A question about lalafells in ARR

[Delsus]

i can haz one with all flavors?
and bigger bustses for all = rights and all that, seriously they can give it to lala girls without making it look to weird i think.

Nope one flavour only.

[Nuinn]

This is your personal opinion.

For example:To many others, Miqo'te Girls and Hume Female Midlanders look like jailbait as well, but no one whines about that and they ARE allowed to have a skimpy clothes and 'augmentations'. They even have flirty and suggestive emotes. Even the males of these races are teenage looking. The only races that look more mature (for both sexes) are Highlander Humes, and Roegadyns...maybe some Elezen (but again you can make a young, short Elezen).

Yes, it is absolutely true that lala's tend to have the 'cute' expressions, and that ALL characters in this game were drawn with a more 'cutsy' ideal (even the tougher characters have some cute charactistics). But again, cute does not=young...it simply is more a 'non-sexy' class. Boobs don't automatically= sexiness and to be very frank, as a girl I'm disgusted by men who think that the only thing that can possibly define my sexual desirable-ness is my 'boobs' and their size.

The fact is this is the Final Fantasy franchise and a Japanese developed game. Almost ALL their characters have looked young. Even in most console versions, the average age for the characters is about 21 with one main character being 'old' (Think Auron). This is the Anime culture...youth is big.

And just to be clear, to me your avatar looks about 14... in my head, his voice hasn't even matured yet...but if you decided you wanted a 'large package' and a full beard, I wouldn't limit your choices.

Woah :O where did this come from? o_O

I'm not trying to limit anyone's choices. By all means, if they would want to add that option, let them. Certainly not going to petition against it or anything. As you said, it's just my personal opinion. In particular because of the stereotyping (or whatever we may call it) in anime. The so called "norm" and the abundance of young characters is exactly why people don't even pay that much attention to other youthful looking female characters, whereas a female character of a childlike physique with boobs would stand out, to me at least.

Trust me, no issue finding the flattest of the flat chested girls appealing if their character is alluring (actually goes for both genders).

I find it funny how, lately, several people have commented on my avatar, when I myself after 2 years still have no connection to that forum picture. It's like 2 completely different characters to me, forum VS ingame, and I hated my forum pic from day one on the forums :/

My opinion still stands that they'd look weird, but in reality my attitude is what do I care /shrug
Was just voicing an opinion >.<

[Lady]

imo, if you give lala's large breasts, they'll look like snowmen.

[TrystWildkey]

Personally, I would like to have the option available.

I don't necessarily want 'large' breasts, just something to differentiate between male and female Lalafell. Sometimes, it's very difficult to tell!

[Elexia]

Personally, I would like to have the option available.

I don't necessarily want 'large' breasts, just something to differentiate between male and female Lalafell. Sometimes, it's very difficult to tell!

Sometimes, but that's exactly why instead of slapping on boobs, they could do something else they've done in the past (XI), give each race and gender their own animation sets. Even though Tarus were unisex in XI, in XIV they're actually male/female so they could easily give females a different behavioral set.

[Ruethryl]

Personally, I would like to have the option available.

I don't necessarily want 'large' breasts, just something to differentiate between male and female Lalafell. Sometimes, it's very difficult to tell!

I can agree with that.. had someone I thought was a male lalafel from the name on my friend list and such for months that I never examined.. only to be shocked towards the end of 1.0 when I did

[Colino]

imo, if you give lala's large breasts, they'll look like snowmen.

No one said they want lala's to have large breasts. Most would just be content with any breasts at all.

[Kinseykinz]

Sometimes, but that's exactly why instead of slapping on boobs, they could do something else they've done in the past (XI), give each race and gender their own animation sets. Even though Tarus were unisex in XI, in XIV they're actually male/female so they could easily give females a different behavioral set.

We DO have different emotes already between male and female lala's. Also, Tarus were NOT unisex in FFXI. There were boys and girls and they had different characteristics. Galkas and Mithra's were the only 'gender-limited' character options available. The fact that people STILL believe that taru-tarus were unisex kinda supports the lady-lala's wish for small, modest chest enhancements.


@ Nuinn... fair enough, it's just that many people who are of your opinion make it sound as though it will affect them personally in game and that it shouldn't be even considered due to their personal preferences. This has been an on-going discussion since the 'chest enhancements' have been announced. (not this exact forum thread)

[Lady]

-_-
Breasts ≠ femininity

Way to promote the idea that women who have little to no chest need some sort of augmentation to become female....

[TrystWildkey]

-_-
Breasts ≠ femininity

Way to promote the idea that women who have little to no chest need some sort of augmentation to become female....

I can understand your point, and mostly agree with you. For me, the differentiation is due to the fact that some of the males look female due to their customization choices

So for me, it's not so much that breasts = femininity, but more that the lack of breasts makes the character's gender instantly recognizable, thus avoiding any embarrassing incorrect pronoun use