(12-22-2014, 07:07 PM)Aya Wrote: I just wish they'd make the females as bestial as the males, but I know its not something that's going to happen. They like these aesthetics, and its not hard to understand why. I don't really think technical limitations come into play, both WoW and TERA have dealt with non-humanoid shapes (with differing levels of grace), and FF could have found a way if that is what they had wanted to do. But they want to make the Miqo'te version of dragon-people, and that's their prerogativePerhaps we are all looking at this wrong...
I'll roll my eyes at it still, because, of course they would make an unbelievably dainty feminine model, and a hyper masculine model, of course!
They have done a nice job of making some highly muscled feminine characters in the game, at least, so I have to give them their due for that! Something other games (*cough* TERA *cough*) utterly fail at providing. [Then I remembered the Amani, but I'm going to keep this as I wrote it originally ^^]
It was mentioned by a first time poster who I will look up and Rep here in as second that they look almost demonic.
I am inclined to agree. To me neither of the genders look bestial in comparison to Charr and Aman. HOWEVER, they do look demonic... and if you note the horn direction on the succubus from Haukke manor... it matches the female horns of Au Ra. Perhaps we are off on the origin... They also share the frighteningly haunting look.
(I am aware they Succubus in the dungeon has ears and the horns don't replace them, but they have an eerie similarity.)