Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[Lauront]

Ideally for me, I'd like for them to be as tall as or taller than the females.

[MOZZYSTAR]

Ideally for me, I'd like for them to be as tall as or taller than the females.

Male rabbits are smaller than female rabbits, and I would personally like to see the female viera as the taller ones of the two, change up our usual human dimorphism that's trademark of all our races. Female lizards are also usually larger than male lizards, so Au Ra female should've actually been larger than the Au Ra male, but alas: SE (and other people) just love our "kawaii waifus" with their big-man counterparts. (Just for the record, the rest of my comment isn't aimed at you, Lau. It's just my opinion on male viera, and viera in general.)

Forget "sexuality" (because that keeps coming up in this topic, even though it's kind of irrelevant). Gender stereotypes is more prevalent. It's exactly why (or supposedly) we don't have male viera atm: because "male rabbits are 'weird.'" -Stares at the wild rabbits hopping about in my yard- Yes. Very weird.

As aforementioned, small female / large male is just a human standard of beauty for both sexes. I'm already pretty unhappy about the gender stereotypes present with the female viera NPCs: pale, timid or weak (like that viera healer in a certain quest), et cetera. Thank goodness for Lyna because she's certainly not weak. As a whole, I've been finding the white-washing to uphold western and Asian beauty standards for women to be pretty offensive, actually.

Anyway, I'd love to see viera males exactly like the one in Lau's sig (will repost at the end of message): strong, broad, masculine, stoic/austere (depending on the face), just shorter than their female counterparts. Height doesn't emasculate a man. Or at least, it shouldn't. It's a male beauty steretype, but at the same time so is our female viera... and I think it suits WoL given all the adventures. (Sorry, lalas)