A PoC Scion please? There is so much untapped potential here.

[Nothv13]

His skin color and overall looks enhances how great he is, it's all a matter of perspective, everyone has one.

I just find it odd when people equate the shallowest possible trait of someone as vital to their character.

[Amnmaat]

I just find it odd when people equate the shallowest possible trait of someone as vital to their character.

It's not a shallow trait at all. And if it is that shallow why do you have so much of a problem with it?

[Theodric]

More concerning than a missing POC Scion: Why are the natives in the Blue Mage quest all white?

Why would that be concerning?

[Lauront]

Fantasy setting with fantasy races and we're arguing over skin colour, trying to bring in RL "issues".

[Wilford111]

So the people who start this whole thing about race aren't racist, but the ones who say it doesn't matter are?

This isn't hard to understand. You strike me as a deluded person.

[Wilford111]

You make a good point, but in this situation we already have many characters of color (not white) in the game, like Raubahn for example.

Let's say the developers cave in to the requests and make a black scion. Well, that won't be enough, because why are there still mostly "white" characters? We need more colored (not white) scions because why should there be majority white (Asian that looks white, non specified because it doesn't matter to the Japanese) ones? We need to change it to at least half.

It'll keep going from there, you understand. It's never enough. You may call me projecting, or putting words in people's mouths, but this sort of thing has already happened in other forms of media and entertainment.

[Amnmaat]

You make a good point, but in this situation we already have many characters of color (not white) in the game, like Raubahn for example.

Let's say the developers cave in to the requests and make a black scion. Well, that won't be enough, because why are there still mostly "white" characters? We need more colored (not white) scions because why should there be majority white (Asian that looks white, non specified because it doesn't matter to the Japanese) ones? We need to change it to at least half.

It'll keep going from there, you understand. It's never enough. You may call me projecting, or putting words in people's mouths, but this sort of thing has already happened in other forms of media and entertainment.

If I breathe on you it sounds like you'd explode into pieces. The fact that you have a problem with race in other media says a whole lot about you and your character, might want to look into that.

So what if the whole XIV MSQ cast is all of a sudden dark skin? Why are you about to turn into a vauthry just because "there's too many" dark skin characters all of a sudden? No one here has a problem with the current msq cast being light skin, well not me anyway. But it sounds to me like adding more than just Raubhan would make you become the next mass shooter at a random walmart.

[Theodric]

As a gay guy I've never felt that a setting is 'wrong' just because it happens to lack gay characters. I'd rather not be treated like a token for businesses to score points with.

Many businesses censor such things in certain countries yet these big businesses never seem to speak out against it or prevent it from happening. It's almost as if they just pay lip service and say/do whatever will score them more profit in each region.

I also don't believe a character is inherently more interesting just because they happen to boast a certain skin tone or sexuality. I also think there's a genuine risk that a story can be cheapened by obsessing over representation. I'm more in favour of letting writers create the characters that they want to see rather than those that will fulfil a quota.

[GrumbleBeard]

Egyptian scion when?

[Wilford111]

If I breathe on you it sounds like you'd explode into pieces. The fact that you have a problem with race in other media says a whole lot about you and your character, might want to look into that.

So what if the whole XIV MSQ cast is all of a sudden dark skin? Why are you about to turn into a vauthry just because "there's too many" dark skin characters all of a sudden? No one here has a problem with the current msq cast being light skin, well not me anyway. But it sounds to me like adding more than just Raubhan would make you become the next mass shooter at a random walmart.

Don't forget, I'm commenting about other people making this a big deal. Though this has really brought to light an ugly side of you, calling me all sorts of awful things.