The Men FFXIV Needs

[Fourbestintoner]

Hroths and vieras should have been the hint this game is only ever going to get fujobaits and bara clowns.

[BaconBits]

[Theodric]

At any rate...here's some more examples of tall, conventionally attractive masculine men who represent the sort of options I'd like to see brought to the table:

Steve Fox from the Tekken games:



Kiryu Kazuma from the Yakuza games:



I'll post some more examples later, if anyone is interested!

[Jagick]

How does Kiryu always manage to look so perpetually mad? I get one hell of a headache if I furrow my brow like that for more than ten minutes because the sun is too bright or something.

[Setesh45]

Travis Fimmel

Karl Urban

Viggo Mortensen

Idris Elba

Joe Manganiello

Ian Somerhalder

Paul Walker

Clint Eastwood

Michael B. Jordan

So many beautiful men...

What we have:

[SannaR]

Would more options be good? Sure. As long as it doesn't go as far as "Dude that's been very roughly chiseled from a slab of Granite with skin that looks as rough as volcanic rock feels. " or your typical Mr. Universe contestant.

[RyuDragnier]

How does Kiryu always manage to look so perpetually mad? I get one hell of a headache if I furrow my brow like that for more than ten minutes because the sun is too bright or something.

I just assume it's his resting ***** face.

[Kazhar]

Would more options be good? Sure. As long as it doesn't go as far as "Dude that's been very roughly chiseled from a slab of Granite with skin that looks as rough as volcanic rock feels. " or your typical Mr. Universe contestant.

Why not? If "literally a baby on a man's body" is acceptable for the game, why not this?
Even Nomura, for all the shit he gets, knew he had to design at least one stereotypically masculine character in his sea of pretty boys.

[Theodric]

How does Kiryu always manage to look so perpetually mad? I get one hell of a headache if I furrow my brow like that for more than ten minutes because the sun is too bright or something.

Yeah, it's...intense. I like it, though. The game is desperately in need of some more testosterone so it'd be nice to create a character who looks like that without venturing into ugly territory.

[SannaR]

Why not? If "literally a baby on a man's body" is acceptable for the game, why not this?
Even Nomura, for all the shit he gets, knew he had to design at least one stereotypically masculine character in his sea of pretty boys.

Funny I don't remember most of the player base saying they liked or that they wanted more characters that were Emmanellain Fortemps clones. You know a character model that actually uses one of the few baby face types. Yet I feel the other extreme is going too far. I said I wouldn't be against more options or even more representation of npcs that looked like your Henry Cavills, Idris Elbas or Chadwick Bosemans. I'd even go for Michael B Jordan or Anthony Mackie, but I think a few in this thread would call them too smooth and not masculine enough. Even Lou Diamond Phillips would be on my list. Along with Sebastian Stan.