Possible Ideas to Address Hrothgar/Viera Hat Disparity?

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I'm just gonna be real right now, but I was just thinking about this, what could they even come up with for hrothgar? Like I don't wanna be mean or anything, but even if hrothgar had full hair support, 99% of the styles would look ridiculous. I've always argued against how SE handled them, but maybe they were thinking the same thing. Not saying it's okay if they were thinking "why bother", but I can see where they were coming from.

Not as bad as you'd expect honestly. These are only 2 images I found but many hairstyles are of similar style and length so I imagine they'd look fine. Subjective of course, but I think they look pretty good all things considered.

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Not all of them are gonna look good but personally I don't think the Gyr Abanian Plait looks good on any male characters, but if the players like it they can decide for themselves if they think it looks good or not.

The whole hair locked to face, and fur patterns being the equivalent to hair in the creator sucks. The ridiculous thing is yeah, not even a single new fur pattern either. Nothing. Granted, I literally can't tell you the difference between any of the fur patterns, even on the many shirtless hrothgar I've seen. It's not even noticeable when you can see it. Maybe for the player? But considering the lack of good feedback or even a real want for more, I kind of doubt it.

Honestly the more I post in this thread the more it starts to dawn on me there's probably just not going to be a satisfactory solution to this in terms of hairstyles unless they redo how they set up the CC Hrothgar or they make some big changes in character creation that allows for more options. I guess it should have been obvious for a long time but I did expect better.

They shot Hrothgar in the kneecaps by their own design and tied Viera to the train tracks next them, they're not going to give anything to one without the other but fixing one on such a core level might be a bigger undertaking than they're willing to take on.

Would they be willing to actually fix Hrothgar so they don't require a Fantasia? And if not, are both races only going to be getting things in expansions? Are we even getting anything substantial in the next expansion?

When they broke the 2B butt by accident they very quickly released a statement but when it comes to this it's been crickets for a long time now.