It's not about pleasing (well, I would be pleased for Lupin to be playable), but making sense. I'm not 100% sure, as I have never played as an Au Ra, but I have a feeling that not one NPC comments about what you are, despite being the only Au Ra to appear in Eorzea, with demonic looking horns and a reptilian-looking tail. It's jarring and makes the entire point of Yugiri masking her appearance pointless (she should reveal herself when she sees you're an Au Ra).

That needs to change with any future race and the "easiest" way to do this is to have them start in their home zone. The laziest way would have them start in any of the three cities, hand a letter of 'do not attack me plz' to a guard and then you're golden from there.