Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[BillyKaplan]

To all you lore people:
Next time you have two (or more) WHMs in a raid, stop everything and initiate vote kicks until only one remains. Otherwise your raid isn't lore abiding.

[Halivel]

He said their plan was to introduce rothgar as male only

No it wasn't. Their plan was to introduce Hrothgars in general, but there was a big demand for Vieras since 2.0. But since they had resources and time only for one race, they were have to decide between female Viera and female Hrothgar, because they wanted to implement male Hrothgars no matter what.

[minminpurupuru]

lol ok "bud"

[Astrophysx]

I think the writers at Square Enix are very capable to continue the lore regarding male Vieras. They write amazing stories for RPG's, so there's definitely room for creativity with the current lore behind male Viera.

For example, the game writers can portray male Vieras as a marginalized group, and that several elements of the "Green Code" was actually designed to discriminate against them. Thus, being the very reasons male Vieras are reclusive and kept from holding positions of political power. The lore can go from there, becoming a story about a struggle for equality and universal rights.

The writers probably won't follow this plot, but it's just one example of a multitude of possibilities to make male Vieras and female Hrothgars playable characters according to lore, and it can be very... very good. ^_^

[Shahi]

i want cute male vieras^^

[Adamantini]

(...)Or just start ignoring those that say "But Lore!" since they're certainly not reading the thread anyway.

They are here just to try to start a fight with us. They know about male miqo'tes, etc. But they come here just to say "but the lore..."
Just ignore them, it's the best option. They will never read your answer, unless if you start to make mad (that is the real objective of them).

[Emmanellain]

No it wasn't. Their plan was to introduce Hrothgars in general, but there was a big demand for Vieras since 2.0. But since they had resources and time only for one race, they were have to decide between female Viera and female Hrothgar, because they wanted to implement male Hrothgars no matter what.

That was Yoshi-P's initial statement, but after reading his interview with Mr. Happy I'm more or less confused about the order of development of both races.

Mr. Happy: As a follow up, is the team considering adding the other gender for these two races in future expansions?

Yoshida: Short answer is we haven’t made a decision on that. The reason why we can’t say for sure. We need to optimize our work flow with the existing races and the new ones. After that, perhaps we do the other gender. But we don’t know right now.

We did consider Male Viera instead of adding an extra race, but we tried to take player feedback on adding a more beast like race as well as the strong desire to receive Viera. We did expect strong feedback on the gender lock. It was a tough decision, but we decided to do our best to meet both the player feedback and our development team’s vision. It will be very costly to add a new race or genders. So I won’t say no, but I would not like to set expectations high.

This is a later interview and gives me the impression that they added Hrothgar as a limited race in the place of the male Viera, and the whole "Hrothgar came first, fem Viera was added in later due to demand" was a PR tactic to spin the story to divert backlash from the lock. (I kinda believe this because the Hroth got finished right before Tokyo fanfest, and their videos and the whole reveal seemed a little more rushed compared to the Viera one.)
But at this point Yoshi P has been caught saying "the Hroth came first" -> then "the Viera came first", it's starting to become a "which came first? the egg or the hen" kind of story.

[RicaRuin]

Although I support the cause, the amount of art posted without crediting the artist is a little worrisome.

I know most people are interested in feminine/petite male Viera, but what about body types like Yarne from Fire Emblem Awakening? Bunny Boy without looking too weird. (Excuse me if already suggested, but this thread is simply too long.)

[Emmanellain]

Although I support the cause, the amount of art posted without crediting the artist is a little worrisome.

I know most people are interested in feminine/petite male Viera, but what about body types like Yarne from Fire Emblem Awakening? Bunny Boy without looking too weird. (Excuse me if already suggested, but this thread is simply too long.)

Body wise he looks really good actually, but imo the face and hairline scares me off a bit, I suppose it's because I'm kinda in favor of a bishounen face for the Viera males so they'll fit with the females. (my own bias lmao)
Amusing enough, Yarne has a sort of Au Ra male look to him, don't he? I think its the face and the spiky hair.

I like his body type though, I'd believe this guy jumps around stealthily in the jungle and isn't in the gym drinking protein shakes 24/7.

[Theodric]

I know most people are interested in feminine/petite male Viera

It's not the most popular request, it just happens to be the loudest. Most players are either not all that shook up about the lack of Viera men or they want something that is conventionally attractive. The artwork you posted is an excellent example of what most would be content with and have been pushing for.