Gender locked race?

[redcurrant18]

The people want male Viera ♪(๑ᴖ◡ᴖ๑)♪ and we won't shut up until we get them ♪٩(✿′ᗜ‵✿)۶♪

[Shippuu]

You can't say anything in this thread without at least 10 academic sources.

Do you have a source for that rule?!?!

We flew in, had Fran with us, and immediately walked into a gigantic monster-riddled building. That's a big difference between just waltzing around the jungle solo and picking some flowers to make crafting tea.

I mean, there was plenty of story threads left by Fran such as who she serves. That person couldn't possibly find reason to invite us into their woods with a special sanction like we've gotten time and time before with all kinds of places normal people/outsiders couldn't tread.

There is some real stubbornness if you refuse to see that Suzaku and Ultima are beautiful women, especially when you look at their male counterparts who have been monsterized far more than they have.

They still had monstrous forms. I took umbrage to the comment that implied SE makes no female enemies with monstrous forms. I should have read more into the context of that discussion but I didn't as the topic in general doesn't interest me on how SE models female enemies. I only commented because of the broad statement that there were no female "enemies" with monstrous forms because there are, and they're more than just "poroggo #55" tier of enemies.
I'll back out of that discussion though since I wasn't invested into the intended context/scope of it.

Yea dw lotta games i never played ff11 but when i saw garuda in ff14 i had to look back to see where the female type came from as only saw monster garuda prior XD Lakshmi is a weird one the only other instance of Lakshmi is ff6 The goddess of the painting that the demon Chardanok took over we have that in Sigmascape so ff14 Lakshmi is actually unique in ff series hence why her full name is Sri Lakshmi but despite saying she has a snake tail we never see it a design change that Yoshi wanted it does make you wonder how much has been changed due to his opinion suddenly little more scared for male viera reveal :S

Yeah, Yoshida often does a lot of things that are his own personal tastes, even going against Final Fantasy staples/history if he feels strongly about something. Samurai was a solid example of this, especially fleshed out in a recent interview where he basically said his favorite movies regarding Samurai was always the ronin type and that it was why he made Samurai in 14 follow that archetype when they've been typically depicted as being the armored versions in the vast majority of Final Fantasy games. He definitely picks and chooses when he wants to be faithful to the franchise etc and isn't above putting his personal tastes above other things (which I can't blame him for, he's human after all and the director of the game, he gets to make those choices even if I disagree with them).