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    Quote Originally Posted by DamianFatale View Post
    Add a race after female hrothgar are added, but not a race with a gender. Instead make them non binary and gender ambiguous.
    FF11 had a single-sex playable species, which depending on your lens can be read as non-binary. Through the lens of our culture we'd generally view their physical aesthetic as masc, but that's just their bodies, whereas gender lives within each individual's brain.

    I'm not sure if I'd want an entire race that was non-binary. It seems like the Pixies, Fauth, and Nu Mou are presented as enby, and while I appreciate that we got something rather than nothing, making gender a species-wide trait seems like taking one step forward and then one step back. Because if a Pixie identifies as male or female, that should be valid, in the same way that it should be valid if a Midlander identifies as non-binary; which is to say, restricting gender options based on species isn't the right way to go, since gender is an individual's experience. It would be better to instead allow the members of each species a greater variety of options to be acknowledged as and express as the gender that matches what's in their brain.

    That said, it would nice to be to be able to play as a being that entirely lacked the physical trappings of human sex. Let my Warrior of Light be a Pudding! I don't expect any further playable species, but I wouldn't say no to that. ^^
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    Last edited by LilimoLimomo; 10-12-2023 at 06:49 AM. Reason: phrasing