Where the ROES at!?

[Jaywalker]

This is my (currently archer) fem roe alt! Still need to level her, but I've had some fun on the blogging side of lodestone with her. Two other players jumped up with me after talking about the idea of a soft/gentle visual approach to roegadyns.

I don't main my roe for two reasons, these being because I love playing BLM and picked my main first. If I had to guess why they're not as big with other players though, I'd say it's probably because they offer certain design challenges and not everyone knows what to do with them.

Roes are bigger and more solid comparatively, with smaller eyes and often wider mouths. Big eyes will draw attention and create a more open, innocent, softer look. Mouth focus tends to come across as harder. With these things in combination lady roes often get interpreted as very tough or with a dark/somewhat goth approach to femininity, much less conventional. Male roes people tend to not know what to do with them a lot of the time, since they don't fit within conventional guy standards of attractiveness. Add needing to use hair and glamour to proportion roes to their best advantage and people are often left going ???

Basically they're a kind of fashion hard mode in a way haha, and I think most folks just don't know how to work the strengths of those features/body types according to the tone hey're going for. it's easier to make a tough looking roe than a tough looking miqo'te or female au ra. Therefore you'll more likely get people who want imposing or visually tough characters in roe. While i think there's value there too, I also figure that's a less popular aesthetic than dainty or cute.

Also people have mixed opinions on color schemes and the black noses stuff.

[Aeirou]

I’ll post a picture of my roe later, but I agree with your sentiment. I actually told a friend of mine that I think one of the reasons Fem Roes aren’t more common is when you’re in the creation screen, the female roe is very imposing and looks like she’s wearing drag. It’s not easy to make them into attract female characters. There’s a lot of armor styles that I outright avoid because the size of the roe makes the armor look strange, but I still find ways to make my her look both elegant and badass. I think most of the female roes we do see are alt characters.