I'd like to be able to play a kid character

[Noll]

I think FFXIV did a great job of representing young characters. Think of the Conjurer story quest for example: they look like real kids, no adult features that are common in anime kids.

That being said, I'd love to be able to play a scholar or a conjurer kid avatar. I understand playing a kid gladiator would be a bit ridicolous, but for mage roles it looks good.

Think Kid Rydia or Polom and Parom.

[KodiHivaer]

Play the tallest lalafell.
Problem solved.

[Zetsumei_Tsunarashi]

Been saying they should do this for a long time, but it will never happen because of all the alcohol and sexual references. There are a lot of underage characters in offline Final Fantasies though. I'd actually challenge someone to name more than 5 FF protagonists that were known to be older than 21.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Been saying they should do this for a long time, but it will never happen because of all the alcohol and sexual references. There are a lot of underage characters in offline Final Fantasies though. I'd actually challenge someone to name more than 5 FF protagonists that were known to be older than 21.

Cid, Tifa, Red XIII, Barret, Vincent (FF7)

Lulu, Wakka, Kimarhi, Auron (FF10)

Balthier, Fran, Basch (FF12)

[whoopeeragon]

Been saying they should do this for a long time, but it will never happen because of all the alcohol and sexual references. There are a lot of underage characters in offline Final Fantasies though. I'd actually challenge someone to name more than 5 FF protagonists that were known to be older than 21.

Technically, we should be going by 20 as that's the age of majority in Japan...although you are still correct.

Firion - 18
Luneth - 14
Cecil - 20
Bartz - 20
Terra - 18
Cloud - 21
Squall - 17
Zidane - 16
Tidus - 17
Vaan - 17
Lightning - 21

Only 4 of the main protaganists across the released mainstream games are off-age in Japan. And then you have Luneth...14, really?

And then you have Lightning who finishes her story aged 521 years old...

[lololink]

Technically, we should be going by 20 as that's the age of majority in Japan...although you are still correct.

Firion - 18
Luneth - 14
Cecil - 20
Bartz - 20
Terra - 18
Cloud - 21
Squall - 17
Zidane - 16
Tidus - 17
Vaan - 17
Lightning - 21

Only 4 of the main protaganists across the released mainstream games are off-age in Japan. And then you have Luneth...14, really?

And then you have Lightning who finishes her story aged 521 years old...

Luneth is very old actually, since they were stuck in the limit between the flying island and the land flooded under the darkness that stopped time.

[Rustyhagun]

Elezen and Hyur have a "youthful face" choice, for your character face type. It makes you look like your in your early-mid teens. Choose that face and the shortest height, And your good to go.

There is even a 'freckles' choice, in the tattoo section of character creation, to add to the affect.

Don't just pick lallafel.

[HakuroDK]

Been saying they should do this for a long time, but it will never happen because of all the alcohol and sexual references. There are a lot of underage characters in offline Final Fantasies though. I'd actually challenge someone to name more than 5 FF protagonists that were known to be older than 21.

Not possible with main protagonists, but if you mean potential party members that join as protagonists, starting with FFII, we have (at the very least, missing a few due to not beating one or two core games) Minwu, Josef, Ricard Highwind, Tellah, Yang, Cid Pollendina, Fusoya, Galuf Halm Baldesion, Edgar Figaro, Sabin Figaro, Cloud Strife, Barrett Wallace, Vincent Valentine, Adelbert Steiner, Freya Crescent, Amarant Coral, Beatrix, Wakka, Lulu, Kimahri, Auron, Lightning, Sazh, and Fang.

As for children (as the original topic's point. Same as above, some may be missing due to lack of knowledge), we have Rydia, Palom, Porom, and Eiko Carol.

[Aegis]

Those 'kids' are padjal iirc and are actually adult.

SE couldn't make kids the main characters without the game's age restrictions changing. Violence towards children is a far more controlled subject.