Female Viera are what Au Ra should've been...

[Tsiron]

... and it's bumming me out lol.

They've got the physique, they've got the stature, their stance is similar to male Au Ra, and an argument could be made for Viera's more subdued emotes contrasting that of their counterparts.

Dragons my ass, the more I think about it I suspect Au Ra were meant to be an incubus/succubus type duo, but that doesn't mean the difference had to be that extreme... Viera look like they could've made fine demon ladies, themselves

[Ayuhra]

I'd play a female Au Ra if they weren't so delicate looking. I've been working on trying to get a design down for one that seems less waifish but it's hard with the tools we have.

[Tsiron]

I'd play a female Au Ra if they weren't so delicate looking. I've been working on trying to get a design down for one that seems less waifish but it's hard with the tools we have.

I still haven't gotten over my disappointment at how the devs handled them, after all these years.

I did actually make a female Au Ra alt not too long ago, and was reasonably happy with her look (wish I'd gone with face 4 tho tbh)... until I got her in-game and, usual disappointments aside (their height..), saw their animations/emotes. Needless to say, my opinion has not changed...

I thought viera have more subdued emotes because they can live to be over 300 years old. So beneath that bunny-girl exterior is a hundred-year-old grandma.

Certainly could be the case, but not necessarily the only way one might develop those mannerisms, right?

[MikkoAkure]

an argument could be made for Viera's more subdued emotes contrasting that of their counterparts.

I thought viera have more subdued emotes because they can live to be over 300 years old. So beneath that bunny-girl exterior is a hundred-year-old grandma.

[Fukuro]

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[Ayuhra]

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If they had used that design in game I would have race changed to female au ra day one of Heavensward and never looked back.

[Kolsykol]

I mean they're popular for a reason people clearly love them.
Imo it's actually the male Au'Ra that looks derpy ( especially their animations ) while the female ones look great.

Personally tho I would've prefered a Succubus race, I actually thought that some of the early concept art looked like it.

If they looked like demonic powerful Voidsent they would have been a popular race for edgelords such as myself.

While that may be true, they wouldn't have been as popular overall I'd bet.

I see a lot of people compare them to Miqo'te too, I think they look a bit more doll-like and a lot of people make them look '' goth '' in the Lolita fashion style.
Miqo'te are more like '' lewd neko chan '' while Au'Ra are more like dolls imo their faces have that look.

[Shougun]

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The Au Ra concept art, for both male and female, was really awesome. IIRC Yoshida mentioned something about them semi-recently, saying they were pretty neat.

I'd love to see those in game. There are of course probably other races people want to see too, like maybe short and furry now that we have big lol, and that's fine. But I would say the male and female concept Au Ra might have a decent chance to both bring something a bit unique to the table and yet also be quite popular. Particular the latter Au Ra, though face types for the more extreme I think would be quite nice.

Super model look will always win #1 though. So the latter face would keep it popular, the former being interesting but unlikely to edge out anything but the other lower races.

Lot of work but I imagine they could include this as a third clan to Au Ra, and then you might slowly see third clans to other races too (which reduces some of the animation / bone work perhaps). Like Lala third clan might be a fuzzy moogle like race. Maybe Highlander is closer to Royal Garlean. Hrothgar might need a different bone but you might imagine one closer to the tiger primal from Stormblood. Elezen might do well to have a more stereotypical elf appearance, perhaps a partial blood race (or concentrated somehow), to lessen the dhalmel neck yet accentuate the classical elf features. It is neat FFXI / FFXIV tried to not be super stereotypical I suppose, but honestly it's a little funny elves are not the most popular because usually they are in other games.

[White_Wolf_X]

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To this day i'm still sad they didn't stay true to that design.

[HollowedDoll]

Yes, Female Au Ra could've been something better than a rehashed miqote uwu girl.