[Spoiler... sort of?] Sri Lakshmi

[Alleo]

Well Sophia has humans (we've seen Elezen, Hyur and Roegadyn thralls) as her worshippers, so it kinda makes sense they would imagine their Goddess to be humanoid.

True, still sad that she was the only one that got a more human appearance while the males ones in the triad are beastly. I mean how big is the chance that she was the only one that got worshiped by human looking races and the other two not? Honestly in the end as a real life woman I just want more female enemies that look different than "mostly beautiful with some beastly parts". Heck the only one that comes to my mind that looks at least way more beastly is Echidna in the 24 man raid. And on top of that I want just some more handsome male enemies. Just some more mixed up stuff so that I can still be surprised in a way and not think "oh another female primal well she will probably look xx way".

Maybe I am just hoping for too much. Since I am not a general FF fan (barely played other games in the series) I dont feel a huge way when they introduce certain primals as a homage. In the end I want them to make sense in FF14 and sometimes I do wonder if the part with the homage and fanservice is not taking a bit away from the game itself. (I mean was it ever explained why the bosses look a certain way in the new 24 man raid? Because for me they just feel a bit off since they are just there.) But thats probably a post for another topic.

Within the scope of the lore, it is possible that Lakshmi's appearance was influenced by that, and under more deliberate circumstances she may have looked different.

But the Ananta queen was angered and sad over the death of her beloved daughter. If the feelings are changing the primal then shouldnt she have looked more savage? Or acted more angry? Titan is a good example because we saw him summoned again where he was influenced by the rage of the child and thus even attacked his own believers. If such an anger and grief makes a primal so angry why was Laskhimi so calm?

Sometimes it feels like the "lore" behind the primals is a bit changing. They said that they dont have one set of appearance and that they change depending on their believer. So Titan and Ifrit makes sense. Garuda being a woman makes sense too if they still know that she was original a woman. Yet her appearance is a big change towards the other two and makes less sense. Then we have Ramuh who is one of the male primals where I am not sure why he was summoned in that way since the slyphs dont even look anyway near human. Here it feels just like "other FF Ramuhs looked that way so we will do it that way too".

Its just on one hand you will have primals that at least follow the rule of "looking like the summoners want them to" and others that just look a certain way for homages and fanservice. But that just might be me.