Shorter elezen necks

[giantslayer]

Elezen basically have human sized heads with larger than human bodies that are still proportioned the same as human bodies. This results in the feeling that they have "shrunken heads." On male Elezens, this generally looks passable, since the typical hyper-masculine superhero proportions have larger bodies in proportion to their normal-sized heads. On females, however, it just looks unnatural in a bad way.

My thought on this is that what Elezen need is actually narrower bodies, not wider heads. Widening the head and shortening the neck as he OP suggested would get them pretty close to looking like big humans with elf ears. Narrowing their bodies instead would give them a tall, lanky look, which would keep them in being unique.

Another thought for this is that in the character creator should change just the height for the body, not the size of the head or the width of the body. This could make Elezen vary from unnaturally tall and lanky down to something relatively close to human on the bottom of the scale.


In general, though, Elezen aren't terribly popular, and the reason is their proportioning makes females especially look very unnatural. Revamping Elezen would increase their popularity and hence the diversity without having to make a whole new race.


EDIT: I did a crude photoshop of an existing Elezen image to show what it would look like with a narrower body, since a picture is worth a thousand words.