Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[MikkoAkure]

It begs the question of "why can't a Viera female who left get preggos in La Big City and birth a son?". Like, I know there's convoluted lore junk about how people see mix race procreation as "taboo" (not mixed race relationships/ sex but child making ...) which makes it rare, but we do know that in the rare cases where it does happen the child normally comes out as w/e race the mother is (mix-race babies like the half elezen girl are rarer).

TLDR: Long ramble saying that if they had actually made it a mystical, full on fantasy, magical race that's just all women who don't have babies like normal people then yeah, I'd accept that and support them not adding males. But they used conventional %^%# with genders and such in a world with rules that ALLOW for a possible situation where male Viera could be a thing seen by others sooo IDGAF if they decide to show em. (Though I think the whole race is a waste personally)

Half-races coming out to be whatever the mother is, is made-up fanon that is spread by RP forums to support being able to RP a character who are things like half miqo'te/half au ra but look 100% miqo'te since we don't have the option for that in-game. There is nothing in-game that states they they come out as the same race as mom. If a viera and a hyur were to have a baby, the baby would be obviously not full viera. Considering that viera have been present in Rabanastre for long enough that they are considered normal citizens, and viera themselves live for 300+ years and have ample opportunity to have babies with others, the fact that male viera are still completely unknown to regular citizens and visitors of Rabanastre means that viera aren't sleeping around to make more.

The concept of Veena and Rava have existed before XIV but it seems to have been related to hair colour rather than skin colour previously. There's still a lot of old forum posts around speculating whether Fran is a Veena or a Rava, which from XIV Viera's perspective would seem obvious.

Are you sure about that? I can't find any information on veena and rava being an actual thing that exists before they were announced as clans for FFXIV. I remember someone editing the FF wiki to retcon veena and rava into FFXII, but I don't think that's canon.


As far as trying to reconcile male viera to the story, it is as easy as saying: "the Garlean invasion has disturbed the forest and they have made incursions into the viera homeland. Though in the past they would have fought to the death against incursions, their bows and arrows are useless against their foe's hardened steel. More and more viera men now break tradition and follow their sisters out of the darkness of their jungles and into the light of Dalmasca and the rest of the world.". There. No having to include unrealistic genetics made up by RPers to justify anything.