Gender locked race?

[Rokke]

Maybe, but people have also shown interest in different body sizes and shapes.

I think the biggest rift I've seen are between people who want a manly tall elezen type male Viera and the little bunny boy we saw in the concept art. I honestly don't think the faces are what people are arguing about lol.

In the event you weren't around for the previous Viera request thread, the females were in a similar camp pre-Fran reveal where some wanted the usual tall+lean females and others wanted small+cute based on that one concept art.

The two most popular ideas for male body type are tall+moderately muscular and small+cute. Without going the middie/highlander split, choosing 1 and giving the options to make something cute or rugged covers the most bases of what people want. You can make a googly eyed, puffy cheeked, min height catboy. Or you can make a max height, wrinkled catboy with chops and scars. Midlanders are pretty similar with their customization and I think thats why they're the two most popular male picks, you can do so much with them.

Indeed. The 'cute' faces also look so very bizarre on au ra and elezen.

Anecdotal, but the cute Au Ra face is the 2nd most used one I see in-game behind Magnai's face.