Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[Halivel]

No, I don't think he said Miqo'te.

He did. His words were that if they were adding male Viera, they would be tall as Elezens with similar proportions (which is logical, looking at females), and their faces would be similar to male Miqo'te. I remember that interview, happened short after 5.0 release, though I'll need to dig a bit for a link, cuz it was almost a year ago.

I don't like that idea, Viera already feels like a half-assed/lazy race. The last thing we need is the same name for male/female, getting dangerously close to catering to LGBT. Not that I'm against LGBT, but that's a decision people make individually, not something pushed on a race to appease/fit said crowd.

How is this catering to LGBT. Seriously, do you see it everywhere? *raises eyerbow* They're forest tribes, they can have naming traditions that are different to city people. That was just an idea based on that little info we have, anyway. Considering how Rava names sound, there's no much room for difference between males/females (by sound, at least). There is also one thing to keep in mind about naming conventions we have now:

The Rava and Veena clans share many traditions, naming practices among them. Thus, a Viera’s forename is not indicative of the clan to which she belongs─rather, it is the lifestyle she leads that determines whether she bears a “forest” or “city” forename. Traditional Viera forenames given at birth are also referred to as “forest names,” as they are used by those Viera still residing in their homeland─which is the Golmore Jungle, in the case of the Rava, or the forest skirting the Skatay Range for the Veena. Forest names resemble real-world Icelandic names and are pronounced similarly─in the names “Theja,” and “Nojra,” for instance, the “j” sounds more like an English “i.”

In practice, however, one will rarely encounter a Viera using her forest name, as those who choose to leave their homes and strike out into the wider world will generally choose new “city names” for themselves to mark their parting from the traditional Viera way of life. These chosen names are often inspired by the names of other races they encounter, or simply things that they like, such as “Cherry” or “Morning Glory,” and so vary widely between individuals. Incidentally, “Fran” is one such name.

That said, while we don't know how their forest names would sound (probably similar to females, though we need to know how exactly their forest names are inspired to begin with), we can have the rough grasp as to what kind of names males could take after leaving the homeland, looking at various names presented in Eorzea and forming something new that is both Viera sounding and also city-themed. That said... for a Viera that left the Forest and changed the name there's probably no no-lore sounding name, and freedom is wide for it. Not for forest name, though.