Quote Originally Posted by DamianFatale View Post
Indeed, there are no other options. D: The most I could do is play an au ra female, but I don't feel like that goes with my gender identity. I really appreciate you having empathy for what it is like to be infantalized. I have no issue with Lalafells existing, I just don't think they allow any progress on advancing past stereotypes of short people, and so it would be nice if something else did help with that.
Yeah. I remember someone else being upset with the infantilization going on with lalafell in this community. I have heard a common thread of shorter fantasy races not being taken seriously or being bullied. I know some newer games are making strides towards taking shorter people seriously- like balder gate 3 allows for multiple short fantasy race options. FFXIV is 10 years old so I could chalk up a lot of the stereotypes coming from a time that had less empathy for anyone outside of certain boxes... but I also will say it hasn't really changed much in newer updates in that regard either. I think it doesn't help that lalafell are very chibi with their faces (little people have many different face types. Some look older, some look younger than their age- but you likely already know that).