Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[Allegor]

Let's be honest, they may not be Elezen tall, but Elezen, Highlander, Roegadyn and Hrothgar are relatively rare anyways, so 7/10 times, the only ones taller than a male Viera would be a male Au Ra.

I felt a similar way when it turned out Hroths were considerably shorter than Roes, but I still tower over everybody else.

[dustdjinn]

I tried so hard... but it's just impossible to create an even halfway "masculine" looking face. They totally went overboard with the uber feminine look. Like literally, just take away the beard options and whatever you create would perfectly work as a head for a female Viera.

I'm a bit sad that they didn't even bother trying to offer some variety in that regard (like for male Miqo where you have feminine but also masculine looking facial options and hairstyles).

Anyway...at least now I can put an end to that topic and rest assured, that I will never want to play a male Viera.

I don't know what you are talking about. My boy here is giving off Shota Aizawa vibes and I live for it.

[Kobalos]

Played around with char creator and tried to make a a older looking bun, he just looks so doe with life.

[Misplaced_Marbles]

Eh, i wished they'd have less angular faces, but i guess that was too much to ask considering most faces.

Also no ponytail of any kind to avoid clipping with the omnipresent collars. I guess i'll need to get some random all class clothing to avoid dealing with that, if i even make one. Tsk tsk.

[Alym]

They may not be everyone's ideal male Viera, but from the height to the feminine and pretty boy features, they are exactly what I wanted. Thanks, SE! <3

Sorry to those who didn't get the Viera they imagined.

[KaijinRhada]

Gave the preliminary poke around character creation to make a male Viera version of my character.

Their height isn't surprising (5-6cm shorter on both ends is barely noticeable in game), and is about what I expected it to be. Some of the options are neat, the hair they have is very nice and I'm envious of all of the wavy styles. I don't know how I feel about their facial hair (it's nice, but suffers from the same problems as the ones on other races). I know there's been some talk about their posture, but having been a male Miqo'te (who also have a strange default posture) in ARR I didn't think anything of it. The best thing I love about them is their starting gear, probably my favourite out of all races currently.

I don't think I will make the switch as I love male Au Ra and I don't want to fall into the Fantasia money-sink (though I am hesitant on wholly ruling it out), but an alt buck is very likely. Sorry male Miqo'te, I have to move you down the list for male Viera as my second favourite race/gender combo.

I can understand that they're going to hit the spot for some and not for others. I would have preferred something more feral-looking, but I'm quite liking them and having fun in the Benchmark character creation. Congrats to those that are loving them!

[HollowedDoll]

I don't think the posture when naked is that much of an issue visually (more so health wise ), but it literally breaks gear as it is right now.
Anything that's placed on the waist is floating, and skirts/hanging coat are also very unnatural, there's also a lot of stretching that's visible on some of the PLD armors.

[AxelBranford]

Well, adored them and made my terrible trio. Was expecting them a bit more rugged, but very surprised and glad for how they turned out. Thanks SE! <3

[Iscah]

I don't think the posture when naked is that much of an issue visually (more so health wise ), but it literally breaks gear as it is right now.
Anything that's placed on the waist is floating, and skirts/hanging coat are also very unnatural, there's also a lot of stretching that's visible on some of the PLD armors.

Report it on the Bug Reports forum and maybe they can get it ironed out a bit before release.

[Halivel]

Report it on the Bug Reports forum and maybe they can get it ironed out a bit before release.

This. Doesn't seem like it was intented this way, because even from the armor list that is available in benchmark, most of them look okay in stomach area, with some being weird (like Noctis attire).