wanted the game out fast, or the original devs didn't plan for them. I really don't know.

[Corfish]

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I was half-rightish it seems. The Keepers of the Moon are more likely to give birth to females than males, but Seekers seem to be normally balanced. It also states that even though the names go up to 10 males, they rarely have need past the first or second suffix because of the higher birthrates of females.

[Zumi]

Isn't that what Lalafell are for? People who want to play an avatar that looks child like.

[File2ish]

On topic: I'd prefer not to see players running around as child characters in this game. Many of the references, as others have pointed out, do not work well with the notion of people younger than the late teens.

I would like to see more elderly options in character creation though, even if I'd never play as an elderly character. More elderly adventurers would be pretty sweet haha.


And the rest:

I was half-rightish it seems. The Keepers of the Moon are more likely to give birth to females than males, but Seekers seem to be normally balanced. It also states that even though the names go up to 10 males, they rarely have need past the first or second suffix because of the higher birthrates of females.

While there are more females born to the keepers, the Keepers stay in small groups/families rather than a large community like the Seekers. We don't really have the exact numbers for Keepers families either, who's to say how big these families are? I assume if the average family would consist of one male with several females because of the naming conventions stating males are more rare. While I don't know how big one of these families can get with the offspring, the birth rate of males would need to be high enough to keep genetic diversity within the Keepers of the Moon tribe as a whole (so maybe if the mother has 5 or 6 kids, 1 or 2 on average is male, though that ratio might be too favorable for females to keep the diversity in the entire tribe).

So even if male Keepers are more rare, genetic diversity demands there be a consistent population of males, otherwise the Keepers would have died out long before the game takes place.

That is all assuming the Keepers breed with other Keepers only.