Give Highlanders eyebrows already

[Riardon]

It's so easy to add eyebrows by either altering the textures of the male Highlander models or add them as face tattoos.
And don't tell me there is one already cause those are not eyebrows. They are thick owl eyebrows like bridges.
I also want more facial hair.
You know like the stubble they added on the benchmark as a merciless tease to only forget to actually add it in game.

[AxelDH]

I'm OK with this, but only if we can call them 'Highbrows'.

[IsaacMerquise]

Showerthought: Why does a Highlander who devotes his life to being a healer need to shave his eyebrows off to be intimidating? Like???? "Grrrr I'm scary, sit still while I fix your broken bones."

[grinkdaboy]

i hear arguments about "lore"

but the entire point of your character is that you can give them whatever backstory they want. what's so wrong about having a male highlander who does not observe that particular custom/tradition and does not shave their eyebrows? and this presents another oddity: why do the highlanders of the 1st shave their eyebrows? i thought the cultures of each race were supposed to have drastically diverged from one another compared to their counterparts on the source.

[Riardon]

i hear arguments about "lore"

but the entire point of your character is that you can give them whatever backstory they want. what's so wrong about having a male highlander who does not observe that particular custom/tradition and does not shave their eyebrows? and this presents another oddity: why do the highlanders of the 1st shave their eyebrows? i thought the cultures of each race were supposed to have drastically diverged from one another compared to their counterparts on the source.

It makes sense when you develop and need to use the same models to cut costs and time.
Also people would scream they want to use the eyebrows on their characters as well.
See what happened with the midlanders stubble that was shown in benchmark and in promo (in-game videos) and it's still not in game.
They still trying to figure a way to implement it according to Yoshi in a recent interview.
The game's engine and code is utter trash and won't allow for such additions easily.
Perhaps another Dalamud event to allow a relaunch with a new engine or a new Online FF made from scratch could allow things we always wanted.

[IsaacMerquise]

It makes sense when you develop and need to use the same models to cut costs and time.
Also people would scream they want to use the eyebrows on their characters as well.
See what happened with the midlanders stubble that was shown in benchmark and in promo (in-game videos) and it's still not in game.
They still trying to figure a way to implement it according to Yoshi in a recent interview.
The game's engine and code is utter trash and won't allow for such additions easily.
Perhaps another Dalamud event to allow a relaunch with a new engine or a new Online FF made from scratch could allow things we always wanted.

If it really is an engine and code issue, they could just as easily make a facepaint option that Actually looks like eyebrows and not caterpillars on my Highlander's face. Honestly, the longer it goes without my race of choice having a base cosmetic issue, the more jaded I become about it.

[Theodric]

I'm still waiting for this to be implemented. It's been a request since the days of ARR. I also guarantee that there would be an uptick in the number of people playing a Highlander male if the eyebrow issue was resolved. I've tried to play one from time to time but the eyebrow issue is always a deal-breaker.

[MsQi]

What lore?

[SamRF]

SE, think about all the Fantasia sales you're missing out on.

[IsaacMerquise]

What lore?

Part of me wants to respond to this with "exactly" because of how dumb it is, but it's "canon" in the lore that apparently every single Highlander male shaves their eyebrows off to look "intimidating," even the healers, the old men and the scholars, even the warrior of light if he were a Highlander.