Character creation

[Serilda]

Yeah, I'm not anti-improvement, just anti-homogenisation.

More faces? Yeah!
Separate horns/markings? Sure, makes sense.
More muscle sliders? Eh, fine. I'd also like more scar options for everyone!
Half-Elezen that look like Midlanders with pointy ears and their own traits? I wouldn't play one but why not, it would be cheap to do.
Elezen with Hyur proportions and big heads? No.
Insulting people who play the actual Elezen by repeatedly insinuating that they are ugly? No. This is bad.

Say, hypothetically, that they released the 'cute Elezen' archetype everyone supposedly wants, with a more conventional aesthetic. Overnight there'd be loads of Legolas clones everywhere, and those of us who play the 'classic Elezen' as the creators intended will suddenly go from 'people playing an unusual race' to 'people playing an unusual race and voluntarily choosing to look ugly' in the minds of the vocal minority of people who hate unconventional looks. These 'cute Elezen' would make all of the existing Elezen NPCs look weird in comparison.

S-E deliberately didn't call them elves, because they're not elves. They're not 'disproportionate', because they conform precisely to the proportions of Elezen within the game's world, which is the only place that Elezen exist at all (promotional art is seldom accurate for this series). We don't care about how there'd be more Elezen if we lost our unique proportions because as far as I know none of us receive secret financial incentives for attracting other players to make characters like ours. This is a non-problem.

Can we go back to improving the character creator for everyone instead of trying to promote virtual genocide on people with a different sense of attractiveness to the mainstream? There are five other races to choose from, you don't all have to be Elezen!