Quote Originally Posted by Theodric View Post
I predict a sharp rise in the number of male characters in FFXIV once the older character models are given a new coat of paint. I like playing tall, well-built male characters who have attractive facial features but that's hard to accomplish in FFXIV without sacrificing something. I really like my Midlander's face, for example, though he isn't as tall or well-built as I would like him to be. Equally, if I went Highlander he'd have the perfect height and physique...but look like he'd been in way too many barfights. Raen and Xaela men can be made to be pretty attractive but their tails and horns lead to clipping and the hourglass figure is a bit...off to me. Elezen have awkward proportions and despite playing a Blood Elf in WoW, I have no desire to play an Elezen in FFXIV. Miqo'te are too short for my liking. I have no desire to play a Lalafell and Roegadyn are too bulky. Viera do nothing for me, especially given certain aspects of their lore.
I know this is a bit late sort of, being this is a few weeks back you posted this. I am reading this thread backwards >.> I kind of would like to see more male characters in the game if people do decide to switch if their is substantial amount of change in the character creator. I have my fantasia in my saddle bag waiting for the day they add something I can't change that would make my character closer to what I wish for. Ironically though many anime's have otokonoko it seems that in mmos you are unable to be one. I just want my character with no chest that is all, but in every game the men are usually super manly the closest I guess would be the feminine look you can kind of get from bunny boys and cat boys, but they are too manly. Sure you can wear some dresses, but I honestly can't win in final fantasy.

Right now I can't wear most shorts because female character models are perfectly capable of wearing some shorts but not others. If I picked male character I would not be able to wear most dresses if I wanted to. For some reason female models with smaller chest size have a weird issue where they have saggy pai pai in many dresses I did wish to make an outfit out of. I ended up not really getting what I wished for anyway, but still wish to stay the height I have chosen which is shorter than bunny boys and cat boys can be as well as the feminine emotes I wished for.
It is like this in dark souls where if you go masculine you get unga bunga cave man face and feminine gives you baby Michael Jackson but alien baby michael jackson, which could be hillarious if that was what I wished to go for, but I just wanted to make otokonoko. It was the same in Aion if you went to the more boyish or feminine frame even with their vast character creator you would get terrifying looking baby faces or big manly men and nothing in between.

Just once I would like to be myself in a video game. T_T There are so many outfits too I wish to wear but if you are female in ff you get the only that option and no cool frontier jacket for you. It isn't a huge problem, but gosh I know even with the update this will probably not be the case. It is a bit strange when otokonoko or traps are in numerous japanese media and crossdressing may not be super popular but does exist as well as crossplay for cosplay, but usually in video games it is really tough to find a character creator that does this, I mean at all.

I just needed to lowkey vent about this and your post reminded me of it that and the the fact that when looking on the market board a hat a hat was gender locked >.< A hat! How can I not wear this on my head? There must be powerful Eorzean magicks at work here directly from the void not deeming me worthy to wear a hat and can only wear a bow.