Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[Gula]

sadly SE is still scared of sexy men

There's a point where I have to question what reality I'm in to find someone this blinded by their personal opinions.

[Gwenorai]

Chuckle, SE is very much all about sexy attractive protags.
I guess people just have some different meaning to 'sexy' where they have to have their butt out and have high heels.
While to me, this is 'sexy'. Respect Jecht and Caius. Who actually have a very nice body type.

[zeylos]

By sexy, I mean that SE is scared of males showing skin. Name 1 man that shows the same skin that female viera do on their racial armor
Also, I personally don't like revealing armor, and I don't typically wear it, but if females get the most scandaloous outfit in the game, the males deserve one too

There's a point where I have to question what reality I'm in to find someone this blinded by their personal opinions.

you are in 2019, where ppl is able to say what they think and if others don't like it they can simply ignore them

[Senn]

at least not on the bottom half

This is exactly what I'm saying. For men, the chest being revealed isn't an issue, but I don't think the outfit would look right if their butt is hanging out like the women's outfit. I can't really think of any scenario where a man's outfit has their butt showing aside from sumo wrestling cloth which I just learned is called a mawashi.

[zeylos]

well, in all honesty the last thing that worries me is the racial armor.
IMO they should get somethng that's revealing, both for the chest and the legs as the females, since I absolutely despise it when men for some reason have their butt covered 100% of the time, I personally have no interest on looking at a super revealing character, but it's just how I would like the game's gender equality to go.
Also, let's not forget that the real world simply dosen't define fantasy worlds. Do you think that 15.000 bunny girls with the exact same identical outfit that reveals half of their intimate parts would be all runnign arround on a pink forest, fighting giant mocuses with an axe or a bow while a bunch of naked lions dance arround with charkrams is plausible in the real world?


IMO if the females get something so ridicolous, the males should do as well, and I see absolutely no reason not to do so, even if I might not enjoy playing super revealing characters there's ppl who do, and not only females, hence why so many catbois running arround in extremely small briefs

[Gwenorai]

By sexy, I mean that SE is scared of males showing skin. Name 1 man that shows the same skin that female viera do on their racial armor

But they do show male characters showing skin - they simply do it where it would be acceptable for them to wear little. For example in Dalmasca/Ivalice - it's extremely hot - they live in a desert, so the male protags tend to wear loose fitting clothes which expose the skin. Like Vaan for example who has his abdomen exposed. In FF14 a lot of male Highlanders have their upper chest exposed due to the weather of Ala Mhigo - this is the same in Little Ala Mhigo as well. This behaviour of loose-fitting clothing is mirrored in ul'dah to some extent. However, in the cities they're more likely to be covered for cultural standards as the clothing they wear in Ul'dah signifies their wealth.

So, in a humid environment, the Viera are more likely to wear clothes that are minimal. This is very likely for the males as well. We've seen that the Viera's armour is actually rather Aztec/Mayan in style - so be prepared for the males to wear something loose fitting. The males gear more than likely made of leathers, bone and sinew rather than metal and cotton that take more time to prepare and weave. The males will not have access to armouries, etc since they're nomadic and don't have 'homes'. While the females have access to these things.

This has nothing to do with them being scared to do so. You're just not going to have a random half naked protag/race for no reason.

[zeylos]

But they do show male characters showing skin - they simply do it where it would be acceptable for them to wear little. For example in Dalmasca/Ivalice - it's extremely hot - they live in a desert, so the male protags tend to wear loose fitting clothes which expose the skin. Like Vaan for example who has his abdomen exposed. In FF14 a lot of male Highlanders have their upper chest exposed due to the weather of Ala Mhigo - this is the same in Little Ala Mhigo as well. This behaviour of loose-fitting clothing is mirrored in ul'dah to some extent. However, in the cities they're more likely to be covered for cultural standards as the clothing they wear in Ul'dah signifies their wealth.

So, in a humid environment, the Viera are more likely to wear clothes that are minimal. This is very likely for the males as well. We've seen that the Viera's armour is actually rather Aztec/Mayan in style - so be prepared for the males to wear something loose fitting. Made of leathers, bone and sinew.

This has nothing to do with them being scared to do so. You're just not going to have a random half naked protag/race for no reason.

Honestly, I'd rather them give actual armor to the females as well. IMO they just went the laziest route ever and copy pasted fran's armor on to them, when they should have gotten their own armor. We got a bunch of naked characters (female) so the minimum they should do is give us males too. Also, I hope that at least they don't give the males bones or stuff like that, and they give them black metal, just the exact same style the females have

[Gwenorai]

Honestly, I'd rather them give actual armor to the females as well. IMO they just went the laziest route ever and copy pasted fran's armor on to them, when they should have gotten their own armor. We got a bunch of naked characters (female) so the minimum they should do is give us males too. Also, I hope that at least they don't give the males bones or stuff like that, and they give them black metal, just the exact same style the females have

How would they be able to mould and make black metal that needs to be constantly repaired? They more than likely do not have forges, unless they're carrying around miniature blacksmith and goldsmith equipment... Seems more likely they'd have bones rather than metal.

Not going to lie, I do hope they have very different racial gear due to the differences in their lifestyles. The first race where the racial gear is far from the other.

[Lauront]

But they do show male characters showing skin - they simply do it where it would be acceptable for them to wear little. For example in Dalmasca/Ivalice - it's extremely hot - they live in a desert, so the male protags tend to wear loose fitting clothes which expose the skin. Like Vaan for example who has his abdomen exposed. In FF14 a lot of male Highlanders have their upper chest exposed due to the weather of Ala Mhigo - this is the same in Little Ala Mhigo as well. This behaviour of loose-fitting clothing is mirrored in ul'dah to some extent. However, in the cities they're more likely to be covered for cultural standards as the clothing they wear in Ul'dah signifies their wealth.

So, in a humid environment, the Viera are more likely to wear clothes that are minimal. This is very likely for the males as well. We've seen that the Viera's armour is actually rather Aztec/Mayan in style - so be prepared for the males to wear something loose fitting. The males gear more than likely made of leathers, bone and sinew rather than metal and cotton that take more time to prepare and weave. The males will not have access to armouries, etc since they're nomadic and don't have 'homes'. While the females have access to these things.

This has nothing to do with them being scared to do so. You're just not going to have a random half naked protag/race for no reason.

Let's also not forget those skimpy outfits some of the males in Shisui of the Violet tides wear, as well as the Buduga tribal outfit.

[jake200135]

I find myself agreeing that revealing on male characters isn't going to be the same as revealing on female characters. The whole point of wearing something revealing is to accentuate certain parts of the body. For obvious reasons, thats going to look very different on males than it would females. I want the mViera to have revealing racial gear as well, but I want it to be done in a way that it accentuates their male bodies. So no, I don't really want their butts hanging out, cause lets be real, knowing this game, they wont have butts anyway. Instead it should focus on showing their muscles.

Hell, even though the fViera racial gear shows off their butts, fViera still have a terrible case of pancake butt, just like every other race in the game. And still people gawk at fViera butts for some reason. :/

PS: This also makes me wonder what they're going to do with the 2B looking character in the Nier raid. Are they going to flatten her butt? Or will she be the only character in the entire game with a substantial butt?

PSS: By the twelve, how many times can I fit the word "butt" into a single post? lol