Character Creation Has A Race Problem

[AscendantManes]

I'll concede that the Hyur would benefit from more facial features, but as for your "racial" claim...



I literally got this result by hitting Randomize until I got something I can tweak into this. There's further hair options than available in the character creation.

I don't know what you really want, OP, because I get the feeling this isn't about character creation limitations. And maybe I don't want to know.

[Lauront]

Don't care.

Prefer this over some ME: Andromeda cringe fest.

Not everything needs to be "diverse" in the sense you mention.

[CainCrimson]

Not everything needs to be "diverse" in the sense you mention.

[Magic-Mal]

XD .

[Raou]

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[Bahati]

I'm not sure how I feel about OP considering the character creation options being not "black" enough. Not extensive enough, sure but not black enough?

Come on now, we're past assuming people of African descent can't have various shades of brown complexion, thin lips and high nose bridges, aren't we?

[Nandina]

I would have thought someone so concerned with diversity being represented in-game would choose to play something other than a pink haired miqo'te female.

Pink hair doesn’t exist naturally in real life and neither does a miqo’te.

[Vidu]

Pink hair doesn’t exist naturally in real life and neither does a miqo’te.

Exactly.
This is not real life, its a fantasy world - why is there a need to remodel real life racial features in this not-real life setting?
Why try to make a midlander Hyur look like black person when their origin is clearly not africa? Thats like telling europeans that they have to try to look more black.

I'd say that depending on race and their specific lore and origin stories it would be easier to make a more ethnic looking character - just how you get more asian-type faces for Au Ra because, well, they're from the "asia" or east in Eorzea.

I'll admit that I've never tried to model anything but super-pale characters but I'd guess that if you pick a fitting race you can actually re-create racial features if you desire to do so. That race might just not be midlander for some of those because that race is drawing more from other influences.

But bottomline: we have stuff in game that doesnt exist in real life and that seems okay to you. Why isnt it okay then to have real life stuff missing from the game?

[Nabril]

Pink hair doesn’t exist naturally in real life and neither does a miqo’te.

good point! Besides, we could easily make use of pink dye

[Nandina]

Exactly.
This is not real life, its a fantasy world - why is there a need to remodel real life racial features in this not-real life setting?
Why try to make a midlander Hyur look like black person when their origin is clearly not africa? Thats like telling europeans that they have to try to look more black.

But is a Hyur’s origin Europe? Think before you type. I’m not saying a European has to look like anything other than what they are. Careful you may dislocate your shoulder with that reach.