Viera and Hrothgar Megathread

[HollowedDoll]

Generally a lot of the less important ones, though the really distinct one I can think of right now is one that I'm not sure is available to players – the sort of lecturing finger-waggle emote. But I don't have a Viera myself so I can't make a list of which ones are the same; I just know I recognise a fair few of them in cutscenes as being Midlander-specific.

Likewise I don't have a male Roegadyn or Hrothgar but I think they have some distinct shared motions that the other races don't have.

I'm pretty sure most races use midlander animations in cutscenes. From what I can tell emote wise, aside from the ones shared by everyone else all of them are unique to fem viera

[Iscah]

I'm pretty sure most races use midlander animations in cutscenes. From what I can tell emote wise, aside from the ones shared by everyone else all of them are unique to fem viera

I've never seen any other race use the emote I'm talking about, including my female Roegadyn alt character. I'm quite sure it's Midlander-and-Viera specific.

[HollowedDoll]

I've never seen any other race use the emote I'm talking about, including my female alt character. I'm quite sure it's Midlander-and-Viera specific.

one emote reused in a cutscene isn't that much of a big deal when literally everyone uses the minfila "oh dear" think emote lmao

[Iscah]

one emote reused in a cutscene isn't that much of a big deal when literally everyone uses the minfila "oh dear" think emote lmao

That one and others, though. And I don't think everyone uses Minfilia's pose either – again, if that's the one I'm thinking of, that's something I can peg as a Midlander-specific emote: their version of the originally-inaccessible emote we recently got as hmm/consider. I don't recall seeing other races use it, though (you being an Elezen) maybe the female Elezen version is t far off it. I can only remember seeing Ysayle doing what I think was the equivalent thing a while back.

It's possible it's not even any of the usable emotes from the menu but just the little inbetween things that the cutscene programmers make use of but nobody thought to test or replace.

I'd have to set up an alt to really compare them (and know where in hundreds of cutscenes to look for the relevant emotes to explain) but there is definitely just an ongoing recognition of specific emotes that my Midlander does when I see other Midlanders or Viera in cutscenes, and it doesn't happen with other races.