So, about the Lalafell Breast slider...

[Zachia]

I came from WoW recently and my first opinion on seeing this race was of "why is there a toddler race in this game? Who wants to be a toddler?" So I completly black listed the thought from my mind being heavily judgemental while thinking it was the gnome race in wow, not to be taken seriously. As I play the game starting in Ul'dah I went from disdain to meh. Seeing them as warriors or class that wasn't a physical based class thinking as a joke and a defiance of logic. But I did begin to think of them in a positive light being a mage and seeing them being in the mage guild. When I got to see the queen at first i was surprised to see this race leading such a city and people. But she was so adorable i wanted to give her a tight hug and pinch her cheeks. After that point i realized that i was way to harsh of a critic and just enjoyed myself and interactions i had with this race as i took them more seriously. When I see players playing this race i feel happy because they cool now. I even joined the Twin flames because of the queen and the general dude. As a person who loves cats i almost regret not going for the little race since i wanted to be a black mage. If I made another character it would be them or the big bulky race dude.

[ReynTime]

I'm fully convinced it's there as a joke.

[MiaShino]

Good stuffs.

Congratulations good sir or madam! You are already on the road to recovery from closemindeditus, may you enjoy the thing for what it is.

[Ultaniku]

I’ll be honest when I created my Lala I glossed over that option because I didn’t think it would do absolutely anything so I figured why even bother.

[LittleImp]

I see more Au Ra males being outed than Lalafell. But, overall, we have no idea if your statements are purely factual or heavily opinionated. As someone whose played for two years as a Lalafell, I barely heard any of that nonsense going down.

All races have a chance to be played by unsavory individuals.

This is actually true, it's less about lalafell players and more about the greater community around them. A lot of people in the lala discords are not necessarily lala players. It's often roegadyns and male Au'ra that prey on lalas in my experience lmao. That said, there are a lot of actual lala players as well that do pretty questionable stuff. One of the largest FCs on Balmung is still operated by a lalafell player who used to openly request people post shotacon in his discord. Having lurked some of those communities for a long time, I can tell you that quite a few of the major lalafell community organizers used to participate in debates about the legitimacy of lolicon and actual underage content, before the discord crackdown came.

As for the Discord thing? The creators of Discord view Lalafells as iffy in a visual sense and ban any NSFW pictures of them because of it.

This is because most unfamiliar with FFXIV assume lalafells are children, which is a pretty strong indication that they readily present as such. Out of the people I've shown this game to IRL, only one person didn't ask me why I was playing as a kid lol.

It's mostly because they have a 'chibi aesthetic'. And to a lot of people 'chibi' equals 'childike'.

And as for the developer tid-bit, if memory serves, Yoshi P argued against Lalafells being viewed in that way. Honestly, if you think the developers are pushing some kinda of agenda, I'd recommend against supporting the game.

The devs writing that a race is "childlike" and have "difficult to determine ages", all the while designing outfits inspired by kindergarten uniforms as their racial wear and then going on to say "yeah they're totally adults" is actually pretty lmao and hard to take seriously. It's more plausible deniability than anything, and I think he said that in response to the creepy community begging for child miqo to be added. Races that skirt the line and cater to a certain.. 'demographic' are not uncommon in eastern mmos, and lalafell are just another example.

I don't care about the developers agenda really. I just think it's hilarious the extent that certain people involved in the lalafell community go to in order to conceal their true nature. Meanwhile in reality we have swathes of the lalafell community getting caught up in private image-board scandals and other nastiness. Some of the people that participated in that board are still active in the largest lala discord lmao.

[Soge01]

I'm fully convinced it's there as a joke.

Half true and I was hoping the discussion on this thread would move towards "what could this useless slider be replaced with for female Lalafell".

So far I like the "chubby slider" someone suggested!

[Iscah]

...all the while designing outfits inspired by kindergarten uniforms as their racial wear...

Are they? It just looks like generic fantasy gear to me.

[Jijifli]

Probably makes people double-take because lalafells are described by the games developers as "childlike" and have racial outfits based on kindergartners.

If I put the lalafell outfit on a 5 year old I 100% promise they would hate it.

Some of those straps legit just look uncomfortable. I'm curious what part of it looks kindergarten to you?

[Conundrum]

If I put the lalafell outfit on a 5 year old I 100% promise they would hate it.

Some of those straps legit just look uncomfortable. I'm curious what part of it looks kindergarten to you?

Point of order, most outfits in FFXIV look dreadfully uncomfortable.

[AngelCheese77]

This Westerner thinks lalafell are adorable all while kicking the most ass in combat and politics.