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[Lauront]

You're willing to take a tweet that's clearly a joke and claim Matsuno seems to prefer a highlander build, but when the producer outright says they would probably be "slim, handsome, and elegant", or that male viera may have used a male elezen model with a miqo'te face if implemented, you don't accept it. You don't accept it, despite seeing concept art of a slim, yet toned, viera.

I see concept art that could easily be construed as the Au Ra model, or an in-between.

And no, I don't take mere words as a guarantor of much at all.

Should I be drawing an image in my mind of what they've already supposedly committed to, when Yoshida was mostly spitballing ideas? Seems silly.

The difference between au ra and viera is that we now know what female viera look like. They appear to be using an elezen base with a face that somewhat resembles miqo'te. Not far off from what Yoshi P was talking about, actually.

Regardless, even though it's still possible to change things in development, what I was pointing out is that Lauront referred to a joke tweet and suggested Matsuno would prefer a highlander physique for male viera. A joke tweet. But when it comes to information and ideas Yoshida straight up gives, the answer I get is "well, things can change in development".

Because they clearly can. Yoshida isn't even the only person to have input on the matter. So not sure why you're so bent out of shape over the matter.