Which race deserves to be the main protagonist?

[Soge01]

I'm not sure what to pick really. So long as it isn't your typical bland and white human/Hyur I'm game for anything!

I don't mean any offense to what I say above but video games, movies, books, etc really need to stop taking the safe route with making some uninteresting looking bland light skin guy the main protagonist/mascot of every thing. Because out of all the races in this game that get to be featured in FFXIV and all we get is the same old throw up light skin male human/Hyur with nothing particularly special or interesting about him. I still like him but at the same time, like I said before, this whole going the safe route with the same type if main character/mascot for video games such as FFXIV really needs to stop.

[Iscah]

I don't mean any offense to what I say above but video games, movies, books, etc really need to stop taking the safe route with making some uninteresting looking bland light skin guy the main protagonist/mascot of every thing. Because out of all the races in this game that get to be featured in FFXIV and all we get is the same old throw up light skin male human/Hyur with nothing particularly special or interesting about him. I still like him but at the same time, like I said before, this whole going the safe route with the same type if main character/mascot for video games such as FFXIV really needs to stop.

More diversity overall is good, but in the specific case of FFXIV’s generic Midlander guy I feel like it’s okay because he’s not meant to be a distinct character but is effectively one step above a dotted outline saying “insert your character here”. It seems to me that he’s boring by design.

Edit to add: If the “default WoL” had a distinct, interesting appearance, I think you might get a small-but-noticeable amount of people saying “oh, that’s the ‘proper’ design for the hero, so I’ll recreate it instead of making something up” (in the same way that you’re often free to rename RPG characters but many players will keep the default ones) and then you’d have lots of clones of that character. Make him boring, and it’s less likely to happen.