A Race Suggestion: Kitsune

[boopadoop]

kitsune would look too much like miqo'te probably tbh

maybe meeses or bears i love bears
i want a tiny fluffy nub tail tho

[Adire]

kitsune would look too much like miqo'te probably tbh

maybe meeses or bears i love bears
i want a tiny fluffy nub tail tho

I would argue that all races in the game look too much like human already. With that said, it's pretty clear we're going to be using humanlike races unless we have a sudden change in direction, especially given how humanlike Au Ra ended up.

If we're not going to have anything radically different from human, we should embrace what we like as ideas that fall in line with the standard so far :3. I'd love a bestial race, but I'm okay with other stuff too.

I think it would be awesome to have a giant fluffy tail option like a fox would have, maybe even multiple tails. That would set it apart from Miqote but still help keep to the armor formula. Maybe some mischievous, sneaky, and more adult looking faces than Miqote too.

[Cenebi]

kitsune would look too much like miqo'te probably tbh

maybe meeses or bears i love bears
i want a tiny fluffy nub tail tho

I can see a Bear or Moose/Deer style race being made more likely than a Fox race.

Could be a bulkier, more muscular animal race.

A bird race or fish race would also be interesting, if difficult to implement. Would basically be like Ixal or Sahagin, but more human than bird/fish.

Of course, I also don't want them to just make a ton of animal races just because they're easy. There's a ton of things you can do for a new race. Could make a Golem race, a Treant race, really anything you can justify in the story.

I think it would be awesome to have a giant fluffy tail option like a fox would have, maybe even multiple tails. That would set it apart from Miqote but still help keep to the armor formula. Maybe some mischievous, sneaky, and more adult looking faces than Miqote too.

I tend to agree that we're unlikely to get anything that deviates too far from humans, but I honestly think that fluffier tails, different faces, and different shaped ears (which, imo are the real telltale sign of a fox-person vs a cat-person) should just be added to Miqo'te rather than making them an entirely new race.

[Adire]

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I don't really see a problem with adding a foxlike race really. There already clans for each race with differences from each other as minor as just lore reasons, being identical on nearly everything else.

This race could be made quite noticeably different from Miqote and have lore behind it. Making Miqotes have more foxish options just for more aesthetic options but not having the lore to back up the fact that they are fox and not cat seems like a bad idea personally.

If I want to be a foxlike race, I don't want to have to play a Miqote with fox features but be stuck with Miqote lore and knowing I'm still just catbased, you know? Foxlike features really don't belong on Miqotes in my opinion. If they're added, it only makes sense to give them to a new race. If not a new race, at least a new Miqote clan, maybe an offshoot distant fox cousin to Miqotes or something.

I wouldn't mind a proper reptilian race seeing as how the Au Ra have a "Demonic" and not "Draconic" motif. (Despite my personal feelings that that statement is fairly false >.> )

A fox person would feel too close to Miqo'te though, especially given everyone "The girls look just like Miqo'te/hyur!" comments in the area of the Au Ra

I don't know about others, but a lot of that for me was because of how similar the facial options are in some cases. Particularly Miqotes to me. I don't know, I feel like a lot of the Au Ra facial options have a similar...feel?...to the Miqote options.

[Felis]

I can see a Bear or Moose/Deer style race being made more likely than a Fox race.

Could be a bulkier, more muscular animal race.

I'm sure a bear race would end up looking like a furry Roegadyn ^^

[Dalvy]

Less cute animal-morph people; we already have not!dragon girls and catgirls for the cutsie factor

We need to give more attention to FF's more beastial people, like bangaa, nuu mou, seeq, garif, etc

[kyuven]

We need to give more attention to FF's more beastial people, like bangaa, nuu mou, seeq, garif, etc

Let's ask a question here:
How many of those were main characters?
Viera are likely purely because of Fran. Hell, Burmecian are actually SOMEWHAT likely (though they'd need a change to their faces first as snouts both don't "sell" and are a pain to design helms around. The feet and hands are the same way.) thanks to Freya. But how many of the others are likely? Where was the bangaa that traveled around with Ashe and Vaan? There wasn't one. They were "flavor" races, sidekicks in the tactical games. Not main characters.
We are main characters.

In addition, as I've said before, when proposing a new race, it's imperative that you ask the question of how to deal with the armor and weapons. You would essentially need to start development all over again just to deal with each new body feature. Remember that SE specifically said that they've been taking the au ra horns into account since 2.1 for just helms. Can you imagine having to go back and do so for EVERY SINGLE piece of equipment because you want to add a race that's bestial?
Practicality comes first.

[VanilleFang]

No... We don't need more furries.

EDIT: Correction: I would be okay with Veira.

[Tyrial]

Hm....maybe a foxy race that can switch between full on fox form when not in combat and human form? Then we'd have some of both of what we want kinda :s

So you basically want a Venomancer from Perfect World...

[Oce]

So you basically want a Venomancer from Perfect World...

And IMO it doesn't fit the pre-established lore and aesthetic of final fantasy games...