S-E, why so much hate towards the less popular races D: [MAJOR SPOILERS]

[Zari]

As for the person that asked as to why there are so few Au Ra in eorzea lore-wise. It explains that in the Au Ra lore itself. Most Au Ra dont leave their homeland

[Eul]

Blame S-E for not giving the one thing I wanted for elezen. A muscle slider!

IKR. If only all male race got muscle slider, I could stay as catboy. But hell, they're so skinny until now.

My favourite character was Moenbryda (I like female roegadyn), but boom. She dead. WAEE?!

[Jatoi]

The cats could use a bit of a culling by being a villain occasionally that requires an asskicking.

And one that is actually real important too, not something tiny.

[Adire]

You forgot something pretty crucial.

The primary antagonists of the game are all Hyurs in appearance. Ascians.

I've also seen plenty of Miqo'te villains, and I don't even pay that much attention to the story. Seems like there's a degree of confirmation bias here.

[IzVale]

From all the races, I think female Roegadyn is the least liked even among S-E.

That makes us few Roe feel special tho. We're freakin unique! >8D

[Fenral]

Moenbryda's introduction being immediately followed by her death is one of the darkest black marks on this game's storytelling. It was the prefect timing to add a new permanent cast member, and she walks on as a hyper-competent female Roegadyn who has an amazing dynamic with the rest of the cast. Really, though, they just wanted to develop Urianger more, so decided that the ol' Woman in the Refrigerator trope would be the most expedient, and picked a female Roegadyn simply as a way to pretend to be inclusive. Totally wasted character.

G'raha Tia, likewise, was just brimming with potential, not only as our first and (so far) only male Miqo'te with any plot significance, but also the first and only Student of Baldesion, and the first and only (plot twist) Allagan. A shame, because he ultimately serves no narrative purpose that could not have been accomplished by other characters in the story. He exists solely as a means of introducing Doga and Unei, who sacrifice themselves solely to empower him to sacrifice himself, ultimately negating the entire storyline. Why not just introduce them directly and have one stay behind to stop the Cloud of Darkness, and the other put the tower to sleep? In spite of the two hours of questing it took to introduce him, he became a totally wasted character, and a waste of three firsts they can never redo.

Ysayle and Estinien didn't even surprise me. I was just shaking my head at the inevitability.

[Heldraconis]

I think Cid says something about pure blooded Garleans only having a third eye in the MSQ around the time we faced Garuda for the first time.
I can think of three male Miqo'te who are villians. The one in the beastman questlines after you've reached max rank, in one of the postmoogle quests where one of the Miqo'te sisters is part of the gang in the Shroud and in the Monk quests.
There is a female Miqo'te villain in the gladiator quests along with a male Midlander.

[Assirra]

Only thing i wonder about.

Where are all those Au ra vanished to mysteriously? During the main story we had a whole part of all those refugees from Doman and none of the 3 big states wanted them in. This should mean there were quite a bit.
Now they all vanished into thin air except Yugiri pops up very few times during the main story.
I know they are ninja's and all but this is a bit silly.

[Kallera]

Only thing i wonder about.

Where are all those Au ra vanished to mysteriously? During the main story we had a whole part of all those refugees from Doman and none of the 3 big states wanted them in. This should mean there were quite a bit.
Now they all vanished into thin air except Yugiri pops up very few times during the main story.
I know they are ninja's and all but this is a bit silly.

Au ra being given the short end of the societal stick seems to have some precedence in Eorzea...

while this likely doesn't account for every au ra migrant, many are met with persecution or outright slaughter, such as the group with Sidurgu's parents.

Why no guff with an au ra player? Well your an adventurer, and useful. Not everyone is.

[TruebladeNuke]

We have plenty of Miqo'te as well; South Shroud has two gangs of them if you're looking for villains, and I'm fairly sure the Archer and final Beast Tribe quest involved prominent Miqo'te villains, and G'raha Tia might as well be dead...

Was gonna say something along these lines when I read the OP, but you beat me to it. :P

Indeed, if you take to the South Shroud, you'll find plenty of female Miqo'tes (All Moonkeepers at that!) that are aggressive enemies to murder on sight. There's also the Archer quest line that has a female Miqo'te as the main villain of the Archer story, and you spend the level 30 quest filling her full of arrows. Granted, you don't kill her, but depending on your viewpoint, the fact that you left her with the guards and Archer guild members as they come up with a punishment for her... you could be leaving her to a fate worse than death. And going back to the South Shroud, there are two FATE bosses there that are Miqo'te to beat down.

There's also a male Miqo'te villain, as someone else already mentioned, in the beast tribe quest line when you get maximum respect from all the beast tribes. There's also that female Au'Ra in the level 50 to 60 WHM quest line... (Which I have yet to complete, so I'm not 100% where she stands yet. No spoilers on that please... but I have my suspicions)