Open Letter to the Devs Regarding Eden's Verse: Reflugence [Spoilers]

[AnonymousBard]

Similar concept: In the U.S. you have so many grown men in public gym locker rooms who refuse to get naked to change clothes. If they do get naked, they hide in a shower to dress or turn to a corner in such a way so that absolutely nobody can see their wiener (even though, in reality, nobody is looking or even cares). I believe this is caused by a combination of puritanical beliefs, society making sexuality taboo, physical insecurity due to wiener appearance pressures/expectations, and a slight fear of homosexuality.

Dude, every guy has a wiener. You won't necessarily become gay if you look at one, and I am not going to tackle you if I see yours. Stop being so weird in the locker room, you are embarrassing yourself.

Wait, you mean you're not supposed to do that? Man, High school makes so much more sense now...

[Nestama]

No. I think you're forgetting this is a different world they are in. It's why Ramuh, Ifrit and Garuda look different. So hence, Shiva will as well even if they didn't use Ryne.

Aren't they different in appearance because we're also getting Ryne's interpretation of what the Primals look like based on hearsay (and also Eden)? If we took Ryne and Eden out of the equation, chances are the Primals would just be the ARR versions again.

[Xion136]

Aren't they different in appearance because we're also getting Ryne's interpretation of what the Primals look like based on hearsay (and also Eden)? If we took Ryne and Eden out of the equation, chances are the Primals would just be the ARR versions again.

No it's us providing the memories and Ryne using them and Eden to manifest.

It's us. It's all us. Until E8

[ShinShimon]

1. Sometimes art should make you feel uncomfortable.
2. Ryne does not, in fact, actually exist.

[Flatopia]

lmao
lmao

how do you get through your day to day?
Like, if you get into a party with a lala in a bikini do you just leave?

[Jeeqbit]

When I was 4 years old, I was taught to swim and the teachers had to see me in V-pants. Does that constitute lewding? No, and Ryne's age is much greater than that.

[Ashlette]

lmao
lmao

how do you get through your day to day?
Like, if you get into a party with a lala in a bikini do you just leave?

When I was 4 years old, I was taught to swim and the teachers had to see me in V-pants. Does that constitute lewding? No, and Ryne's age is much greater than that.

Ryne is nude. She's not wearing a bikini.

Sexuality wouldn't be such a taboo subject if we weren't so prudish as a society. It's always so strange to me the Western Civs went through entire eras of free-love and body expression only to have a weird reversion back into Puritanic pearl-clutching.

How can we be inundated every single day with articles screeching that "women aren't sexual objects", but at the merest hint of a low neckline, women claim an entire situation automatically becomes sexually charged? Seems a bit irrational to me.

Don't get me started on the utterly ridiculous idea that children are children and MUST be kept as children until that magical day they turn 18 years old and automatically they are expected to be an adult and understand complex mature topics like financial independence, social decorum, and sexuality. People don't make sense.

I love how this post has 14 likes yet it wrongly conflates sexualization with objectification. One discussion is not like the other.

Also, 18 is not an arbitrary number. It grants children a sufficiently long buffer to fully develop (girls finish developing at 15-17, boys finish developing at 16-17) and learn about themselves and sexual relationships after they reach puberty. And by your logic, children will learn complex mature topics as they get older, so the older the child, the more likely they will fulfill your criteria. Ultimately, it's the expected number of children who fulfills your criteria by age that counts. And someone thought 18 was a good age to pick.

[Reinha]

Ryne is nude. She's not wearing a bikini.

Isn't she wearing a dragon?

[SDaemon]

Isn't she wearing a dragon?

In Savage she goes Cruella de Vil on Hraesvelgr. Otherwise she just rotates between frigid ice lady with not-so-modest clothing to shining naked lady with lots of particle effects.

[Kobalos]

I did E8 normal last night and some of the comments folks were making towards Ryne were eyebrow raising to say the least...:/