Quote Originally Posted by Theodric View Post
A very vocal group of players has attempted to hijack the race to push a sinister agenda. Of those requesting such a body type, reading between the lines strongly suggests that they intend to dress their character in suggestive glamour and design them to be as young and slender as possible. Given that such would make them indistinguishable from children, it should be obvious why it would be a very bad idea.
Just because people want the small cute version doesn't automatically mean they want it for a "sinister agenda", any more than people currently picking Lalafell or the daintier 'human' races do. Especially since the concept art does exist for that design, as Sigria posted above - which makes me wonder whether it would have been brought up so much if we'd only ever seen the "warrior" concept art for the males.

Though it does seem strange to me that people would keep requesting the young version after we'd seen the confirmed female design was from the other set of concept art. Perhaps they were just fixed on the one version and kept hoping for it without really thinking about how the two went together.

But still. No automatic sinister agenda. Those "young versions" are really nice character designs, and I would maybe make an alt just to look cute - absolutely no suggestive glamour involved. There are certainly a number of costume pieces that I'd like to use for something, but don't look right on my current male characters. Particularly shorts, or the sailor top (which is cute but doesn't look right on my male or female characters), or a few things that I currently use for my Elezen but I think would look better on a smaller character - though not quite down to Lalafell size.