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There's a single joke NPC with the World's Most Annoying Speech Impediment and a couple emotes (mostly just the /pose) that play up the "catgirl fetish" thing. Aside from that, their ears do not look like cat ears, their tails are not a trait exclusive to cats, nor are the slit pupils of Seekers, and they certainly don't refer to themselves as cats. That's not to say Squee didn't intend them to be the "catgirl/guy race", because obviously they did (being a Japanese company, they're practically obligated to play to that fetish). However, I think you go too far in trying to claim that their cultural identity revolves around being... cats. They're not cats. They're bipedal humanoids with an extra limb (not unlike monkeys, though it's not as prehensile it seems) and mobile ears set on the tops of their skulls rather than on the sides. And their cultural identity revolves more around their actual culture than it does around some perceived notion of them being sentient cats.
It's extremely presumptuous of you to tell people who don't rp their miqo'te as cats incarnate that they may as well just roleplay hyur. I'd hazard that all of us who roleplay miqo'te chose to do so for very good reason, that those reasons differ for all of us, and that those reasons are more than enough for us to not to want to roleplay as hyur.
Regarding miqo'te evolutionary history - it's much more likely that all of the humanoid races on Eorzea (particularly our playable races) share a common ancestor.Â
Also, humans did not evolve from apes; they share a common ancestor. That is a common misconception that I simply must address!
It's extremely presumptuous of you to tell people who don't rp their miqo'te as cats incarnate that they may as well just roleplay hyur. I'd hazard that all of us who roleplay miqo'te chose to do so for very good reason, that those reasons differ for all of us, and that those reasons are more than enough for us to not to want to roleplay as hyur.
Regarding miqo'te evolutionary history - it's much more likely that all of the humanoid races on Eorzea (particularly our playable races) share a common ancestor.Â
Also, humans did not evolve from apes; they share a common ancestor. That is a common misconception that I simply must address!
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