Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[Awha]

don't we have more than enough classically handsome female characters?
let's make a chubby AND chibi bunbun gal :P. They can always go back and readjust the look of the character design or introduce a new viera design saying they are from another tribe

I agree they should add a female version.

[grinkdaboy]

Just came back from my GM ordered vacation but I just wanted to keep the dream alive. This is the body type we need male buns, it is the only fair option if SE goal is diversity. Short and chunky is the best way.

Come on guys, best of both world those who want a short boi get it and those who want a round or pear shape boi get it. All happy faces!

just put some gold saucer bunny ears on your lalafell

[Alleo]

Thankfully it isn't a 'vocal minority' who favour classically handsome aesthetics. Good looking guys are more popular than the strange looking, sickly characters that a tiny but vocal portion of players are pushing for within this very thread.

Just too bad that "classically handsome" will be widely different with each culture so the slender body type may even be seen that way somewhere (and I guess there is a high chance that this is happening in asia culture).

Heck for me a classically handsome man is someone like Ardbert.

Look just in some of those lists that exist on the internet and you see that we have quite a bit of variety in what counts as handsome. Jonny Depp, George Clooney, Ryan Renolds, Robert Pattison. And more. They are not that slender but I would count them more towards the midlander category.

Then look at famous and well liked japanese actors. Suddenly you will find a lot of slender men there that count as handsome to them.

This term is so open to interpretation and subjective view that its hard to use it.

[Allegor]

I mean, female Viera are already "too buff" for some people, and the males have an even worse lifestyle, so it's most likely they would be at least athletic, not soft bishonen like if they came from a BL manga. Since they'd also likely have ear sliders and selection tab I doubt they'd have any muscle tone slider either, so SE would have to tread lightly /shrug

[Awha]

just put some gold saucer bunny ears on your lalafell

Which I do from time-to-time, but hey still think it is time we had another small and unique body type playable character model in the game. I mean my character sits around in queue all day, my sedentary life style needs a proper reflection for my own self expression.

Joking aside I do wish the bunny ears removed the players ears.

[Theodric]

Heck for me a classically handsome man is someone like Ardbert.

Yes, for me as well. Which is why I've been pushing for that direction throughout the thread. I'd be happy if male viera were anywhere between the height and beefiness of Midlander men to Highlander men.

What some people are pushing for, however, is something skinnier and shorter than miqo'te men - which treads into uncomfortable territory when one considers that the physique that brings is no different to that of a child. Something which Yoshi-P has already ruled out, thankfully.

[Arngrim_Greyashe]

just put some gold saucer bunny ears on your lalafell

That could literally be said of any race in this game. If that's the case, put some on your character and let's close this thread down.

/s

[Burmecia]

Hmm, few people want chubby/petite bun guys. I mean, that is good. Aren't we all just wanting our fav flavour preferably to be realised?

But considering that one problem with female viera was their feet, I am getting hunch that IF missing genders are going to become true at all, the bodies are going to share as much as possible with existing character body bases. Disclaimer: I know verrryyy little about 3d.

Further. Sorry I do not have any more creditable scource for the next snippets.
https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Viera

"Final Fantasy XIV gives exposition to the elusive male viera, who are virtually identical at birth to females; only upon maturing they are able to be identified gender wise."

"The male viera are secretive, vicious, skilled hunters---"

Bun guys. Identical to females until puberty kicks in, and turns them into badass woodland warriors. Knowing what adult females look like... I'd like to know the logistics of dimorphism which would make male vieras into lithe and lalafel resembling O_o

[grinkdaboy]

Which I do from time-to-time, but hey still think it is time we had another small and unique body type playable character model in the game. I mean my character sits around in queue all day, my sedentary life style needs a proper reflection for my own self expression.

Joking aside I do wish the bunny ears removed the players ears.

lalafell is as chubby as you'll get. if they ever decided to go down the route of adding more races (which, i don't think anyone would be opposed to them making more or less reskins with headswaps. give lalafell the hrothgar treatment and reskin them to have white fur and a pom and voila, youve got yourself an ivalician moogle)

[Awha]

lalafell is as chubby as you'll get. if they ever decided to go down the route of adding more races (which, i don't think anyone would be opposed to them making more or less reskins with headswaps. give lalafell the hrothgar treatment and reskin them to have white fur and a pom and voila, youve got yourself an ivalician moogle)

I would be okay with that, though I still wish to promote the desire for big chungus. I mean people called out the devs before for being sexist, at this point I think they are fat shaming. They should add a body fat slider for every race, if they do not wish to add new races.