The thread about children playable deleted?

[DreadRabbit]

Some of the NPCs flirt with you, too. Usually it's pretty vague but sometimes it's...not so subtle.

I think THIS is more the problem since it was said legal issues were involved. There is a hell of a lot of sexual tension between the PC and several NPCs (even just sidequest NPCs that have nothing to do with the story). So if we got children as a playable characters that would be a lot of dialogue they'd have to change and re-write.

Which truthfully I wish they would do that anyway so that each race was a bit more specialized (like since Au Ra face discrimination, it's a bit odd that people in the ARR quests don't give a chocobo tail feather what you are) when doing the story. But since they've shown they don't even want to do that, I doubt they'd be willing to do so for kid characters. And thus they pull the legal card.

For example, that one quest where the bathing Mi'qote ladies ask you to drive away peeping toms. I don't think they'd take a child seriously threatening them. I don't know what that quest giver says to male PCs, but at least to females she also reveals she has zero problems with you watching her instead. "Bet you didn't think I swung that way, did you~?" Again...that probably wouldn't go well. So that's one quest that would either have to be left out or completely redone.