Evolution of your character

[Kaelah]

Thought it would be fun to see how our characters have changed since release. :3 Here are Kae's journey of looks:

XI - Was named Taeyu back in the day, Kaelah's surname Tae is what everyone there used to call me.


1.0 - verrrry different to now. I was a pale Moonkeeper with blue eyes.


2.0 beta - I decided I wanted to be nostalgic and look a bit like my XI character. (Had white hair though, went brown with blonde like my real hair.) Not sure why I changed tribes, probably due to colour options I guess.



2.0 release - Kept the hair/face/tattoo but decided to go darker skinned in a bit to stand out a lil. Caucasian skin seemed to be most common. I also ditched the purple eye as I felt that was very popular too. Green is a typical kitty eye colour so I stuck with that. Changed the hair slightly red to compliment the skin tone. Went with bushy brows like my own too.


3.0 release - Did what I'm sure most of us did and tried Au Ra. I did like her this way, still do. Buuuut, she seemed less emotive in cutscenes to me and I missed my fluffy tail/ears.


Now - Back to same old Kaelah. Hair has changed style often between release and now but always keep the colour.

[Seoulstar]

Now I wish I took more screenshots..sadly I did not. That and my screenshots are never clear.

[BrokenFox]

Between 1.0 and now, the biggest change my character's made is shaving his head.

[Zephrey]

From FFXI -> 1.0 -> 2.0. I still use this exact model in the last shot today.
The most changes my character has made is its job.

[seida]

Basically: I am a fantasia addict.

My original character at the launch of 2.0 was a Miqote on an NA server;



Then I decided to try making a character on a JP server to see if that would fix my lag problems, and it did.
RIP J'olhmyn, welcome Creamy!



Then I decided to go elezen.



Then I decided to go Lala.



Then I went elezen again.... until sometime after Heavensward, when I decided to go Au Ra. Then I went elezen again.

And a couple of weeks ago I went back to my au ra.



...how long until I return to elezen I wonder.... I think overall my elezen is still my favourite...

[ElHeggunte]

Naiyah hasn't changed all that much, even from the 1.0 days. I'm also missing some images from between 1.0 and early 2.0 so I only dug up the three times I made big changes.

1) In 1.0 I tried to make her as close to her FFXI counterpart as possible, only with paler skin and green eyes similar to what I had achieved via DAT-modding.

2) When 2.0 launched, the dark green eyes from 1.0 looked almost black under 2.0's engine so I changed them to dark blue. I also experimented with highlights and probably used goldenrod yellow the longest, but have since changed back to red. I decided I didn't like my skin being so pale (I glowed in brightly lit areas!) so I used my first free fantasia to tan myself up a bit, and since this was before the Aesthetician I also went ahead and altered my lip color so they looked glossy.

3) After my 1st change my appearance pretty much went completely untouched until the Lightning Returns event. I adopted her hairstyle and have never worn another style since. The only other thing I've ever changed is the pale red eyeshadow and white facepaint stripe that matched a glamour I no longer use. I've been too lazy to change them.

[Ashkendor]

Oh goodness. I've been through I don't know how many hair changes and two Fantasias now. Nostalgia time~

I started off as a male Miqo'te back in 2.1 and went through several different hair styles/colors...

(this didn't last long, maybe a week)


(this lasted all of two days)

Finally I ended up with this look that I kept for several months:



But eventually I used a Fantasia to make a female Miqo'te:



I stuck with that till Heavensward, but I knew the second I saw male Au Ra that I had to be one:



I've just always stuck with the same color palette after I did the dark skin/red hair/green eyes look.

[BrokenFox]

From FFXI -> 1.0 -> 2.0. I still use this exact model in the last shot today.
The most changes my character has made is its job.

Always cool to see XI characters crossover

[Dijana]

FFXI (so small, I dont have anything but this one left on this PC)


1.0


2.0


3.0


And current, I changed from Raen to Xaela a few days ago so that her scales would mesh better with her darker skin and the fake horns I keep using on all my outfits.


There were a lot of minor changes during all that- gradually making her skin more tanned, eyes brighter, hair different styles and lighter pink until I made it dirty blonde ish at some point as Au Ra. Changing from hyur after so long (going back to hume in XI) felt so weird, I decided it was the perfect time to make the most changes to take her as far from what she originally was

[Zephrey]

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omg I had the hardest time trying to find a picture too! was tempted to just log on XI and take a picture of her. Didn't realize I had like...none on this computer. haha