Gender locked race?

[Shougun]

This is why I said it's very much likely that the original creators of Viera will be there in jp fanfest to reveal the male Viera. It's not just something Y.P can decide on. Rather this has to be discussed with them as well in order for it to make sense and to not just be completely out of the vision of what the original creators thought.

Also, Yoshida didn't dislike male viera, he disliked the idea of them being too 'cute' - that's why the concept art in HW didn't look 'cute' they were tall and muscular with stern faces. And that concept art along with the others was also shown which also included male Viera. That to me speaks as if he's already talked to the other creators of tactics/ff12 - they already have ideas on what the male should look like.

It honestly would make zero sense to put forward the idea of Viera as a new race back in HW; then go 'nah, let's not'. The lore hasn't changed since then regarding Viera yet they still made the male concept art and said they wouldn't have just female without a male.

It would be pretty neat if they add male Viera that the creator gets to announce them, that would be something else. Very nice nod. Also I said he wasn't a fan of male viera, as in they were going to feel cute (at least in his eyes). Not a fan should still be an accurate statement (if maybe not very specific), because he didn't like his initial reaction to the idea of male viera (this is true) - he can of course design them to be a way he does like them (or choose to decide he doesn't care if he likes them or not and produce them anyways). Obviously as the forum has shown we can even make Viera look lion-like.

Having a quote of them saying they wouldn't introduce female viera without male viera would be nice, I haven't seen or recall that one but it would be a pretty good quote for the discussion. Would add a lot of weight the other way.

Mostly I'm just here for the speculation fun lol. I am not confident they will not add male Viera (mostly because that seems to be a "lesson learned" already), but with the leaked info and other info I'm having fun figuring out what they'd do.

In order of likelihood I think (in context of the lion info):
A. lion-like male viera, perhaps as a specific clan option type
B. two races
C. non-playable (but I feel this is weird because we have other new races, like the beastmen and the leak didn't mention those like mentioning viera.. I think they would know better?)
D. gender locked races.
E. Yoshi-P is the leaker and has been trolling us because it's fun lol, lions are a lie and that is all they were