Gender locked race?

[Emmanellain]

*sigh* This is like...my dream...

Edit: Personally, I'd give my bunboy white hair in that short cut style most male toons have. The one with the shaved sides and back and the cornrows on one side? But the overall idea here makes me swoon.

That would be the first time the males are shorter than the females, I kinda support it, they could be short and agile in the jungle and it would make females look more amazonian.

[Theodric]

I'd rather see them be of equal height.

[Crushnight]

I'd rather see them be of equal height.

That would be a 1st for ffxiv be interesting to see a race that has exactly the same max and min height for both genders would mean to put more emphasis on physical differences between them

[stormygabe]

Poor Alphinaud, he will be forever alone.
Not that I want the bunbros to look kiddish, but i mean, we have literal toddlers with pointy ears running around. (lalafells)
Since you lorewise can't tell the difference between a female or male viera until they hit puperty I imagine they're elegant, ballet dancer-ish with a slender physique. You know, amano-looking pretty men, players could have an option to have height and face options that enable them to look sexy or cute according to the players wish? That should satisfy a number of players no?

The lalafell point is a decent one I think. I wouldn't mind them looking like Alphinaud either tbh. So either Alphinaud pretty or Aymeric pretty would be fun for me.

[Gwenorai]

I wouldn't mind a cross between Aymeric pretty boy and Hein - I want his facial hair. Bah, it's not exactly hard for them to create 'pretty handsome' men, they've done it before multiple times. Example of the top of my head that was the closest in Viera hairstyle etc that I could think of.




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[Lacan]

Personally, I think a mix of highlander + au ra would suit male viera the best. Very tall and fierce looking, but muscular. That's what I picture when I think "guardians of the forest" anyway.

Or they could make them look like the big chungus. :v "Big Chungus" is a top tier male Viera name regardless.

[Bright-Flower]

Poor Alphinaud, he will be forever alone.
Not that I want the bunbros to look kiddish, but i mean, we have literal toddlers with pointy ears running around. (lalafells)
Since you lorewise can't tell the difference between a female or male viera until they hit puperty I imagine they're elegant, ballet dancer-ish with a slender physique. You know, amano-looking pretty men, players could have an option to have height and face options that enable them to look sexy or cute according to the players wish? That should satisfy a number of players no?

Not necessarily really. Keep in mind that au ra dimorphism doesn't kick in until puberty either IIRC. So them looking similar pre puberty doesn't necessarily imply anything about what a developed viera male looks like one way or another.

[wereotter]

I actually like the idea of the males looking more 'attractive' than the females. Though here's a thing, if they're so rare in number and the likes. Who fights for whos attention? Do females have to compete with other females to get a males attention? One line the Dramaturge shared was regarding 'souls' so I thought of took it that they had soul mates or something and perhaps bonded with a specific female? But at the same time? Hmm... It honestly makes me curious about how that works. Or is it futurama snoo snoo type of deal - then yeah, the dudes really need that damn endurance.


And yeah, I'm firmly against shota/loli type Viera. Just nope.

I would presume that if your species is majority female, the societal conventions we use as humans doesn’t work. If males are only 1-4 of all Viera, and the form monogamous pair bonds, then half of the pool of mature adults will be excluded from procreating. This would mean populations would die off unless that pair have at least 5 children together. More likely it’s probably accepted within the society that a single male will have many female partners. A single male probably will have 2-3 assuming they form bonds with each other at all.

With the males spending so much time away from the settlements, though, it’s more likely a single male may have relations with more females than that when he visits a village, and a female may do the same with whatever visiting male catches her attention.

[Lacan]

It sounds to me like the male and female Viera aren't interested in having actual relationships with each other. Seems like they only interact for the express purpose of procreating. At least that is the vibe I got from the dramaturge.

[Gwenorai]

It sounds to me like the male and female Viera aren't interested in having actual relationships with each other. Seems like they only interact for the express purpose of procreating. At least that is the vibe I got from the dramaturge.

From what I got from the Dramaturge is that they don't care about distance, or distance between the two bodies means nothing to them as they may be able to communicate through long distance thy Green Word?