Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[Gwenorai]

I don't think anyone here is averse to them being called fierce. Some of us are just saying that the term "fierce" doesn't necessarily describe their appearance.

Also, like I said, male and female viera are both equally as strong. Yet the female viera look like victoria secret models. They are just as fierce as the males, but they don't look barbaric like some people suggest the males look like. The females have bodies similar to elezen, and faces similar to miqo'te, and that's probably what the males will look like as well. Slim, handsome, and elegant. That specific male viera that shot the arrow was either abnormally strong, or it was just a tongue in cheek cutscene to show that male viera are out there and always watching.

I think barbaric is literally in their style. The clothes the vii are wearing are tribalistic, which could be also described as barbaric. They don't have to be chewing at peoples throats. It's just a synonym for primitive; which fur-like skin clothing, such as loin clothes would fit under. It's why if you google Barbarian, you're going to see muscular men wearing loincloths and furs. He can still move with elegance or have an air of elegance and yet still come across as a cold killer who has spent all of his life simply 'surviving' and 'killing' - we can't ignore the fact their lore strictly has them as men who are constantly doing that.

A man, can still look primitive in regards to what he wears and still look handsome and elegant. But if you think about it, does the imagery of a very well kept male who's wearing top of fashion spring to mind when you read about them. Nah. Stick an Elezen in the Vii tank clothes and go warrior - there. An elegant barbarian. Which, is a really nice look BTW, you get similar imagery if you go DRG.

TBH, Viera looks like that because they trimmed the parts of them that look barbaric. The females are supposed to be armed with claws, on both the feet and the hands. And their wood warden armour looks nothing like the outfit that Fran is wearing. The wood wardens that are female in FF12 look like actual amazonian warriors.