So...Yugiri

[Titor]

If she's not reptilian then I would hazard a guess that she may be of a rat race like Freya from IX.

Yeah, I really think that it looks like a rat race to me. I thought that instantly when I looked at the image.

[File2ish]

I'm curious about when they make it a playable race, as in what will they do to the story? Will it come in 3.0? Will we not have access to the cutscenes from 2.XX after the jump to 3.0 (like going from 1.XX to 2.0)? If the new race is in 2.XX will they make the race playable only after a certain point in the game or would they make significant changes to the story to accommodate a new race? (i.e. the story so far says nothing about her race and as far as I know nobody in Eorzea knows what race Yugiri is, so having a bunch of lizard people running around Eorzea wouldn't make sense in the current story we have).

Just some thoughts.

[SamuraiBlaze]

I just hope they don't troll us like Tali from mass effect. Mask comes off and she's a hyur with horns.

[KupoNuts]

I just hope they don't troll us like Tali from mass effect. Mask comes off and she's a hyur with horns.

Not to mention they used stock photo to show her "real" face...

[WendyDarling]

I just hope they don't troll us like Tali from mass effect. Mask comes off and she's a hyur with horns.

haha yeah, just watch her end up being a miq'ote with long ears... and wearing tail armor... lol

[saber_alter]

haha yeah, just watch her end up being a miq'ote with long ears... and wearing tail armor... lol

probably not, the tail looks too "natural" and chitinous to be tail armor, and the ears are too low on the head to be a sun/moon kitty.

[Velox]

Her tail does look very Coeurl-like now that I've seen them. Plus she's using Miqo'te animations...now I wonder, maybe she's more like a new race of Miqo'te hybrid, ones who are less generic cat-like and more akin to Coeurls.

[Silkerin]

and so Yoshi p said... and all other Yoshi p´s....

[Erana]

I'm playing through the 2.2 story now and noticed something in the cutscenes that seems interesting.

Yugiri has the same animations as Miqo'te, though this is likely because the dev's didn't want to create a unique set of emotes for one character plus she uses the same body model. Also, whenever she turns her head sharply her "horn/ear" hood thingies flop about. Which makes me think that they are indeed ears and not rigid like horns. I'm certainly curious what she must look like.

[Koroem]

I'm playing through the 2.2 story now and noticed something in the cutscenes that seems interesting.

Yugiri has the same animations as Miqo'te, though this is likely because the dev's didn't want to create a unique set of emotes for one character plus she uses the same body model. Also, whenever she turns her head sharply her "horn/ear" hood thingies flop about. Which makes me think that they are indeed ears and not rigid like horns. I'm certainly curious what she must look like.

I can confirm this. During the cut scene near the Sahagin aetherite, the weather in the zone was windy. Everyone's hair and cloth clothing were fluttering in the wind, including her long ears/horns. Either that is some terrible oversight in horn physics, or it is indeed long ears.