Shorter elezen necks

[Millerna]

Or we can just leave them as they are. Unless you also want to every other race changed because some random person doesn't like 1 aspect of them. And then of course, the change will anger people who are playing that race, and want the change reverted, and it'll never end.

[Mikhaill]

Trope seen in most manga and anime where hands are drawn proportionally way too large for the rest of the body, usually belonging to the dominant males.

To extrapolate, most yaoi is drawn by amature/dojin artists that just aren't... Very good at this art thing yet, or have a crap budget to work with. Thus, the sub-genre's infamous proportion issues, with giant hands being the most notable.

It's to the point where you can eyeball a manga with purposefully giant handed men and know it's yaoi or boys love.

The more you know~~

Looked it up, 5am and I am already done with the internet for the day.

and then I saw this random thing...

And this is an Elezen about to mangrab a Lala, please help my eyes...

[Eimian_Eda]

The salt in this thread....

At least "Weird Yaoi Anatomy" came out of this.

[Norleas]

The salt in this thread....

Elezens are serious about their necking

[Eimian_Eda]

Elezens are serious about their necking

They are... and it's scary ;__;

[Atoli]

I'm not even that disturbed by the size, you can just trick yourself into thinking it is the perspective with the hand being a lot closer than the owner of the hand.
But WHY does it have so many knuckles. Why are there 3 joints per finger?! It looks like a spider somehow T_T

On the actual topic of this thread:
I think the Elezen necks are fine. Well, not anatomically right-looking, okay. But every race needs their little pet peeve, like the Miqo butts and the Elezen necks and Au Ra's horn-face lock, so..
What I'm more weirded out by is the length of my Au Ra's neck, because that makes no goddamn sense at all for it to be so long too °-°

[Norleas]

Give him pointy ears and that's literally an elezen

[Averax]

What I'm more weirded out by is the length of my Au Ra's neck, because that makes no goddamn sense at all for it to be so long too °-°

I find the Au Ra male necks to be perfectly proportioned. They don't seem too long or too short to me. However, I assume you're referencing the females, given your avatar.

I think one could say their necks look off because they are designed to look like a generic anime highschool girl. Larger head, skinnier neck, default pose causes feet to point inward, shorter stature. Female Au Ra are basically every anime highschool girl ever.

But in the case of males, every time i think about making an Elezen male i end up going Au Ra instead, as they are just more proportionally pleasant.

[Celef]

Then why not just give the possibility then, like a lot of MMO do today ?
Those who want to stay the way they are can, those who want smaller neck can, everyone is happy and we can all eat cake together :3

[Rhysati]

As someone who roleplays an Elezen(and thus their appearance is the most important thing to me), leave my Elezen neck alone! First and foremost, I made the character because I like how she looks. If she gets changed, she won't be the character I intended her to be any more. Her looks play a big part in her personality.

But more importantly: I have seen people in the thread say things like that they wanted to play an Elezen, but because of their neck they played a Hume instead. All that tells me is that you want to play a human character. So do it. Elezen have a few things unique to their body structure that make them not just look like a blown up human. And other than Lalafels they are the only race that isn't just a human scaled to a different size and recolored with some added tails, ears, and horns.

I WISH every race looked more unique than they do, but unfortunately we are stuck with everyone just being different representations of humans. It's bad enough as it is, please stop trying to make everyone into the same thing.