Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[Rokke]

Your signature always fascinates me Rokke.
Well but let's have an honest discussion.

1. You're comparing job to race and gender
2. Your job doesn't have a physique requirement

Race physique and looks is determined by the environment that race has been living in for over thousands of years. Lalafel fit in perfectly in the sands of Ul'dah and the plains of Vylbrand.

Now, could have Lalafels been added as jungle warriors? Sure, but this is where we hit a wall; female viera exists. This not a brand new race that doesn't have a counterpart to inform us of what the males would look like, so much so that we already have art for them.

You can't run away from this


The problem is you can't reach that jungle warrior description going skinnier than male Elezen.

The first day of World Visits on Crystal was wild. Everyone and their mother smashed their way onto Balmung to see what the fuss was all about lmao

Topic:
It's less the job and more the fact that Lalafell exist in this world period. Because they, and a bunch of petite female races, exist we have to accept that we can’t apply real world logic to Final Fantasy logic.

irl, I am the same height as a female Au Ra and the Au Ra of the steppe are supposed to be dangerous. By irl logic if I had an axe and you were unarmed I would be dangerous… but overall it’d probably still be easy to take me down axe or no axe. Im in good shape and could swing an axe decently (I can chop wood no problem and played softball in highschool/college) but ultimately I’m incredibly petite. The entire steppe arc is kinda silly to me, someone who is 5’1”, because my boyfriend (6’1”, significantly shorter than a min height male Au Ra) can easily pick me up and throw me if he wanted to. Magnai, a 7’2” muscular male who has spent the bulk of his life swinging a comically huge axe should be able to lop my catgirl’s head off with ease. But irl logic =/= final fantasy logic and in this game we are to accept that tiny females can be “dangerous”.

Logically, a race of amazon-esque people (as in, people of the Amazon jungle not of an Amazonian Wonder Woman-esque trope) would be short, lean, and weathered by years of hunting/gathering under the harsh elements of a jungle. An aged Viera should look less like a supermodel and more like Yoda. We are supposed to accept that a 100+ year old Viera female who has lived off the land her entire life is still stupidly pretty. Could a male Viera be muscular? Yes. Could a male Viera look like an instagram model? Also yes. Could a male Viera look like Pipin? Unfortunately, still yes lol.

Don't get me wrong: I LOVE that concept art. You can check my post history. I want male Viera to look like that (or like FrischeNq's art :sweat:). But in the same art book that released that artwork and at the same event that revealed that concept art, we were also shown



By this game's logic, if we are to accept Pipin as a threat we cannot rule out unsuspecting strangers & unwanted Garleans going into the jungle and get shanked by bunny ear’d underwear models. Is it kinda silly? Yeah. But for better or worse Final Fantasy™ has always been kinda silly like that.