Evolution of your character

[ValyrianBlood]

wow I love to see all the charcters, even from FFXI and how they changed or not even at all!
I need moar! I dunno why but its really fascinating

also:

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love how much thoughts u put even into little changes of your char!

[Eul]

From filthy dirty Miqo'te (that I put the skin too dark...)



To hunky Highlander (Patch 2.x Screenshot)

[Heliantheae]

I love how many people have freckles!

There are no pictures of my first two characters. But when I started playing, I was a Male Highlander. Kinda looked like Doctor Quest. I didn't really like it and when I got my Phantasia, I became a Female Roe. She had green wavy hair. Then during a fight with Titan, she fell off. And fell for a very long time. From 2.2ish to 3.0 to be precise.

And when she hit the ground she had horns and a tail. Also, a complete mastery of the angry face.



Then she fell off during a fight with Bismarck and became Neptune.



The she was an elf for some reason.



That lasted about two weeks. Now she's a cat.

[AdventZero]

More detailed info in spoiler box below, for those that don't want to read a wall of text and just look at pictures. (editing it in after posting do to limits.)

My character from FFXI.


From early 1.0.


From end of 1.0.


From 2.0 launch.


From mid 2.0


From end of 2.0


From shortly after 3.0 launch.

Picture #1: First a low quality image of my character from FFXI at present, can't find any old pictures of her back in the 75 era were I played as a DRK, lost to time on one of my old PC's most likely.

Picture #2: And now on to FFXIV. I started in 1.0 as the Miqo'te seen below, after class changing for a bit I settled on playing as a GLA.

Picture #3: And again near the end of 1.0 as a PLD, even as people laughed at us and called us lolpld cause WAR was better in every way I stuck it out and wielded my sword and shield till the very end were I became a Legacy Adventurer.

Picture #4: Some time later I would once again play FFXIV when 2.0 was finished, my character carried over poorly, skin color, eye color, even voice, were all off, so after some time in the new character creature she walked on Erozea once more.

Picture #5: Mid 2.0 I felt as if my character was lacking somehow, she just didn't look very good once I stepped back and really looked at her. I didn't have makeup or face paint or anything on her, on top of that her skin was far to far into the red tone (what I call R and Y context, or Red and Yellow), so I set about trying to make her look better. And many potions later this was the outcome. A new cuter hairdo, lip color, cheek blush, a whole new her.

Picture #6: But after a time it just felt like I'd over done it a little, or a lot. and her skin/lip/blush colors still felt wrong. So a many potions later and a good few ours of balancing colors I finally, finally had her looks perfect in my opinion. A nice middle ground on the Red and Yellow tones for her skin, lip color that blended in with her skin only leaving a faint shine on her lips, and check blush that felt simple let nice. I couldn't really find a way to improve her any. And that's how she would remain till the end of 2.0.

Picture #7: Then 3.0 hit, and with it changes to lighting and shadows. The changes suddenly made everything look wrong on my character again, her blush almost couldn't be seen and her lips were a very odd dull brown color different from her skin. Once again many an hour was spent trying to make her look good again. And finally after many tries she looked better even then before. I'm a DRK in the picture but I've been slipping more and more back into my role as a PLD, most like going to be PLD for life through thick and thin!

[SoothingBell]

[Rayeda]

I don't have pictures, but i think my characters evolution has been something like this. Miqo'te -> Hyur(midlander) -> Elezen -> Hyur(highlander) -> Lalafell -> Miqo'te -> Lalafell -> Au Ra -> Lalafell -> Hyur(highlander) -> Lalafell

I think i have found my final form now though <,<

[Seryne]

2.0:

I started off as a Lalafell. It was fun while it lasted but seeing crotch and butt all the time got tiresome.

Two months later in 2.0:

I became a Miqo'te! I kept the grey and red eyes due to the fact that I had them since beta. I kinda didn't like being a Miqo'te after like two days because they're way too common. I honestly don't know why I even switched to one.

2.4:

I'm a FemRoe! I kept seeing FemRoes around the game and I spent a ton of time in the Show Your Roe thread that I became enamoured with their beauty. I had just came back to the game after being gone for nearly a year and buyable fantasias were finally a thing so I bought myself one. I chose Hellsguard initially because my husband is one so I thought he'd like it. That didn't last very long though...

2.5:

Turns out I hated being Hellsguard. Who knew? I'm a sucker for unnatural skintones so I had to go Sea Wolf. Grey skin always seemed so pretty to me so naturally I became a grey goddess. Took my husband some time to get used to but he loves it now.

3.0:

And this is me now! I made some minor tweaks to myself because I didn't feel like I was perfect. I ditched the grey eye and just kept the red one and became blind in the other eye. I got muscley as well because who doesn't love muscley babes? Sadly you can't see it in that picture. The only thing I ever change now is my hair but I'm pretty sure I'm gonna be sticking to my Minfillia hair for a while. Sometimes, though, I feel like changing faces for a certain facial tattoo. Maybe I will some day.

[Antonio_Xul]

Even though I've never changed my main character in anyway, I did create an alternate to be his younger version.


My main character has always been a veteran type character with a grizzled look of experience.


I initially was going to make him bald, but then figured there would many characters like that, so I picked a look that I figured rarely anyone would have, so Beatles mop top with ugly old guy face and Amish beard it was. It turns out bald characters are very rare, but I ended up liking my character the way it is. There hasn't been any new hairstyle I like, so I just kept the same look since 2.0. Highlander is just the only race I physically thinks looks cool, but 90+% always use the same 2 faces, so my least used face looks different from most, especially when I see someone with it, they usually have a full beard. I don't think I've seen another character that looks like me in game yet, so that is good.

[Lolli282]

Man now I WISH I had screenshot everything I made.

First I went AuRa


Not satisfied after getting lala envy I tried tweaking my AuRa every which way and came out with a lilac haired/violet eyed AuRa but lala envy won so I went that route.

First I did a pouted lip green eyed purple haired lala but I STILL wasn't satisfied until I ended up with a pretty teal eyed lala:



After the new hairstyles came out I changed her hairstyle to the one I currently have but I ended up paying the aesthetician 12,000 gil because while I thought I wanted a new hair color I wasn't happy with how they looked in the field so I finally went back to the hair color that kept me happy for so long.



I used 4 or 5 fantasias to create a character I really loved. I fear what will happen to my wallet if I ever get tired of being a lala.

[Kaelah]

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You deffo nailed the unique thing, I've not seen a twin to yours before. :3