Dear Devs, can you let us know if the Aesthetician will allow Au Ra to change Limbal?

[TitaniaZero]

The more the Aesthetician can change the less reason for the Fantasia purchases.

I myself would love more control over changes. Sometimes I would like to change eye color. Sometimes height. Sometimes skin color. So I would like it. But I can see why they have such a strict control over what can and can't be changed.

[Taiyoji]

I too would love to change my eye color >.>

[kyuven]

This so much. I don't know why they don't add eye color at the list really... we can use lenses in real life so why cant we change eye color in game? -_-

Barring magical alchemical stuff (which is what fantasias are, let's not kid ourselves here) there's no existing technology to produce contact lenses that would be practical for adventuring.
Namely, plastic is not a thing in eorzea, so the contact lenses would have to be glass. The contact lenses we have now in the real world are slightly uncomfortable if they so much as move...can you imagine the damage glass ones would cause?
...you don't, actually, since glass contact lenses have been around as long as the technology to create them has been. The damage they can cause is pretty well documented.

[LineageRazor]

Namely, plastic is not a thing in eorzea, so the contact lenses would have to be glass.

The Garleans have robots and other machines, to the likelihood is high that they have developed plastics, and as Eorzea does have access to a lot of Garlean advancements by way of Cid's Ironworks (not to mention captured enemy technology and black market trade), there plenty of room in the lore to allow for contact lenses, if we want them to be available from our aesthetician. It's just a matter of SE allowing it to happen.

I wouldn't count on it happening, though; I'd guess eye color change is a big part of the market for Fantasia, and gotta keep those dollars rollin' in!

[Riepah]

Barring magical alchemical stuff (which is what fantasias are, let's not kid ourselves here) there's no existing technology to produce contact lenses that would be practical for adventuring.
Namely, plastic is not a thing in eorzea, so the contact lenses would have to be glass. The contact lenses we have now in the real world are slightly uncomfortable if they so much as move...can you imagine the damage glass ones would cause?

Care to explain the lore reason as to why the Aesthetician can change limbal ring colours, then?

[Aizzi]

Care to explain the lore reason as to why the Aesthetician can change limbal ring colours, then?

<headcannon>
Have you guys not seen eyeball tattooing?


On humans its hideous. Clearly some people disagree, no accounting for taste. That pic is not screaming final fantasy esthetic to me though....

The Au'Ra, however, happen to have a limbal ring that takes ink well. (maybe its porus... eww). So eyeball tattooing is easy to do on the limbal ring, and, it looks good there. So the esthetician, who offers each race only what will suite them, will only eyeball tattoo the Au'Ra.
</headcannon>

[kyuven]

The Garleans have robots and other machines, to the likelihood is high that they have developed plastics

Actually given their technology level, it's unlikely they have access to plastic. Everything we've seen is metal. Also, they're the enemy. The only reason we have their technology at all is because of Cid.
Plastic was a huge deal and didn't really start showing up until the mid-1800s, with any sort of practical contact lenses not showing up until 1887.
It's generally understood that the Garleans represent "industrial revolution" level technology with a few liberties likely due to magic. Basically, they don't have plastics widely available but it's entirely possible some Garlean chemists have come up with it in a lab somewhere.
But again they're GARLEAN chemists. This is literally akin to us living in the Wild West while some guy in Germany invents contact lenses. They just aren't going to get to us with any decent speed, ESPECIALLY since we're at war.

Care to explain the lore reason as to why the Aesthetician can change limbal ring colours, then?

Cuz they're basically tattoos as Aizzi pointed out.

[Edellis]

Still makes more sense than drinking a potion to change race and gender, honestly.

Oh god, here we go...


*clicks on final page*

*people arguing about lore and practical limits on character changes*



*Sigh*....yep.


Fantasia is lore'd into the game because they made it a feature, but the feature is clearly not designed to be accessible, which is why it's behind a $$$ price tag on the mogstation, and not just a 2,000,000 gil untradable purchase, which could have worked equally as well as a limiting feature. There's no point bringing up its lore backing, while also pretending to ignore how limited a feature it's intended to be.

You make your character, you get 1 vial of failsafe if you want to look different. After that, either cough up the $$$ or live with your character. There's really no weight to gender, race, regional traits or facial features if you can literally change them at your whim. That is so lame.


The devs DO NOT want you changing your structural appearance or your name, but they allow you to because you'll pay to do it. End of story. The lore is built around this more than anything.

[Mugiawara]

The jealousy in this thread is high.

it's not jealousy, it's the fact they lied and said the guy could change eye colours upon release and lied. he's still messing with the eyeballz! implement the eye colour changing for everyone. it's only fair. (on.mobile.)

[Kanti]

Frankly if you're allowed to change scars on your face, just open up all options to change, because why not? Who cares if there is no lore justification? For real. I'd like the ability to change skin tone, as well, but not so much that I'd ever spend $10 to do so.