Child-like characters?

[Iscah]

On child Lalafells looking like the adults, I consider that to be just another limitation of the character models. Maybe they reach adult height early, but they still need to get there - and we've barely seen any clear examples of children anyway. The "son and daughter" from the family in the Doman Adventurers' quest might be teenagers.

We never see 'half-grown' versions of any other races. You have dainty child-height Au Ra and Elezen, then two-metre-tall adults and nothing inbetween, when realistically there should be. We don't see children that aren't that one child-model age, and we still haven't seen any Roegadyn children. I can only assume they're there and you just don't see them portrayed in the game because they don't have the budget for it.

[DarkMasamune]

Saying this when we already have Lalas its like...

Meh, maybe.

You got a point, but I still make the difference in my mind between a lalafell, which all look like the same, and a smol Au Ra boi like the ones we see in Stormblood.

[Lersayil]

I get why SE wouldn't want to do it, but I'm sorta baffled by players arguing against it.

Creepy people will be creepy, no matter what they look like.

Then again, my brain is probably rotten from decades of watching anime of questionable quality.

[AngeliouxRein]

I get why SE wouldn't want to do it, but I'm sorta baffled by players arguing against it.

Creepy people will be creepy, no matter what they look like.

Then again, my brain is probably rotten from decades of watching anime of questionable quality.

This comment is exactly how I feel. I get the sneaking suspicion that if I say I wanted a loli/shota race, somehow I would be called a perv. I can't help that I always loved to play small/ cutesy races. They're just so damn cute and that's all. For me, it's way more entertaining seeing a character like that roll up as the almighty powerful one than a typical hulking character. No one expects the small/frail like character to be the hero but everyone expects a hulk/superman person to be the hero. It mixes it up.

I just don't get the overly western crowd of gamers I guess.

[tdb]

I'm not sure why, but my brain parses this as a young adult rather than the child. I know the head to body ratio does not match that of a human adult, but I guess the features are just too refined for me to see a child here.

[Iscah]

I'm not sure why, but my brain parses this as a young adult rather than the child. I know the head to body ratio does not match that of a human adult, but I guess the features are just too refined for me to see a child here.

I agree. It reads as "chibi elf", not "young child".

Lalafells just look like they've come from a game with a different art style to everything else.

[Yencat]

This comment is exactly how I feel. I get the sneaking suspicion that if I say I wanted a loli/shota race, somehow I would be called a perv. I can't help that I always loved to play small/ cutesy races. They're just so damn cute and that's all. For me, it's way more entertaining seeing a character like that roll up as the almighty powerful one than a typical hulking character. No one expects the small/frail like character to be the hero but everyone expects a hulk/superman person to be the hero. It mixes it up.

I just don't get the overly western crowd of gamers I guess.

You're a female Au Ra though? Not sure how much more small and frail you could get.

[AngeliouxRein]

You're a female Au Ra though? Not sure how much more small and frail you could get.

You mean how everyone kept crying for Viera to be added and a good chunk of the player base kept telling you to play an elezen? How they are literally the same height but the only difference is the ears and for some, Viera are slightly prettier?

Those of us who want a short race only have one option. I play both lala and Au Ra but that doesn't change the fact that lala is too short and Au Ra are still too tall for what I am looking for. Sure, Au Ra has the frail look but too tall. Lala has the cuteness I want but too small. There is an awful lot of things that look like they just smashed it down to fit a lala and that messes up a lot of the glam options. Then on Au Ra, those same glams might look better but it's not giving me that overly cute appeal. Hence, why I would love for there to be a race that is right in between the two.

In anime MMOs they're simply known as a loli/shota and every one of those games nails it. But somehow, SE went all around it.

[Omymy]

That's a 40 yo man!

Wrong. Its a 3000 years old vampire in a childs body.

[Halivel]

You're a female Au Ra though? Not sure how much more small and frail you could get.

Possible at least in height. We still have the gap of about 50 cm between minimum female Au Ra (148 cm) and maximum Lalafells (90+ or near to this) that isn't touched by any race.

In anime MMOs they're simply known as a loli/shota and every one of those games nails it. But somehow, SE went all around it.

That's just an assumption, but looking how some people react at Lalafells, female Auri and female Miqo'te, western part of community, most likely, is pretty much the reason why we don't have anything inbetween Lalafells and Auri. To avoid undesireable... consequences.