Did you race change, and did you stay?

[DocQuixotic]

Yeah I switched the second Shadowbringers released. Never looked back. I was a femroe but I just love playing monsterous races. I miss being a girl and wearing hats but I have A really cool moustache and tail now.

[KaijinRhada]

My character was a male Keeper of the Moon back in ARR, changed to male Xaela upon HW release and never changed to anything else. I initially had plans to go back and forth every six months, but it was hard for me to justify the expense, and now it's a matter of I can't imagine my boy being anything else. I love everything about my character now (except for the awkward /dance).

It's hard to say what I'll do for future races, since who knows what they'll be, but this time around with Hrothgar and Viera, I wasn't enamoured by them as far as fantasias or alts go. I did like Hrothgar enough for a retainer fantasia though.

[AngeliouxRein]

I honestly think I was Viera for a day before I got bored. Not because of limitations, just not enough oomph or something. Plus, I’m not into tall chars so I guess there’s that also.

[SturmChurro]

I use a fantasia usually about once a month (when I am semi-active). I have presets that I go back to often though.

[Tyssyn]

I started as a Moon kitter back in ARR, made another moon kitter when I came back in the middle of Stormblood and went to Viera as soon as we could, switched back for a couple of months to kitter because my in game fella missed me as kitter and we did our Eternal Bonding ceremony - I thuoght he'd like that with me as my miqo. Then a week later I couldn't resist and went back to Viera. I realized while I have so many hairstyles I only like a few of them so while I want more Viera hairstyles, I'm not really all that limitted.

I'll likely switch back and forth between my miqo look and my viera look when I want to check out the hairstyles they add to the game.

[Sharksandrew]

I've been Hrothgar about 5 times already. I like them it's just they are hunched over and some tops look very strange on them to me. Tho I haven't been fully happy with any race I've been. Tho if Garlean becomes playable that would be fun since I enjoy their lore. Tho I really think we need more face options for all races.

[Arillyn]

I was a sun kitty forever. Was never going to change (I used my free fantasias as a joke with the fc but saved my last one to change back to my sun kitty). Then ShB came out and I played around with Viera cuz why not and I fell in love so I did use a fantasia on my main. I LOVED her. I knew going in that limitations on hats were a thing but I figured I would be okay with that as I almost never wear hats anyway. It was not being able to use all the hairstyles I had collected on my main that did me in. But, I wasn't sure I was quite ready to go back to my sun kitty so I opted to try an au ra. I really love her so I've kept her this way for a while now. I may go back to my sun kitty at some point. I did make an alt into my bun bun though and that she will stay.

[AlphaFox]

Was a female lalafell but changed as my girlfriend was going to join me, still has yet to do so. So now a lot of my retainers are sitting with dresses and outfits I can't wear now. Somewhat regretting the choice but probably won't go back still, yet I can't bear to toss them as a "What if I DO change back though!?"

[Packetdancer]

I played as a female Midlander in 1.0, stopped playing, lost my account information (ironically, found it again a couple of months ago, though I haven't tried to see what happens if someone tries to import a 1.0 character at this late stage), and started over as a female Keeper of the Moon miqo'te in 2.0. But I spent a bunch of time making a serious-looking miqo'te field medic, and then cutscenes always had her with such cutesy emotes it annoyed me.

Eventually I drifted off somewhere in the lead-up to Heavensward and—save for a brief 3-4 day attempt to return during Stormblood—I didn't come back again until last August. My best friend suggested that maybe I should Fantasia into something else so the cutesy miqo'te emotes didn't irritate me. So on my first login in August, I logged in, pulled out a Fantasia that'd been sitting in my chocobo saddlebag for literal years, and drank it; I think my original character was on-screen for all of fifteen seconds. Redid my character as a Highlander, and have never looked back; the Highlander emotes suit what I envision as her personality a lot more.

Though I did then have to come up with a mental explanation for why a Highlander had a miqo'te name, since I didn't want to pay for the name change when I was just taking a stab to see if I wanted to come back. Because though I don't RP in FFXIV, I'm enough of a writer and a D&D player and whatnot that I do need a sort of mental backstory for my character that's at least mostly lore-compliant. So I came up with one, and off I went.

If I knew I'd be sticking around more than a year this time, I probably would've paid for the name change. But at this point, it's just what everyone in the FC I've been in since my return calls me, and 'Khit' feels too much my in-game name to bid it farewell.

(I did make a baby-alt, though, who is once again a female miqo'te—this time, a Seeker of the Sun. She is a smol, angry tank, and for whatever reason the cutesy emotes don't annoy me with her; instead, they come across as incredibly sarcastic, possibly because of how she reverts to her carefully-fashioned default borderline-angry/sour demeanor immediately afterwards. Side note: let me set an actual default facial expression, Square-Enix!)

[Corbeau]

I switched, but the need for hats was too powerful - so back to cat!