Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

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Viera aren't the only pandering race either. We have Au Ra whose extremely weak lore just shrugs at the fact that SE made a race of edgy, brooding, muscular men and tiny, scrawny, cutesy women half their size in order to satisfy the lowest common denominator.

What would that 'lowest common denominator' be, exactly?

It seems to me that they were designed around classical beauty standards - with the men being tall, muscular and handsome and the women being short, elegant and slender.

Granted, the height difference did not necessarily need to be quite so drastic but based on what I see in-game it doesn't appear as if either side of the coin is starving for interest.

On the other hand, the race and gender combinations based around niche aesthetics are decidedly, uh, niche. Roegadyn women being a prominent example, to say nothing of the lanky proportions that Elezen are bound to.