So, why isn't this a thing yet?

[Samcaesar]

I really wouldn't be too surprised if we get a similar very cute race in the future; at least for the female

You mean like the Lalafell? Or the girl Au Ra? Or perhaps the girl Miqo'te! Or maybe you're going for the girl Midlander for a slightly more mature young look?

Honestly I wouldn't be surprised either, though I'd also be incredibly disappointed.

[Yumi_umi]

The 100 year loli war.

[Limecat]

I wonder if they did the ears like that intentionally or not, to match how ears in kittens take up a lot more space on the head proportionally than in adult cats.

[IzzyData]

Instead of playable children I'd be interested in seeing a wider range of height scaling. The height slider is like a difference of 4 inches top to bottom. Should be at least a foot.

"The term is a reference to Vladimir Nabokov's book Lolita, in which a middle-aged man becomes sexually obsessed with a twelve-year-old girl.

Loli is a sexual term. You can argue whether OP meant it in a sexual way or not, but the term Loli refers to erotica.

Not inherently it doesn't. The term lolicon does for sure though as it means lolita complex. Pretty sure at this point loli is just an objective statement about physical appearance with no implied connotations.

[Mhikail]

The only way they can get out of this is by censoring the game heavily with certain gear...
and making a new race of Loli/Shota that are 1000 years old so it'll be fine lore-wise.
That's what they did to Elin lol. Otherwise, I don't see why not...
You have Relm who's 8 and Rydia who was like 10 in FF games.

You mean the Padjal?

Pretty much. The reason we can't play them because
there are very little of them. The Au Ra made up for them with horns and junk.

[Anzil]

The only way they can get out of this is by censoring the game heavily with certain gear...
and making a new race of Loli/Shota that are 1000 years old so it'll be fine lore-wise.

You mean the Padjal?

[Kaedan94]

Because SE doesn't support pedophila/child porn?

[DracotheDragon]

Because SE doesn't support pedophila/child porn?

i am terrorfied to question why your mind aims straight for that,

anyway, i wouldn't mind this race, they are cute, but, they are children, and the world of hydaelyn is too dangerous for kids to run around getting into fight with monsters. maybe when there older hydaelyn will bless them into combat as for now, they need love attention and balls of yarn XD

[Samcaesar]

i am terrorfied to question why your mind aims straight for that,

anyway, i wouldn't mind this race, they are cute, but, they are children, and the world of hydaelyn is too dangerous for kids to run around getting into fight with monsters. maybe when there older hydaelyn will bless them into combat as for now, they need love attention and balls of yarn XD

Because they're plenty of gear in the game that's pretty sexual in design, say the fishnet stockings or the loincloths. It's like how people compare child beauty pageants to liking that sort of awful stuff. Plus it doesn't help that the OP referred to them as "Lolis" which has a huge connection with some creepy stuff. SE gets incredibly close to this with the Lalafell, to be honest.

[Kaedan94]

Because they're plenty of gear in the game that's pretty sexual in design, say the fishnet stockings or the loincloths. It's like how people compare child beauty pageants to liking that sort of awful stuff. Plus it doesn't help that the OP referred to them as "Lolis" which has a huge connection with some creepy stuff. SE gets incredibly close to this with the Lalafell, to be honest.

@DracotheDragon This^^

Just dub them Lalaqo'te and make them twenty-one years old, problem solved. Also, come on people you shouldn't be immediately jumping to the conclusion that making a child option in character creation is going to result in child pornography, certainly if it happened the creators would be smart enough to make some new dialogue for the more adult parts of the game.

That's like saying, "Let's just say that the girl in this picture is 21." while trading sexualized pictures of an under-aged girl. I.E. child pornography.

TERA is guilty of this with the Elin. They sexualize a proportionately child-like race and then just say, "don't worry, they're hundreds of years old... we're not supporting pedophilia." At least with Lalafell, 1) they are not proportionately "human"... you can't confuse a human (or near human) child with a Lalafell. And 2) they are not sexualized.