Viera as the next new race~ Show your support

[Senn]

Oh, heavens forfend the the thought of having something that's not bound by the laws of our reality. James, please.

So I did a search on google, and although I don't know if it's 100% true, I read that female rabbits tend to be bigger than male rabbits of the same breed.

[Nestama]

I still really don't like how childlike the short Viera look (it'd be more jarring than the Au Ra's and that is saying something). So a compromise. The males can be short (maybe their max height matching the shortest Midlander/Miqo'te male or female), but they still look like adults. Maybe even stocky like a dwarf.

Hey, if Viera do turn out to be a thing and the males turn out to be short, at least give me some form of a Dragon Age/Tokien dwarf race.

[Pomelo]

I'm all for the two tribes, normal viera (both genders) and chibi viera (both genders)

[Senn]

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I'm not a fan of the stocky dwarf aesthetic so I'm gonna pass.

A lot of people say things could get weird if we have childlike races.
We have lalafell. People will argue that lalafells are passable because they do not necessarily have human child proportions.

Now, Yoshi P seems hung up on viera having digitigrade feet if they are ever added into the game. (Even though I would be fine with normal human hands and feet). If Yoshi P decides to add a viera race with digitigrade feet, then obviously, this new race wouldn't have human child proportions, and should be able to pass. If this viera race will have digitigrade feet, rabbit ears, and a tail, then I can argue that lalafells look closer to human children than a viera with these traits would.

[Senn]

^ Also, ffxiv viera might have claws as well.

[Nestama]

A lot of people say things could get weird if we have childlike races.
We have lalafell. People will argue that lalafells are passable because they do not necessarily have human child proportions.

And both male and female Lalafell roughly match the same height and don't look older than one another (Au Ra mostly have a height difference and somewhat of an age difference in appearance. Thankfully, female Au Ra will always look to be in their late teens). Picture a tall female Viera who could look to be in her early thirties, with a husband of the same race who barely grows taller than her knees/waist and looks like a 12 year old (but also in their early thirties).

I'm pretty sure the picture of the 'short' Viera concepts may actually just be a picture of what the Viera children could/world look like (though I find it odd that the females look more rabbit like than the males).

[Senn]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iPdcd-JXB0

[Nestama]

That's two different races. I'm talking about the exact same race, but one growing to look like an adult and the other who seems to stop growing and ageing at the age of 12 (but is still technically an adult because reasons that make no sense). That's no bueno.

Heck, the childlike Viera don't look that much different from the Miqo'te children (the males don't exist yet, so can only compare the female Miqo'te and Viera children).

[Senn]

That's two different races.

Why does it matter?

[Nestama]

Why do you want, or rather, why are you fine with children (you can't compare them to Lalafell. They're similar in appearance to Miqo'te children) being playable? I don't see the appeal and it makes more sense and appear less creepy to make them look like adults (even if they're short), hence the rabbit-dwarf.