Child-like characters?

[MsQi]

because perverts exist, even in FFXIV

Yeah, see how few times people request more elderly female characters.

[MoofiaBossVal]

You can pretend she's older all you like but she's portrayed as a pre-teen in the story and in form.

Huh? She looks and acts like a teenager. As a poster said above, I'd guess around 16.

I think it might have to do with the graphics or something, because the images I linked don't even look like they are taken in the same decade.

In-game Thancred looks like he is in his early twenties, which would make sense for 1.0 and ARR, but in ShB Thancred is at least ten years older than he was in 1.0 (ARR takes place five years after the end of 1.0, and Thancred spends five years on Norvrandt). Guess they didn't want to make a new ingame face for him, which is odd considering the other ShB characters (Urianger, Y'shotla, Ryne) are consistent in their appearance in both the game and in the cinematic.

[Ftail]

In-game Thancred looks like he is in his early twenties, which would make sense for 1.0 and ARR, but in ShB Thancred is at least ten years older than he was in 1.0 (ARR takes place five years after the end of 1.0, and Thancred spends five years on Norvrandt). Guess they didn't want to make a new ingame face for him, which is odd considering the other ShB characters (Urianger, Y'shotla, Ryne) are consistent in their appearance in both the game and in the cinematic.

You forget in Shadowbringers, Thancred is sucked out of his body. The Scions are in a coma and their bodies are not brought over. So his body is not as old as his "spirit" or whatever you want to call it. It's basically a 5 year pass for them.

[swiss_Momo]

[Pheryx]

All i want would be the ability to play an Elezen the size of Alphie / Alise. I don't like being a giraffe

[hynaku]

I don't see a problem when lala's and female au ra's is or can be child sized. My female au ra has lowest height setting and it's same height as children npc's. Most male npc's my characters head is only to there waist.

[BubblyBoar]

The problem is that people are asking explicit for (younger) child versions of races. Not a child sized race, not shorter height options, but actually asking to be teens and children. No amount of "But my character that is explicitly an adult as as tall as the tall races children" will fix that.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Something something really 700 years old.

Yeah, it ain't happening.

[Iscah]

The problem with Ryne isn't that a 12 year old can fight like she does, loads of younger people have been contributing to fighting in all of the FF stories. The problem is with her model, it simply doesn't look like a preteen should. It looks like they took Minfilias model shrunk it down slightly and reduced the breast size and slightly changed the face. The same problem appears with Thancred, but in the opposite direction. Thancred doesn't look as old as he should be, I'm younger then him in real life by a good margin but he looks like he needs to be asked for an ID every time he buys alcohol.

Ryne is definitely using a modified "adult female Midlander" body model (she has the same emotes) but it's nothing new. Kan-E-Senna does as well, and I think also Alma from the Ivalice raids.

Even the standard "child body" model seems to be a scaled-down adult body rather than something that's realistically child-proportioned, presumably to save them some gear modelling work.



Thancred is 32 but apparently there's some lore somewhere about Sharlayans using enchantments to look younger than they really are - I'm not sure about the source of that, but it's consistent with him suddenly looking noticeably older at the point where he loses the ability to use magic. Because he's not in his real body currently on the First, apparently he reverted to his preferred appearance (however exactly that worked).

In-game Thancred looks like he is in his early twenties, which would make sense for 1.0 and ARR, but in ShB Thancred is at least ten years older than he was in 1.0 (ARR takes place five years after the end of 1.0, and Thancred spends five years on Norvrandt). Guess they didn't want to make a new ingame face for him, which is odd considering the other ShB characters (Urianger, Y'shotla, Ryne) are consistent in their appearance in both the game and in the cinematic.

I don't think Thancred is really less consistent than the others between how he looks in the cinematic and the game. All of the faces are a bit 'off' and Minfilia looks older than she does in the game.

[lolicon09]

Is there a reason we don't have them as an option to pick?
Ohh, there IS a reason indeed. It's called "Balmung"

But, i would certainly like another race with heights between Au Ra and Lalafells; a second cute race with actual knees, that doesn't look weird when wearing most helmets