Child-like characters?

[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.