Quote Originally Posted by Astronis View Post
TBH, I'm more concerned about Thancred's eye color changing for no given reason after Heavensward, but that doesn't have anything to do with the graphics update. I'd really, really like to know why his white (presumably blind?) eye changed back when Y'shtola's didn't! I did go back and look at HW Thancred and he looks pretty rough, but before and after he doesn't look so different to me that it gives me pause. A little younger, maybe, but that could be chalked up to the shave, bath, and losing the tan.
IIRC the in-game reason is that he wasn’t stuck in the Lifestream as long as Y’shtola was, so he didn’t have the same problems as she did. He got to keep his sight, but lost the ability to manipulate aether. (Not sure if the fact that she was a caster and he wasn’t could have played a role in that as well…)

That said, his face is totally different, coming from someone who had a fangirl crush on him for the longest time! The worst (as shown in the helpful gif posted this morning ) is the eyes and mouth being completely different shapes, but even the nose/bridge of the nose is off. I notice a more prominent nose bridge on Lalas too.

Faces are a collection of features… tweak any one of them too much and things look off. Tweak all of them without regard for the actual shapes of the original, and they’re just completely different people. I’ve started saying that my current Hyur could be a cousin to the original, but they’re not even close enough to look like sisters!