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    Quote Originally Posted by Haru304 View Post
    You're completely correct, but the person you're quoting is more making a point that the pixies aren't genderless or non-binary merely to serve a real world agenda.
    My point which I guess isn't as obvious as intended, is that what's in the game is what's in the game and worrying about what other people extrapolate from it or connecting it to real-world mythology doesn't mean anything because it's just a game. They already changed Titania from being the Queen of the Fairies to the king. Shakespearean fairies, where Queen Titania, Mustardseed, and Peaseblossom came from, had genders and relationships so FFXIV fairies are already different and off-piste from what most people are used to and from the "source material". Some people think that counts as "representation" for non-binary folks and I'm not going to tell them no since it's what they want to think and it doesn't affect me.


    Quote Originally Posted by Hikelos View Post
    Also, to say that FFXIV Pixies take no inspiration from the pagan mythological creature of the same name because it's not a 1:1 recreation, is just as absurd.
    You could make that same argument about Goblins, Bombs, Ixal, Amalj'aa, Sylphs, Kobolds, etc. on the basis that they all use the same model and thus are "androgynous non-binary icons".
    I never said that they take no inspiration. I said that there are things in the game that are adapted from things in our world, but it shouldn't be completed expected to conform to the material it came from.
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    Last edited by MikkoAkure; 05-15-2021 at 04:31 AM.