Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[Lauront]

Not really. I havent actually taken an extremely close look at the AuRa models. From a quick glance (like anything) they look fine. Did you have something you had issues with in particular with the model?

I'm referring to the whole "birthing hips" trope that plagues them, particularly in some kinds of armour. It's less evident when you strip them down and it's down to their leg posture. I'll see if I have some screenies tomorrow.

[MrKimper]

I'm referring to the whole "birthing hips" trope that plagues them, particularly in some kinds of armour. It's less evident when you strip them down and it's down to their leg posture. I'll see if I have some screenies tomorrow.

The pants for the WAR AF1 pretty much shows the problem. Could crush watermelons beneath them.

Are you talking about grimoire of the rift?

Nah Rift came out after XII and is set in the same universe so male viera exist, what baki is talking about is Advance the "prequel" to rift where Male viera aren't shown or referenced at all (Similar to female Bangaa), however that world is confirmed to not be Ivalice but a fantasy world created by Mewt. Tactics the first game in the ivalice line came out in 1997, Advance came out in 2003, XII in 2006, A2 in 2007 and Revenant wings in 2007 as well, everything except Advance takes place in Ivalice at varying time points.

Tactics was retconned to share a history and timeline with XII, so technically the only game that we can say for slight certain that male viera don't exist are Advance, but again Advance is in this weird place where Mewt's ivalice isn't the true Ivalice and a lot of the things in advance either don't come up in real Ivalice or were simply retconned/changed.

For example several espers show up as "Totema" in advance but this is their only appearance as such as Totema are never used again as a mechanic/story element in any of the further ivalice games, Totema are pretty much replaced with the concepts of espers and have their whole backstory redone to sort of mesh with the Lucavi concept from tactics.

So yeah TL;DR, the only game that for sure has no male viera even referenced is Advance, everything else takes place in a world where they for sure exist. Discounting Vagrant stories of course.