Love for the female characters

[Alacran]

I have an appreciation for many of the female characters in the game. I genuinely hope Minfilla gets another shot at being a better character, same with Lyse. Alisaie is fairly great as she is and i hope she continues to grow into her character. Personally i hope Alianne Vellegrance gets more attention and eventually becomes a more supporting character to the MSQ. Hilda gives me hope we'll eventualy get half elezen as a sub race for Elezen down the road. Y'shtola is perfect, i don't what the future holds but 5.0 can't get here fast enough.

By and far Yotsuyu was my favorite character bar none.

Spoilers for 4.0 MSQ

While she was certainly a horrible person, I feel she was a product of her history. I truly enjoyed her character arc though i hated how it ended. Even so, it felt right... As if there was no possible way such a story could end happily making it all the more beautifully tragic.

[Vidu]

I haven't posted on forums in a very long time especially with a post this long so I deeply apology for my stupidity.

I based my statements on what I've seen, hear and experienced though game, forums and twitter. I could be entirely wrong about how much a certain character gets talked about but I just wanted to hear from a specific view. The flirty section was a bit of a joke from my experience so I thought I'd add that in there but I'm not complaining just found it a little odd is all. No offence to anyone see something I'm not. Btw yeah Moenbryda's death hit me pretty hard too. ;-;

I think your impression that a lot of people only talk about Y'shtola when it comes to female characters of the game is related to her being the "postergirl" of the game and from her representing FFXIV in Dissidia - so Y'shtola has a lot more "audience" compared to every other female character in the game.

Another thing that might contribute to seeing less talk about specific female characters might actually be that we have more female characters in prime positions than males! If you want to fanboy over a male character, you're basically limited to Aymeric, Haurchefaunt, Hien, Raubahn... maybe Estienien, maybe Alphinaud... I'm sure I'm still forgetting a few you could fanboy about and I want to apologise to all those Arenvald-fans out there who I offended just now!

With female characters the general attention can (and probably is) spread a lot more between Minfilia, Lyse/Yda, Y'shtola, Tataru, Ysalye, Moenbryda, Hilda, Yugiri, Zhloe, Khloe, Nanamo, Kan-E, Merlwyb, Naago, Kurenai, Alisiea, Krile, Yotsuyu, Fordola... I could go on.
So, for the males you devide the community into 5 or 6 groups with a certain preference - for the females... I'm pretty sure everyone in my FC could pick a different females as their favorite (and probably did).

[Burningskull]

I have an appreciation for any of the female characters in the game. I genuinely hope Minfilla gets another shot at being a better character, same with Lyse. Alisaie is fairly great as she is and i hope she continues to grow into her character. Personally i hope Alianne Vellegrance gets more attention and eventually becomes a more supporting character to the MSQ. Hilda gives me hope we'll eventualy get half elezen as a sub race for Elezen down the road. Y'shtola is perfect, i don't what the future holds but 5.0 can't get here fast enough.

By and far Yotsuyu was my favorite character bar none.

Spoilers for 4.0 MSQ
[/HBWhile she was certainly a horrible person, I feel she was a product of her history. I truly enjoyed her character arc though i hated how it ended. Even so, it felt right... As if there was no possible way such a story could end happily making it all the more beautifully tragic.[/HB]

I liked Yotsuyu much more than Fordola. Felt so sorry for Yotsuyu.

[EdwinLi]

I liked Yotsuyu much more than Fordola. Felt so sorry for Yotsuyu.

Yep, her importance the story is more than just being a antagonist but a person created by the flaws of Doma's society people ignored due to tradition. Something by the end that Hein has taken note about and promised to change in his rule so no one will become another Yotsuyu nor suffer the fate she had to endure.

her design is one of the well made female characters as well and I still like to see her outfit and hair style introduced into the game for player use. Sadly I heard somewhere the development team may never introduced her outfit and hair style due to how there maybe issue making it work for normal player character movements.

[Jaywalker]

Btw that's another thing as to why there's so much fawning for male NPCs is that they literally flirt with our character and none of the female NPCs do which is just bizarre.

Lol I do disagree with you there. "Come take a swim with me WoL", "lets have a sparring match just the two of us WoL", "observe as I stretch in a way that shows off my exposed and insanely fit midriff in mid-conversation WoL". XD I adore Lyse and her character development to pieces, and honestly more than almost any other character I felt like she was smacking the WoL over the head with flirting. WoL also does the :O!!!! looking her up and down saying how good looking she is in her new outfit. It's at a point where I'd feel hard-pressed not to see it as flirty with any WoL.

I originally wasn't into Lyse when she was introduced in ARR as Yda because she came across as one-note, but was totally won over in Stormblood. Y'shtola I am still pretty apathetic about, although the "little sun" bit won points with me. Minfilia too tbh, and while I care a bit more about Yugiri I think her potential hasn't been reached. More invested in F'lhaminn. Adore Alisaie, Sadu, Kurenai, Krile, Nanamo, Lucia, Hilda, Ysayle, Suzaku, Cirina, Nashu, Julyan, Matoya... even Yotsuyu and Fordola, if in a more complicated way. Don't really hate female characters but I'm probably most apathetic about Minfilia currently. Need to see more personality from her I think, more concrete details.

I still adore Aymeric and Estinien, don't get me wrong. Haurchefant I find interesting in some ways but not as attached compared to the other two. I don't think it needs to be a contest really. Have no problem with people fanning over the guys (it's actually refreshing compared to fandoms where that kind of thing has been repressed and been driven underground) but I'd love to see more celebration for the ladies too.

[Enla]

Yep, her importance the story is more than just being a antagonist but a person created by the flaws of Doma's society people ignored due to tradition. Something by the end that Hein has taken note about and promised to change in his rule so no one will become another Yotsuyu nor suffer the fate she had to endure.

her design is one of the well made female characters as well and I still like to see her outfit and hair style introduced into the game for player use. Sadly I heard somewhere the development team may never introduced her outfit and hair style due to how there maybe issue making it work for normal player character movements.

They talked about it during the EU Fanfest this year actually. Her design was modified several times due to said limitation and the design they finally settled on worked for a character who is inherently non-combat oriented, but likely very much wouldn't have for anyone else. They talk about it here in the fanfest transcript Reddit made though you're going to have to scroll down to find it. Here is one of the slides though.

[Burningskull]

Yep, her importance the story is more than just being a antagonist but a person created by the flaws of Doma's society people ignored due to tradition. Something by the end that Hein has taken note about and promised to change in his rule so no one will become another Yotsuyu nor suffer the fate she had to endure.

her design is one of the well made female characters as well and I still like to see her outfit and hair style introduced into the game for player use. Sadly I heard somewhere the development team may never introduced her outfit and hair style due to how there maybe issue making it work for normal player character movements.

If I remember right. At the EU Q and A Yoshida was asked this question. He replied something along the lines of "didn't you see yesterdays concept art panel?" He then mentioned something about asking the concept artist that made Yotsuyu and she said something along the lines of, "Well I designed it with movement in mind so..." Who knows?

[Lexun]

Why do the male NPCs never flirt with my character?!? Big boys want love too!

On a serious note would be nice if there was a "relationship system" where you can eventually marry an NPC character and have it effect our story in a semi personal way.

[Vidu]

Why do the male NPCs never flirt with my character?!? Big boys want love too!

On a serious note would be nice if there was a "relationship system" where you can eventually marry an NPC character and have it effect our story in a semi personal way.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/pr/blog/000692.html

Enjoy!

...but be adviced its only an old aprils fools joke... be also adviced that LoV started out that way...

[Jaywalker]

On a serious note would be nice if there was a "relationship system" where you can eventually marry an NPC character and have it effect our story in a semi personal way.

Just want to say AMEN.