Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[Lauront]

Let us hope maybe the Devs will make the Other clan much like Midlander vs Highlander so that everyone gets what they want!

That would be ideal. It's just a case of whether they'd be willing to expend that many resources on it.

Because saying either of those would scratch the same itch as a buff male Viera is being really reductive in what races offer. It's focusing on the one aspect of them and ignoring the overall package. The aesthetics themselves overall are different, before we get into the animations and mannerism, and of course, for those of us who care for that sort of thing, attached lore.
It's part of why when I made one of my alts, I wanted her to be a fem Au Ra but ended up going with a fem Miqo'te. They both fit the niche of petite waifus but they're not interchangeable. Playing one is a vastly different experience to playing the other.

Au Ra men have all those horns, tails and scales after all, plus the very sharp faces. It's reductionist in the extreme to put all that aside and just focus on body type. I mean, whether they model them off of Au Ra or Elezen, they'll resemble something in the end, so I think it's a non-starter either way.

but I care very little for the aesthetic of a male Elezen, and if they replicate it into male Viera it would dampen some of my enjoyment of the race.

I could live with it if they did a good job of adding fluidity and removing the awkwardness... but at the same time, why not just do that with Elezen in the first place? The race deserves a re-visit.

Your bias is showing. If anything, so far I've seen more support for the artworks that showecased beefier bunnies. All we can do is each show support for what we prefer, and let the devs decide which to go with.

As was brought up in the thread before, this is a thread first and foremost about the inclusion of male Viera in the game, period. You should not show preference for any specific design in the op, both because it would show an inaccurate image of what people in the thread feel like to the devs, as well as perhaps ward away people who want to support male Viera, but "not like that"

Exactly. Quite honestly, I think the Omega-M physique isn't much different to an Elezen's or Midlander's anyway, so it's not like it's some distinctive body type, and while it's not the end of the world if they add it, it's not really what I'd want as a first preference.

To be fair, no one wants them to be Roes. But if they'll be more like male Au Ra than male Elezen, I personally will be quite the happy camper.

Same here.

Aye, just give them a muscle/tone slider that actually shows a difference and I'll be very much happy. As long as they're not having that silly au'ra dimorphism and not looking like bloody shota. I really don't understand why people seem to assume that if you want muscles then you should sod off to another muscular race - like that's the same thing? No, that's like telling everyone who wants to play as an elegant race to play Elezen or if you want to be small, go play a lalafell or a minimum height Miqo'te and just slap bunny ears on them. It's not nice is it?

That'd be cool, too, but I'd eat Billy's hat (since I lack one) if they ever added such a muscle slider. Really would love it, though, especially if it could also be retrofitted to the old races... it'd probably need a bigger graphics system overhaul to accompany it, however such a thing may be in time for 6.0 anyway.