Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XLI discussion

[Theodric]

As if FF isn't littered with characters that already look androgynous...

Kuja, Sephiroth (I mean, that long hair though...), Caius, Ardyn with that pink hair...there are so many examples throughout the series.

I wouldn't consider Sephiroth, Caius or Ardyn to be particularly feminine or androgynous. Kuja? Certainly.

There's plenty of characters who look masculine.

It's a matter of balance and there's been countless threads over the years where players have been asking for more options for masculine male customisation, including over on the Japanese boards which are notorious for loving the 'cute' and 'androgynous' aesthetics.

There have also been people outright stating that the only reason they play a female character is simply due to feeling like males receive less attention and options for customisation in comparison.

Honestly? I blame the people who complain about gender locked stuff. I'm all about gender equality, but making nothing gender specific just means they have to design it for both genders which means it doesnt really look great on either one, since its not "this is for females, and this is for males"

Yeah, I'm of the same mind. I'm not opposed to it but I want to see such things scaled back a bit and for there to be a bit more variety. I've been wanting to see more short hairstyles added to the game for a while now. I'm not opposed to longer hairstyles, though - I'm using one right now, in fact, as my avatar shows. Though it helps that the hairstyle is the same as Trey's hairstyle in Type-0 - so it was designed specifically with a male in mind. They managed to make it look pretty good on both genders, though the same cannot be said of a lot of the others.