Well, I think it's important to note that no one has any monopoly on the truth outside of the devs and what they've said. All the formulations of how Seeker miqo'te act that you see on these forums are just different interpretations and extrapolations of the lore, unless those formulations come with a dev post reference attached. 
Sure, the offshoot of the "K" tribe RPers are probably the largest single group of tribal miqo'te characters, and sure, they have their own cultural conceits and concepts, but they don't have any authority over anyone who isn't in their LS. Just because they're large doesn't mean they're right, nor do they represent any sort of "fanon consensus" that other RPers follow or feel that other players must, or should, follow. We're all very laid-back here in practice; there's no illusory high council running around, and you can be sure that I'd be laying into people making such claims of authority at every turn if there were.
So, I guess my larger point is that, because of how Seekers especially work (they have tribes, but those tribes have incalculable numbers of subtribes, built by tia becoming nunhs through territory expansion, and each of those developed culturally with varying degrees of isolation), you have a lot of freedom to do what you want culturally with a miqo'te without worrying that you've stepped on toes -- so long as you stick to what the devs have said and avoid OOC assertions that are, or would have to be, universal.
All that aside, regarding your concept, I'm afraid I'm not familiar with any genetic engineering that's going on in the setting. In my defense, Allagan and Garlean lore aren't my areas of expertise. Before I could comment on whether that'd be plausible or not, I guess I'd have to read some lore references about it. All I personally know is that the Allagan Empire had obscenely advanced magitek, which suggests that such a technology could be possible. My initial uninformed impression is that you could do it so long as you kept it some random side project of the Empire, which is my usual fallback response to ideas that seem plausible but have no direct lore support.
Sure, the offshoot of the "K" tribe RPers are probably the largest single group of tribal miqo'te characters, and sure, they have their own cultural conceits and concepts, but they don't have any authority over anyone who isn't in their LS. Just because they're large doesn't mean they're right, nor do they represent any sort of "fanon consensus" that other RPers follow or feel that other players must, or should, follow. We're all very laid-back here in practice; there's no illusory high council running around, and you can be sure that I'd be laying into people making such claims of authority at every turn if there were.
So, I guess my larger point is that, because of how Seekers especially work (they have tribes, but those tribes have incalculable numbers of subtribes, built by tia becoming nunhs through territory expansion, and each of those developed culturally with varying degrees of isolation), you have a lot of freedom to do what you want culturally with a miqo'te without worrying that you've stepped on toes -- so long as you stick to what the devs have said and avoid OOC assertions that are, or would have to be, universal.
All that aside, regarding your concept, I'm afraid I'm not familiar with any genetic engineering that's going on in the setting. In my defense, Allagan and Garlean lore aren't my areas of expertise.
Before I could comment on whether that'd be plausible or not, I guess I'd have to read some lore references about it. All I personally know is that the Allagan Empire had obscenely advanced magitek, which suggests that such a technology could be possible. My initial uninformed impression is that you could do it so long as you kept it some random side project of the Empire, which is my usual fallback response to ideas that seem plausible but have no direct lore support.
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