Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[BillyKaplan]

Rather, lets just not think about how NPC's gonna do what and we are fine... I guess.

My suspense of disbelief works just fine when it's the laws unique to the fictional world I'm in. WoL? Primals? The First? Allagans? Dragons and Omega from outer space? Sure.
But I don't think they ever established biology and evolution work differently, which is why I can't accept this.

[Crushnight]

I wonder if Hrothgar males could if needed get pregnant to help keep their population in check but until they state otherwise just a head cannon

[Beki_Bayaqad]

I wonder if Hrothgar males could if needed get pregnant to help keep their population in check but until they state otherwise just a head cannon

Short answer? No
Long answer? Very No. Mammalians cannot spontaneously (and by that I mean a gradual but sudden) change genders from male to female even psudologically, unlike some breeds of reptile, amphibian or fish.

[Tlachtga]

It might be feasible if Hrothgar are haplo-diploid egg layers; with social rules preventing too many females from being produced to prevent potential challenges to the queen's reign.

[dustyace]

A race where females are 'staggeringly rare' is even more ridiculous than the reverse. How exactly are they keeping their population stable? Assuming that 'rare' in this case is the same as for male Viera (meaning 1 in 10) wouldn't they either have to produce large litters of children, or have every woman spend most of her adult life pregnant just to maintain population numbers without any growth?

The new lore gets a hard yikes from me. I don’t think they thought about the implications of that decision.

[Kelryth]

no? I havn't gotten through Stormblood yet and hw was a long time ago...lol I'm using a new character as I've forgotten stuff...lol

[Lacan]

no? I havn't gotten through Stormblood yet and hw was a long time ago...lol I'm using a new character as I've forgotten stuff...lol

I can't remember the exact details, but something about being exposed to Bahamut's aether changed Nael into a woman? So it has happened before. lol

[BillyKaplan]

I can't remember the exact details, but something about being exposed to Bahamut's aether changed Nael into a woman? So it has happened before. lol

It was actually a brother and sister combo where one's memories were overwritten or something, but a lot of that story wasn't included in the 2.0 portions. At the very least, they weren't translated too well, if they existed. It was left to the lore book and other media
But we do know that aether does transmute living organisms, as is evident throughout the game and especially in Eureka, so that's still actually more than a valid explanation to anything they want to do with it!

[Omegakiyohime]

I can't remember the exact details, but something about being exposed to Bahamut's aether changed Nael into a woman? So it has happened before. lol

It's actually more of a Mulan scenario with Nael. She took the identity of her dead brother, Nael, and wore the armor to conceal it.

[Quipsy]

Now I really feel sorry for the poor lion ladies. Talk about the short end of the stick! At least boy buns get to be roving rabbits, the cat dames seem to be stuck in... some kind of deeply unpleasant situation. This is what happens when you paint yourself into a corner--you don't think things through and accidentally create a dystopian society. (The kind of problem you run into during NaNoWriMo...) I'm really into seeing male viera unlocked, but this new lore kind of makes me want to see the big cat girls be released even more because... eeeesh. Maybe write the unlock as a recent and miraculous explosion in the birth of females, I don't know--the current situation there is just too weird.