If you could play as any race...

[AdventZero]

Actually, yeah I would love to play a half elezen/hyur. Like what's her name. Hyur midlander would be what I play over any other race if their animations didn't suck. A hyur with elf ears, and sharper features would make them slightly more unique, but human enough to look nice. As long as the animations were good, it would be perfect.

I've actually been thinking about just saying screw it and switching to hyur midlander permanently at some point. Other than the animations all the other races have something that bothers me, like Viera being limited, tails (I hate the clipping), and the weird ear armor thing stuff has going on.

I tried playing as a Midlander once as well, as I'm also not to fond of having cat ears and a tail. Alas the height was a bit to much for me. While the difference between a Miqo'te's shortest height and a Midlander's is only a few inches I really could feel it. I felt way to tall, awkward, and slightly distorted the one day I played as one. Which is why in my original post I made of point of being the same size as my minimum height Miqo'te, as it's the only height I think I can feel comfortable as. Though, if I had no choice but to be a few inches taller than I am now, I'd learn to live with it, I guess.

As far as animations go, I have thought of an interesting idea that might save SE a lot of work with this. It makes little sense for Half-Elezen's to have their own way of bowing and waving when they're just a mix of two current races, they'd just copy whatever they grew up around. So instead of two "Clans" they would have two "Upbringings" (or whatever SE wants to call it). "Elezen upbringing", and "Hyur Upbringing", Character Customization would be the same for both, but your emotes and animations would be borrowed from the main race of the upbringing you picked. I myself like Elezen emotes, so that's the one I would pick.

Some people wouldn't like it cause of the whole re-using assets = lazy thing, but seeing as we're not likely to get this in the first place I'd like to present as many cost cutting options to SE I can in hopes they might really look into it at some point in the future.

[Iscah]

As far as animations go, I have thought of an interesting idea that might save SE a lot of work with this. It makes little sense for Half-Elezen's to have their own way of bowing and waving when they're just a mix of two current races, they'd just copy whatever they grew up around. So instead of two "Clans" they would have two "Upbringings" (or whatever SE wants to call it). "Elezen upbringing", and "Hyur Upbringing", Character Customization would be the same for both, but your emotes and animations would be borrowed from the main race of the upbringing you picked. I myself like Elezen emotes, so that's the one I would pick.

Some people wouldn't like it cause of the whole re-using assets = lazy thing, but seeing as we're not likely to get this in the first place I'd like to present as many cost cutting options to SE I can in hopes they might really look into it at some point in the future.

At a programming level, Hilda is just a Midlander with custom ears. She doesn't get anything special out of it model-wise.

I doubt they'd do anything different if they could ever implement a half-Elezen race.

[Novae]

Pixies, like Titania. I’d fantasia anytime for it.
And just for laugh, Namazu. I could squeak squeak all day long.

[Halivel]

Would remain male Miqo'te.

[Gaethan_Tessula]

I'm alright with elezen, hyur, and ronso. If I were to choose another I'd go for Padjal (albeit with Kan-E-Senna's older bodytype, to avoid the "child character" problem and all it's associated creeps) or Lupin.

[CoolDad]

Burmecians!

[noxen]

Burmecians!
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You beat me to this. I'd absolutely kill to play as Burmecians. Freya is such an under-appreciated character in the franchise.

If not Burmecians, then the Black Mages from IX. Like Type A/B/C.

[Nix]

Namazu! Yes, yes.

[Kaethra]

Then you wouldn’t be able to use
Magic.

Magitek Infusion.

Magicite instead of Soulstones.

Both concepts already in the lore.

[Kirsi]

Burmecians!

This deserves to be on page 1. 100% agree. Would be interesting to see how they'd look in FF14.