Viera as the next new race~ Show your support

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My main issue with Viera is that they're just not unique in design and it doesn't help we got Au Ra first (even less so after seeing the concept art). Humans with animal parts. So fascinating.

I'll give them a pass if SE can release them with their 'beast feet,' as that could mean SE might be able to make beastmen races playable someday, but if they can't do that, then I'll hate them as much as I hate the Au Ra :T

I never understood why unique always has to mean crazy different. You can have a 'human with animalparts' and still have it be unique relative to the other races through their lore, build, and mannerisms without also giving them weird feet, snouts or wings made of goldfishscales or something. At least thats how I see it.
But I guess uniquenness, like many things, is in the eye of the beholder. *shrug*

(As for the Beastman as playable races, while I see why some people may want that I personally don't think thats ever gonna happen. Not because of technical reasons, but simply because the games lore and Story are not set up for that possibility. And I don't see SE wanting to fiddle around with that)

I need Viera to be tol ladies, pls. Taller than their male counterparts, at least for one clan.
Plus who doesn't wanna see some cute shortie boys running all over the place with bunny ears and a little butt floof?

But they absolutely need to be the masculine versions (which I think would add to the awesome of the males being shorter than their amazonian female counterparts). I really like the fact that rabbits are thought as gentle, fluffy prey-like critters, but Viera are totally BA warriors.

I know they'll likely do so anyway, but can we maybe not suggest SE to take the easy way out again? I'd really like them to go all out for once and put the work in by giving us both versions they've shown us.
Rather then just giving us Reverse-Au Ra...

I would totally be okay if they had like... two clans of Viera (even though I'm pretty sure white haired Viera & dark haired Viera are two separate clans in FF12) where one is adult and powerful looking, etc. (as shown in the first post's example), with the second clan being lalaesque. Both of best worlds, yenno? For people who want to play adult, cool looking viera, they can. If they want to play childlike fluffy viera they can. Although, that is asking a LOT so, can we just have the ff12 versions, plz?/bats lashes

Actually there were 3 Subtribes of Viera. The Veena (light, mostly white-silver hair), the Rava (darker hair, though they never specified whether the colour is natural or not) and later on they introduced the Feol (shorter stature and ears, usually blond hair). Sounds familiar, doesn' it? Tall amazonesses and a shorter, more childish variation?
I also don't think its asking a lot of SE to do both. More like asking them to do their jobs and make use of the concepts they introduced. If they wanna keep the Subraces they may as well actually make them different rather then simply making them paletteswaps and writing two descriptions and then calling it a day.
I mean, the whole Subrace-thing is wasted as is; just look at Elezen: So the supposedly cave-dwelling Duskwights, for some reason, are still as just as tall as their Wildwood brethren, rather then being, dunno, shorter and more stocky(?not sure this is the right word?), like you'd expect a cavedweller to look like usually. Think FFX's Guado for reference. But no; pallette swap... I'd like to avoid that for the Viera.