Quote Originally Posted by Senn View Post
It's because Yoshida described them as such in an interview.

"If we did create a male design for the Viera, he would be quite elegant, handsome, and slim. He would look more like the Elezen race, but with bunny ears."
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That makes sense. Still I think it's a weird choice of words for a race in which the males are basically "doomed" to life of hardship, intensive training that often might lead to death and protection of an entire colony of females from invaders. The elezen part I can totally see, because Au Ra have some elezen-esque features as well. Even elves for the most part are only seen as elegance because of the snobish attitude and because most of em are associated with royalty and ancient sacred magics.