Please add Hilda's hairstyle for all!

[AnimaAnimus]

Yeah isn't she just a hyur model, but with elezen ears? I think the devs did make comments about this, but can't remember what that was. "something something limitations with the engine"

The vast majority of "unique" character models are recycling base models from something else, like most Garleans are either Hyur or Elezen models if you look up the NPC in the database.

It has nothing to do with just recycling base models. She is half hyur, half elezen. Basically a half-elf. It is stated in game that she was born to a hyurian woman and her father was a high ranking elezen who refuses to claim her as his own.

She was created during a time SE was dabbling with introduing mixed race npcs. The engine limitation was about not letting players play mixed race characters because it would be too difficult and come with too many restrictions, esp with lala and roe. Like there was no way to make a half lala, half roe and even a half lala, half elezen would be problematic due to the engine, the armor models and such. They would basically have had to make options for all possible combinations which would have been a massive undertaking. Then you also have certain implications that came with a race that looks like a child mixing with very adult looking races it and how that would be interprited to a non-player audience.

They have mostly just abandoned the concept.

[ScudLance]

YES PLEASE. YOSHI PLZ. also hilda, wowee, My WiFe.

[Kadence_Mithra]

I just realized tonight after getting machinist to 90 that I was missing a skill because I stopped the job quests at 70. I was blindsided by Hilda, who I had forgotten about but absolutely loved back in HW and now need to look at her throughout the quest, questioning why I can’t use her hair or be a half-elezen.

PLEASE SE, let me have one, or the other, *or both*! I am dying over here!