Quote Originally Posted by MilkieTea View Post
On a separate note:
I also don’t get the whole “they’re underage” argument... what does that have to do with anything? Teenagers get into relationships ALL the time? Would you be making the same argument if Gaia was a dude? (Im genuinely curious to hear that!) If you *would*, why?
One could argue that underage characters are not yet physically or emotionally mature enough to commit to a serious relationship. That aside, a significant number of the players gushing over Ryne and Gaia appear to do so because they find the concept them together to be 'hot' despite...both characters being underage.

Given how freely a lot of FFXIV share information about themselves on the likes of Twitter and this very forum, a lot of those same individuals are also not in Ryne and Gaia's age group. In fact, they're quite a bit older than either of them!

So, yeah - I think it's creepy and I think that as a gay guy a lot of the potential character relationships and 'ships' pushed by the FFXIV community have questionable optics.

Haurchefant? He's an outright pervert in the Japanese localisation and some of the others as well, I believe.

Ryne and Gaia? As mentioned, they're underage.

Alisae? Again, underage.

If we were to get some 'representation' then I'd much to prefer to see it in the form of adult characters.