Give Highlanders eyebrows already

[IsaacMerquise]

Seriously, I get it. "The lore though," but this is a really weak and lame answer. I get it, it's your game and you can do whatever you want with it. But man, it's really disheartening to be the only race in the game without a basic facial cosmetic option. We're forced to either look like insane neanderthals or have gigantic face paint caterpillars on our foreheads. I'm sure there are in lore Highlanders that are born outside of traditions or families that decide "hey, here's a hot take. Let's not teach our boys to buzz their eyebrows off." I can't understand why people are so cool with a race of basically humans lacking something literally almost 100% of humans have. It should be an option for players to do something like removing eyebrows to look "intimidating" not mandatory.

[DrWho2010]

don't be a male highlander then?

[Raltar]

I mean, I would like eyebrows, but it doesn't bother me so much that I'll race change to something else just for eyebrows. But I would support eyebrows if it came down to it.

[IsaacMerquise]

don't be a male highlander then?

I think you missed the point of this. I love the race and playing one, but the lack of a base cosmetic feature that literally everyone else has is frustrating. I'm not alone in this thought either, there are a lot of players confused to why we can't have simple eyebrows.

[Vahlnir]

A lack of eyebrows isn't really a deal breaker for me. I love the race. But I do think that it is a bit silly that they don't have eyebrows even as an option. And no, I don't think painting them on solves it. It reminds me of that one episode of Brooklyn Nine Nine where Terry shaves his eyebrows off and tries to paint them back on to avoid having facial hair mites.

[DrWho2010]

well unless you can really present a solid case to the devs it's not gonna change anytime soon. it's baked into the main lore of the game. not something to be changed on a whim just because "i wanna have them".

[reiichi]

Our very player characters already ignore most of the racial/clan lore, aside from being of unknown origin. Who is to say they'd even be following traditions anyways? Should we also ask SE to remove all the formerly tribal/clannish city Miqo'te because they're not acting like the Keepers/Seekers they are in the lore? Or ask that all Duskwight NPCs please either become poachers or go back to hiding in Gelmorra? Plenty of characters/NPCs don't follow their norms and traditions. It'd be a nice option if SE allowed the player character to as well given our already very limited character creator options.

[Malmstrom]

And yet not once had it ever bothered me while playing and interacting with NPCs. Matter of fact, I didn't even notice until I read one of these threads.

[Vahlnir]

Our very player characters already ignore most of the racial/clan lore, aside from being of unknown origin. Who is to say they'd even be following traditions anyways? Should we also ask SE to remove all the formerly tribal/clannish city Miqo'te because they're not acting like the Keepers/Seekers they are in the lore? Or ask that all Duskwight NPCs please either become poachers or go back to hiding in Gelmorra? Plenty of characters/NPCs don't follow their norms and traditions. It'd be a nice option if SE allowed the player character to as well given our already very limited character creator options.

Yeah, saying "b-b-but the lore!" really doesn't hold any weight. The devs have changed their own lore so many times, and will change it many more.

[Destati]

Even male Au Ra have the option to have eyebrows... Highlanders should have the option too.
Though seeing as the devs are struggling even to add the stubble from the ShB benchmark, I doubt it'll happen anytime soon...