Quote Originally Posted by Zyrusticae View Post
This whole thread just amuses me so greatly.

I wonder if any of you people objecting will be playing Blade & Soul, and if so, if you'd be just as obnoxious about this stuff as you are here. I certainly look forward to all the disgusted outbursts when some blowhards see a Lyn in a bikini. "YOU DISGUSTING PEDO" etc., disregarding that the player is just some lady who likes to play cute things and sometimes puts one in a bikini because she thinks they're cute in one. That'll be a riot!

Or maybe you guys will pass up on the game entirely because of the inclusion of the Lyn, which would be hilarious to me because, seriously, it's an excellent game and it'd be just as much the same as passing up on FFXIV entirely because Lalafell are a thing (and I'm sure there are some people who state this as a reason, but I'll laugh at them as much as I'll laugh at people objecting to the Lyn). Depriving yourself of an experience you would greatly enjoy because of some insane moral obsession towards those who enjoy a single benign element is just the height of absurdity.

I'll keep playing characters like this no matter how 'gross' you think it is or how much you're certain I'm 'encouraging pedophilia' by 'welcoming their presence' (lol). And companies are going to continue to create races catering to people like me because we exist, and we're of a surprisingly large number, and you can't stop the tide. Have fun fighting your losing battle. I'm sure that'll get you places.

I won't be playing Blade and Soul personally, but even if some of us did, the characters in B&S are all depicted as adults. There's no children and no race that is designed to look like a child either, AFAIK. So sexualization is acceptable, even if somewhat taboo in certain crowds.