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[Roda]

:O . . That sounds sad lol. Is there any reason for that? Female ears are firmer.. cause.. lore? Would it maybe because they're using the bounce on the chest for ears (on males) while the bounce on females is already in use (like if it was a slot / system limitation)? If there is no particular reason #GiveFemalesTheirBounce lol.

It's nothing really technical. Our ears do move in some emotes, it's just never as much as the males and it looks way way worse.
(here's some examples, where the males will have a bunch of flicks wiggles and twitches, the females will have a simple rotate up a few degrees or down a few degrees, where their anatomy doesn't really let their ears fold as naturally as the males so it just kind of looks like their ears are wilting)
It's the curse of having a three year difference in character release dates and character artist workloads.
1.0 had character artists animating 8 player models whereas 2.0 had them focusing on just 3, so there was probably more room to focus on the male miqo'te, female roe, and female highlanders than there was for the original 1.0 characters. On top of that they had more time and practice with the tools when creating the male miqo'te than they did with the females so their familiarity would allow them to push the anatomy of the race farther to be able to express more. It's just kind of how these things go, it's why the Au Ra have such fluid and expressive emotes compared to a lot of the more stiff or simple 1.0 races.
We can only hope that SE steps out of the habit of "NEVER TOUCH PAST ONLY MAKE NEW GOODER" and goes back to show the previous character models a little bit m ore polish. :T