Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[Lauront]

Besides, I'm pretty sure FrischeNq is a Japanese artist, anyway.

[TheRealJoJo]

Hello, people. Been following this thread since the very first reply to this thread and have read literally every single post thus far. I created an account specifically to throw a like and support male Viera and female Hrothgar for my own reasons, but I wanted to post something here after all this lurking.

Ah yes segregation is best. Foreigners should never interact. Keep the races separate but equal!

It isn't about a segregation of communities, but a segregation of languages. If I was to come in here and speak entirely in Spanish (which happens I'm sure), would that be appropriate? This is the EN forums, so you should speak in English. If you're visiting the JP forums, you should speak in Japanese. Hopping in and posting just a picture with literally no discussion is spam, and doesn't really bring anything to the table.
No one cares if you can speak Japanese but live in the States and you post exclusively on the JP forums. You'd be welcome there as long as you follow general social rules. It's when you spam or speak in another language entirely that causes an issue.

That art design is far too young looking. To the point where it'd be legitimately creepy to imagine someone like Fran mating with him or for players to dress him in some of the skimpier outfits available in the game.

I also want to address this and ask why everyone jumps right to the lewd? I'll fully admit I'm 110% on board for the shota/small looking male Viera (shocking judging by my main character, huh?) even if it'd be really goofy and a bit surprising to say the least, but I love cute stuff and I love the idea of a Roger Rabbit situation. I'd certainly give a few laughs after a few cheek pinches. I never even really thought about Roger Rabbit and Jessica Rabbit doing.. That. Not when I was a kid, and not until now, really. I never made my Lalafell with the intention of lewding him up I just wanted a tiny elf boy punching people with little fists and for some reason jumping four times their height.

I've met a lot of people who wear those skimpy outfits and when I read discord chats they're literally laughing at people who get uncomfortable. Heck, just for fun I made my character basically half naked for a raid night just to get a reaction out of my group, and sometimes when I do screenshots I'll take off his shirt and have him flex and call myself "The Musclefell". Things really are a lot more pure than you might think.

But I'm also going to end with I really don't care WHAT we get, as long as the races are completed. That's my main issue with all of this is just getting only one side of a race, and my own general curiosity. If neither Viera nor Hrothgar were ever announced I'd shrug and continue on my normal day of gaming.
I just want to see what SE comes up with to be honest.

[Renik]

shota

This is the reason people "jumps right to the lewd", the full word is Shotakon, and it is something lewd and... lets just say, not ethical, even illegal... And not everyone, but a lot of people asking for short males seems to be using the term for it...

[Theodric]

Thankfully, the likes of Sony and the UN have been pushing back against such things in recent times.

[XenociderOmega]

Wonder how long this complaining going to last for

[stormygabe]

[Throws a bunny into the air as a distraction]

I wonder what kind of hairstyles we'll be getting when they finally come. A lot of arts show them with long hair and it'll match the aesthetic of the females. Because if the females can manage to be jungle Amazons with those hairdos, why can't the guys? And I'm so totally digging that aesthetic.
Push comes to shove I guess I'll have to buy the Ala Mhigan hairstyle, because gosh that'll fit. Hm.

[Catches bunny and feeds it a lettuce leaf to ease its stress]

Long, voluminous, flowing locks would be awesome. The kind of hair that when you see it you think of Revlon wind and royalty. And maybe some short cuts for the cute and spunky types!

[xbahax92]

A small body type does not make everything immediatly shota. We can agree on that anything child-like should not be considered being playable, but small bodys are just simply small bodys. Aslong the race appears mature enough, even young adults with small bodys can look pretty decent. (e.g. male Miqote). I would just stop using "shota", even the JP dislike it (they seem fine with smaller mViera though)

[Lauront]

This would have all been much easier if they just focused on creating two distinctive subraces, like the Hyur ones. Even so, though, I'd like beefier options for my male midlander - a bit like the WoL/derplander in the SB trailer as a MNK.

[BillyKaplan]

This would have all been much easier if they just focused on creating two distinctive subraces, like the Hyur ones. Even so, though, I'd like beefier options for my male midlander - a bit like the WoL/derplander in the SB trailer as a MNK.

I won't lie - there's a Miqo'te boy alt I'd have made into a Feol in a heartbeat if we got them :<

[CoolDad]

[Catches bunny and feeds it a lettuce leaf to ease its stress]

Long, voluminous, flowing locks would be awesome. The kind of hair that when you see it you think of Revlon wind and royalty. And maybe some short cuts for the cute and spunky types!

Oh yes the long gorgeous locks! Fran's hair was so stunning to me in the ps2 era and its still lovely. Wavy, full hair in that general sort of style for the males too would be the dream.