Quote Originally Posted by aveyond-dreams View Post
I think there are some pretty common ones like girls with long hair that go through dramatic, compelling emotional journeys/love stories along with sterner guys that carry heavy unseen burdens with facial hair and strong physiques that they could start with.
I can't quite believe you're still going on with this.

Here's the honest to gods truth: your takes on this game are absolutely terrible. They're entirely self-centered, archaic, sexist, boring and predictible. They're George R. R. Martin rip-off male power fantasies obsessed with buxom women with flowing locks and five-feet-apart-because-they're-not-gay stoic manly man men with rippling muscles that became a tired trope several decades ago. Times have changed. Media has evolved, people have evolved, society's conceptions of men and women and how they should look and behave evolved, so I suggest either move on with the times, or cling to the plethora of material that already exists that caters to people like you and leave a game actually half-attempting to leave some of the hackneyed, beaten-to-death tropes rampant in JRPGs behind alone if you can't come to terms with it. You're not even offering constructive criticism at this point, you're just trying to justify why misogynistic archetypes and medieval fantasy tropes being stuck into a 2022 game would be good for anyone except you, and poorly at that. If you're so disturbed by women whose sole purpose for existence in a narrative isn't to cater to the male gaze or men who can't grill a steak with the force of their sheer manly ruggedness, FF has many titles that do have those characters, so I recommend starting your search there and allow SE to put a little much-needed progression into one of their games, at least.