Quote Originally Posted by lunartears View Post
Since the original game graphics I fell in love with are gone for good, all I can do is direct my thoughts towards desperately wishing that the original character features would return - because I feel that even if I don't like how the world looks anymore, at least I would still have my character to enjoy playing with.
I think about this every day, I want to be able to enjoy playing this game again so badly.
I have been lucky enough to find a [REDACTED] to help fix my male miqo'te's face and make him look more like himself again. But while I have fun playing as him, he's technically not "my" character, he's a Fire Emblem character I put in the game when I started because I had no ideas for an OC yet, as I didn't know the world or story of FFXIV. He's my main I do all the endgame content with.

But my other character Eleonora, my sweet face 3 au ra girl, my story WoL I was taking the time to replay the game and experience it through her eyes, who I came to adore so much, who I crafted a story for to fit into the world I'd come to know, who I have commissioned artwork of and written about and connected with and who I came to love just looking at and taking cute pictures of her... She's gone. And since that a "less popular" face, I don't know if I will ever get her back. I've looked and looked up and down on the places I know of to look but no [REDACTED] has been made to restore that face. And the statement from the devs and Yoshi-P has not given me any hope that whatever "fixes" are coming will actually fix her face at all. I never needed nor wanted [REDACTED] character's faces before. I saw no need. I loved them just the way they were.

The way I survived the content drought in Endwalker, the reason why I never unsubbed that whole time even though I was bored with the story and the content, is because I had her. I was replaying the story, taking my time this time around and not trying to race to the end to catch up with my friends. I loved just logging in to look at her, to play dress up with her, to take pictures of her. Even in the the most barren of content droughts, I had her, and that was enough.

But now I don't have that anymore. She's just...gone. I miss her.