Female Hrothgar as a playable race. Show your support!

[Midareyukki]

I mean, I play au ra, and it is my most played even after all the fantasias, but I wouldn't really call myself a "scaly". I do like dragon races though, even the WoW one is pretty cool - I really like the humanlike form. In D&D I also like draconic bloodline sorcerer, so it is overall an aesthetic I like, but I still have never played something like an argonian or something (they are ugly).

Churro xD it wasn't toward you.

Let me put it this way.

To be a furry you either need to be engrossed in it (not necessarily in a seggsy way, but rather just engaging in the fandom overall, like art or the stuff aimed toward the fandom like specific games and such), or you need to label yourself as one. It's not going to be one game that will suddenly make you a furry. If you play Hrothgar here but play boring bland humanoid literally everywhere else, you're not a furry. You just happened to like Hrothgar.

That's reflective of several people in FF14, including the forums themselves o: A LOT of people in this thread play or like Hrothgar but don't necessarily care about identifying themselves as a furry or want to engage with furry-related stuff for the fact that there are furries in it.
And constantly assuming that that's what people do, like certain people have done, is really harmful. Not just for people in the furry fandom who keep being used as a slur. But also for people who aren't a part of that, who will feel like they can't enjoy what they enjoy because of slurs.

The scaly comment? That's not even true. Au Ra are not lizardfolk, they just have scales on their skin. They're human, and that's a gigantic portion of their in-game identity, as people from Ishgard have confused them for dragonborn and began persecuting and executing them for looks alone.

To be a scaly, you need to be a reptile of some sort, be it real or fantastical like a dragon. Au Ra are not it. Yet if dwodmots is going to come in here and accuse everyone of being a furry for playing one of two "out there" races in the game (the other being lalafell, the rest are humans with different proportions and appendages), then by her own logic, she is a scaly. And several people who also don't know any better do look at Au Ra and call them scaly all the time.

Does it mean it's right for me to call someone a scaly when I do know better? No. But if you're going to come here and stir crap just to bother people for playing and caring about one race, then you're opening yourself up for equally low blows. If you don't like being called a scaly and being compared to the rest of the furry fandom, leave people be.

Otherwise? lmao no, Au Ra are just as furry as Miqo'te are. And that's barely, if any at all xD

Just... people need to stop using Furry as a slur. Furries have done so much more good than I've seen the FF community do. I've seen them get houses for people, help people with disabilities and with medical bills. I've seen artists go from being in need to having their expenses covered just because furries started commissioning them after knowing their problems. I haven't seen the FF14 community lift a finger to help anyone. What I have seen were people denying the right to a disability. Yay us.