Eyebrows For Male Highlanders When?

[Allegor]

Everyone and their mother always brings up "lore reasons" when it comes to not giving male highlanders eyebrows. Ivon Coeurlfist, male highlander, has the bushiest eyebrows I've ever seen on a character. No I don't care that he uses a unique non-player model, he's a male highlander lore wise and that's that. We're done with the "lore reasons" excuse.

Without even taking into consideration that not all Highlanders are Ala Mhigan, specially the playable character who could've been born in Doma for all we know. Anyway, to indulge how silly the "lore" reason is.

"It's their lore to not have eyebrows!"

the lore:

Technically not Highlanders, but we can also count

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[Antonio_Xul]

Without even taking into consideration that not all Highlanders are Ala Mhigan, specially the playable character who could've been born in Doma for all we know. Anyway, to indulge how silly the "lore" reason is.

"It's their lore to not have eyebrows!"

the lore:

Technically not Highlanders, but we can also count

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I would remove Conrad Kemp as he’s clearly a Midlander. The others are more valid.

[Ascended_Demon]

I would remove Conrad Kemp as he’s clearly a Midlander. The others are more valid.

No he is very much a highlander, as is the pugilist guild master (for him it is clearly stated he is a highlander by other characters), but they use elderly models so their physique isn't as muscular and are "technically" classed as midlanders by the game. Ala Mhigo is populated entirely by highlanders when it comes to hyur, there is only one example of a midlander who is Ala Mhigan if we do not count Lyse and Minfillia, who are both 1.0 characters and at that time female highlanders didn't "exist", and that one midlander was from a post Stormblood side quest that involved refugees returning to Ala Mhigo. In all likelihood it was either unintentional or it was because they wanted a younger looking male character who was not burly.

[Allegor]

No he is very much a highlander, as is the pugilist guild master (for him it is clearly stated he is a highlander by other characters), but they use elderly models so their physique isn't as muscular and are "technically" classed as midlanders by the game. Ala Mhigo is populated entirely by highlanders when it comes to hyur, there is only one example of a midlander who is Ala Mhigan if we do not count Lyse and Minfillia, who are both 1.0 characters and at that time female highlanders didn't "exist", and that one midlander was from a post Stormblood side quest that involved refugees returning to Ala Mhigo. In all likelihood it was either unintentional or it was because they wanted a younger looking male character who was not burly.

I admittedly forgot about Hamon, but funny enough he does lack eyebrows

[Ascended_Demon]

I admittedly forgot about Hamon, but funny enough he does lack eyebrows

I...probably should have looked at him before I mentioned him. I just remembered he was stated to be a highlander and he used an elderly model like Kemp. There is however Ragnfrid, the elder in Ala Gannha, he definitely has eyebrows.

[PyurBlue]

Without even taking into consideration that not all Highlanders are Ala Mhigan, specially the playable character who could've been born in Doma for all we know. Anyway, to indulge how silly the "lore" reason is.

The lore definitely does not prevent a highlander from having eyebrows. Anyone saying otherwise needs to take an intentionally unreasonable interpretation of the lore for that to happen. If a culture tends to do a certain thing that only means it's common among the people of that culture, not that it's universally present. It's exactly like reality where people around you might like a certain type of clothing or TV show, but you don't. Finding people that don't conform to every part of their own culture is completely normal, but this seems to be forgotten in video games.