Au'ra

[Rokke]

Lore might sway role-players but I’m not sure that folks that don’t would really be bothered by one appearing in the story more than the other. I think its more the skin tone to scale color. If male raen had gold scales or white scales the gap would be smaller I think, but as is the current tan emphasizes how odd some headgear looks with horns and makes the lines between scale textures and skin textures more apparent.

[Iscah]

imo Xaela scale color + black sclera are easier to work with aesthetic-wise imo. Raen boys feel so much more limiting since the color of their scales look like they've spilled oatmeal on themselves.

You can definitely work with the Raen scale colour. It's not far off the pale gold sometimes used for highlights on things.

(Shameless self-promotion: this is my character and I've never felt like the scale colour clashes with things. I think I have more trouble with his skin colour than scales.)

[AduroT]

I think Viera will make this flip, the Bun Bun boys are way too cute ...

Edit: (at Post count for the day


While true, and an interesting fact, which misses a few details from the Benchmark:

Male Viera
186.5 (6'1.44") Max
172.2 (5'7.68") Min
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Female Viera
191.4 (6'3.36") Max
178.8 (5'10.44") Min

Variance:
Max 4.9cm (1.92")
Min 6.6cm (2.76")

But this has nothing to do with Cute Factor, Bun Bun Bois are cute, like no matter how hard you try they are adorable, while Female Viera can be everything from super cute to tough Tomboy's with attitude.

Like really easy to be a Girl with a goatee...


but try to go rugged...
(my best shot at a masculine Male Viera, I did try too. Sleepy Stoner Eyes, natural hair and eye color, the least feathered hair style. Floppy ears for added stoner looks. Face Tatts in black, no lip color, goatee if this was Live I would name him Shaggy Twinky'eater) Referencing the Junk food found at 7-11, and not the slang.


Meanwhile on Live. My Viera Alt.

Probably dumb question, where were you able to see the male bun character creation options?

[Tsiron]

Probably dumb question, where were you able to see the male bun character creation options?

The Endwalker benchmark

[Conundrum]

I like the dimorphism and wish the upcoming male viera one was more pronounced.

[BaconBits]

Extremely late but inevitable daily reminder that I will never forgive SE for making fem Au Ra so small compared to their male counterparts.

[Plushy]

Extremely late but inevitable daily reminder that I will never forgive SE for making fem Au Ra so small compared to their male counterparts.

yet people are ok if a male was shorter than a female.
Double standards at its finest.

[BaconBits]

yet people are ok if a male was shorter than a female.
Double standards at its finest.

Gonna stop shitposting for a second to say there's a pretty big difference between a 2-3 inch height gap and a 2-3 feet height gap. Especially when most fem Viera are cowards that refuse to be max height anyways, and more than likely won't take advantage of the "giant snu-snu bunny woman, tiny soft bunny boi" aesthetics that was pushed for so hard in the first place.

[Plushy]

Gonna stop shitposting for a second to say there's a pretty big difference between a 2-3 inch height gap and a 2-3 feet height gap. Especially when most fem Viera are cowards that refuse to be max height anyways, and more than likely won't take advantage of the "giant snu-snu bunny woman, tiny soft bunny boi" aesthetics that was pushed for so hard in the first place.

yeah but you can best believe like there will be a ton of short male viera due to it going to be very popular with gay men.

[Theodric]

yeah but you can best believe like there will be a ton of short male viera due to it going to be very popular with gay men.

I doubt it. As a gay guy myself I've found that many gay men want to play tall, conventionally attractive handsome men. A lot of the people who fawn over overly feminine men actually turn out to be 'fujoshi' - women who obsess over the idea of gay men but project their feminity into the relationship and as such end up pushing stuff that a lot of actual gay men dislike. Such as negative stereotypes, abusive relationships and so on.

Many of those pushing for feminine aesthetics to be glorified are neither male or gay, generally speaking. Exceptions do exist, of course, but contrary to what social media and the regular media implies the majority of gay men do not actually conform to the stereotypes pushed by either platform.

Let's not forget, a not insignificant number of people were asking for male viera to have options to be taller, beefier and more masculine. Evidence of such can be found throughout the various male viera threads. I think it's telling that the thread died shortly after the official reveal was put forward - they'll not be as niche as, say, female roegadyn but I doubt they'll become the most popular male racial pick. At least not where the European servers are concerned based on current trends.