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Your entire race should not fill me with FEMINIST RAGE.
So I got to Eruyt Village, and we're about to go looking for Mjrn.
I'm sorry. I still don't like the viera.
If there was some - variation, I don't know, if they weren't all basically the same nubile, lovely rabbitgirl with exotic dark skin! and silver hair!, and if they didn't all friggin' wear stiletto heels to keep their balance (hint to designer: if you have designed a race where individuals cannot support their own body weight without artificial aids, you did it wrong), maybe I wouldn't hate them so much. As it was, I was going through Eruyt and thinking "What a beautiful village, and such interesting concepts, so utterly wasted on a village full of thinly-veiled sex objects!"
I possibly found the "ew, humes" attitude even more annoying because of this than I might otherwise have. You're some guy's bunnygirl fantasy, where do you get off sticking your nose up at humes? At least I don't need shoes to stand up, bitch.
Honestly, I - I can't really look at any aspect of the viera and think of them as anything other than some guy in Squenix getting off on bunnygirls. Their feet somehow evolved against all possible logic into forms where they need high heels for balance, sexy! They're a secluded race that live in and with the forest, but they have exquisitely manufacted clothes with metal and stuff, sexy! They're aloof and unattainable, it's even against their laws for you to be here, but oh, they won't kick you out; just feel free to wander around their village and admire the view, big boy, even if you are a dirty hume, teehee. Sexy!
I can't even get behind Fran, even now. Oh, so you're the rogue from the xenophobic race who protests This Need Not Be The Only Way, and now you're sad because your race hates you. Yeah, um. Sorry, I think I've seen this plot before, and it was a lot more interesting when it wasn't acted out by bunnygirl fetishes. And she still doesn't seem to me to have a personality outside of "I'm a viera!" ... actually, come to think of it, I feel like I could say that about every viera in that village...
I just. Nnnnngh. Ivalice is such a deeply interesting, well-built world, with fascinating politics and creatures and everything. And then there's the viera.
I'm sorry. I still don't like the viera.
If there was some - variation, I don't know, if they weren't all basically the same nubile, lovely rabbitgirl with exotic dark skin! and silver hair!, and if they didn't all friggin' wear stiletto heels to keep their balance (hint to designer: if you have designed a race where individuals cannot support their own body weight without artificial aids, you did it wrong), maybe I wouldn't hate them so much. As it was, I was going through Eruyt and thinking "What a beautiful village, and such interesting concepts, so utterly wasted on a village full of thinly-veiled sex objects!"
I possibly found the "ew, humes" attitude even more annoying because of this than I might otherwise have. You're some guy's bunnygirl fantasy, where do you get off sticking your nose up at humes? At least I don't need shoes to stand up, bitch.
Honestly, I - I can't really look at any aspect of the viera and think of them as anything other than some guy in Squenix getting off on bunnygirls. Their feet somehow evolved against all possible logic into forms where they need high heels for balance, sexy! They're a secluded race that live in and with the forest, but they have exquisitely manufacted clothes with metal and stuff, sexy! They're aloof and unattainable, it's even against their laws for you to be here, but oh, they won't kick you out; just feel free to wander around their village and admire the view, big boy, even if you are a dirty hume, teehee. Sexy!
I can't even get behind Fran, even now. Oh, so you're the rogue from the xenophobic race who protests This Need Not Be The Only Way, and now you're sad because your race hates you. Yeah, um. Sorry, I think I've seen this plot before, and it was a lot more interesting when it wasn't acted out by bunnygirl fetishes. And she still doesn't seem to me to have a personality outside of "I'm a viera!" ... actually, come to think of it, I feel like I could say that about every viera in that village...
I just. Nnnnngh. Ivalice is such a deeply interesting, well-built world, with fascinating politics and creatures and everything. And then there's the viera.