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[Nestama]

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)

It's a personal gripe, mostly. I want there to be more options than different flavours of humans. At the moment the only race I like is Roegadyn (male and female, but mostly male).
As for the beastman lore argument, Lupin are probably exceptions to the rule. They're considered citizens in Doma and Garleans do not kill them on sight (whereas they planned to kill the Zundu if we didn't intervene) and even have/had them in their army. One was even allowed into Gridania (sure it was a seasonal event, but they have lore in the world as well).

[ArcaneCarbuncle]

It's a personal gripe, mostly. I want there to be more options than different flavours of humans. At the moment the only race I like is Roegadyn (male and female, but mostly male).
As for the beastman lore argument, Lupin are probably exceptions to the rule. They're considered citizens in Doma and Garleans do not kill them on sight (whereas they planned to kill the Zundu if we didn't intervene) and even have/had them in their army. One was even allowed into Gridania (sure it was a seasonal event, but they have lore in the world as well).

I can respect that. As said, I can see why people would like bestial races; and if this was a different game I'd probably support the Idea myself, but being the realist I am I just don't see it happening.
(I can also understand the 'only liking one race' thing; I've been through all of them at this point, and Lalafell off all things turns out to be the only race I don't have some sort of gripe with, lol. In fact, I guess the short-ish Viera would likely be another thing I'd like)

Lupin are an odd case, while they are totally fine in Othard I'm not quite convinced they'd be as welcome in Eorzea, at least not without some serious prejudice. And with Eorzea being the place the game starts at...
The Lupin during the Halloween event was interesting too, but, while seasonal events are canonical, I'm not sure the stories told through them are. Not to mention that particular Lupin was only allowed because people thought he was some guy in a costume, or at least thats how I remember it.