Quote Originally Posted by Cilia View Post
If my (unverified) sources are right, Nael was always a woman in the JP version, but due to using masculine Japanese pronouns was translated as a man. Since there was very little voicework in 1.x, there was no context for "his" voice, so there was no conflict in translating her as being male. Then the Coil comes around, and Nael is revealed to be a woman... so they said Bahamut got EN!Nael wrong and "accidentally" gave him a sex change when reconstructing his body.

Only possible due to lack of voices and quirks with Japanese pronouns. Done deliberately to shock the players a la Samus Aran back in the original Metroid.
Hmm, if this is indeed the case then I would honestly have thought less of it if Nael hadn't commented on the new body him/herself. They could easily have just revealed Nael to be female and left us to speculate that she used some kind of magitek voice altering device in the helmet. Having the whole unexplained identity of the 'new' female form only makes this feel messy and unfinished if it's actually just a cover for Nael being female all along.

Moose was asking about the combat voice pack that Nael used earlier and it was male in the localized client. As far as I'm aware those voice packs are actually universal and not unique to specific localizations so Nael likely had a male voice pack in the JP client too. At that point it seems to me that this big reveal would make as little sense to the JP players as it does to us.