What's the point with that quite lackluster story in Endwalker?

[Theodric]

What on earth about the wastelands of Australia are going to make people go, "Woah! I want to go there!" Like the skyscrapers of Insomnia or the towers of Ishgard invoked?

A good looking surfer with a design similar to Snow Villiers complete with an Australian accent?

I guess we could replace 'surfer' with 'blitzballer' to give it a more Final Fantasy feel.

[aveyond-dreams]

A good looking surfer with a design similar to Snow Villiers complete with an Australian accent?

Careful now, that probably is not inspired enough by "indigenous representation" and could cause yet another FFXIV social media controversy! Admittedly however, I would be more willing to welcome the advances of an athletic man with more masculine tendencies than I would be of someone like G'raha Tia and his kindergarten schoolgirl haircut. Be sure to include the likes of characters similar to Vanille as well please, she and Snow were both my favorites in FFXIII.

[Theodric]

Careful now, that probably is not inspired enough by "indigenous representation" and could cause yet another FFXIV social media controversy! Admittedly however, I would be more willing to welcome the advances of an athletic man with more masculine tendencies than I would be of someone like G'raha Tia and his kindergarten schoolgirl haircut. Be sure to include the likes of characters similar to Vanille as well please, she and Snow were both my favorites in FFXIII.

Yeah, I'd like more conventionally attractive male characters to interact with as well. For as much as some like to pretend as if JRPG's default to mostly androgynous looking men, I disagree since they're usually balanced out by the presence of a bunch of classically handsome and ruggedly handsome guys.

Thancred and Estinien are decent but I'd like someone designed along the lines of Hien as a permanent addition to the main cast and not just hidden away in side quests.

I'm glad that the character models are getting a new coat of paint. If they manage to fix the Highlander models and allow me to finally play a conventionally attractive male character who is muscular and tall then I'll be very happy.

There's always been something 'off' to me about many of the design decisions for the likes of G'raha. His voice doesn't match his features or mannerisms at all.

[Brinne]

It's me. I will happily take up the mantle of being part of the masses of very scary "twitter/tumblr fandom" that threatens to take away aveyond-dream's precious castles and their conviction that they can definitively speak for the Final Fantasy fandom, forever. I mean, I love Zenos, I occasionally go to Twitter, and I would be more than happy to explore an Australia or Africa-themed expansion. Truly I qualify as the stuff of nightmares.

Careful now, that probably is not inspired enough by "indigenous representation" and could cause yet another FFXIV social media controversy!

Goodness, you are upset about that one piece of criticism of your extremely long 7.0 fanfiction, aren't you?