Dear gods, I went to sleep and this got almost 20 pages? Sweet Iesu...

So, in general: A furry is not "slap some animal ears and tail in this otherwise completely human character," that's a kemonomimi. A furry is an animal head (usually with human hair, female lion furries tend to have hair, for example), but a humanoid body. Say, a furry giraffe still has a long neck and giraffe head, but human looking body with giraffe tail.

Miqo'te have cat ears and tails but otherwise no fur on their bodies (just strip yours); Viera have bunny ears, but no tails or fur elsewhere (the feet are a nice bestial touch, though); Au Ra have horns that act as ears, tails, and some scales but are otherwise human. Now, Ronsos have lion heads and extra fur in chest, legs, hands, shoulders and back: they're furries.

Now, even IF the male viera get killed off (every. single. one) in the opening of Shadowbringers... it DOESN'T mean we couldn't be one! We can create a character from level one way before that happens, much like how Ishgardians don't even blink if we're an Au Ra, or Yugiri still feels the need to conceal her face while staring directly at us. Even IF they're so rare, even IF males don't leave the forest, we can still be one that DID because the WoL is always an outsider that doesn't really belong to anywhere; unless you yourself give them a backstory, they're not Ishgardian, or Gridanian, or Limsan, or Garlean, or Doman, or anything and the MSQ will never treat you like one. Or like how there can be two WHMs in a party, or 6 in an alliance, yet there's only ONE non-padjali WHM, or one non-tonberry-SCH. Other PCs simply don't exist as anything other than "random adventurers" for the MSQ.

If Yoshi-P said: "No bunny men, because they're weird" then that's a whole other problem which I'm sure has been mentioned several times over this thread, especially the fact that if they think "Oh, bunny boys are just going to be small and delicate" they had all the resources to not make them as such.

Also: that Viera fanart? Yeah, I'd love if my Viera guy looked like THAT <.<