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Character Decision: Miqo'te vs. Hyur


Which race/appearance do you think I should go with?  

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  1. 1. Which race/appearance do you think I should go with?

    • Hyur
      24
    • Miqo'te
      18


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My room mate has the Garlond goggles on his Lalafell with the shaved head, makes him look like a mini Riddick.

 

ha.. I wish they gave had a grumpy face option for the Lalafell - wanted to make a curmudgeonly white mage who would likely give someone a smack on the back of the head with his staff for being reckless after healing them of course.

 

And my vote tied it up at 17.

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I'm sure he's an adorable mini-ridick.

 

You shouldn't resist the Lalaification! You could make all the young women go 'dawwww!' just by entering a room! And you could be named something awesome like Ashren Snowen, or Ashashren Snosnoren.

 

Okay, maybe not that last one.

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I voted Hyur. I like the design you picked out for him more as a Hyur than the one picked as a Miqo'. There are tons of Miqo's obviously (and I'm not saying that you shouldn't roll one for that reason), and a lot of us look the same. In Phase 3 I think I encountered maybe 2 or 3 Hyur males, and uncountable Miqo'tes. For that reason it's harder to stick out as a Miqo--if sticking out is what you're going for.

 

[Warning: My unpopular point of view follows. Please skip if tempted to hijack the thread with another Miqo'te-related argument.]

 

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[End opinionated opinions.]

 

But all that aside, do what you think you'll enjoy most. What fits the character you have planned? What do you find more pleasing to play? At the end of the day, it's not really about pleasing other people--just yourself. I actually would recommend making a list of pros and cons for both and weighing your options if it's still a difficult decision.

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The character idea I have could easily work for either Hyur or Miqo'te, so I would only need to change a few details to fit if I decided to go with a Hyur. As a Miqo'te he was refused a tribal name because of his appearance and his tribe trying to put as much distance between him and them as they could, he was eventually abandoned and then adopted which is where the name Ashren came from. Snow isn't his actual last name, but a nickname of sorts and could be used interchangeably with Ashren.

 

The issue of course that I'm having is I really like both looks, but I'm the type of person that hates having alts because I prefer to just do as much possible on one character, and expand my main in RP with more connections and more meaningful RP, so I'd rather pick one or the other than use both as a main and alt. Ashren is supposed to be severely pale (he's a albino in fact) and severely scarred, though none of the Miqo'te faces really have a lot of scars, the Hyur one did however. Neither one of them can really be... albino pale, so neither one of them really wins as far as that goes, but one thing I did notice was that the Hyur eye coloring works better for him being partially blind in one eye, for the Miqo'te it just looks like he has mismatched eye colors.

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So I find myself leaning a tiny bit more towards the Hyur because he really does seem to stand out a bit more as a unique looking character. Sadly this has a lot to do with the fact that Hyur have way more customization options than the Miqo'te do. For one they have a lot more face choices than the Miqo'te do, and each category (jaw, eyes, nose, etc) seems to vary a great deal more in appearance than the options for the Miqo'te, meaning that each Miqo'te face will only barely deviate from each other no matter how to customize it, while the Hyur faces tend to change quite a bit.

 

Still I do love my Miqo'te build, he has a very rough and gritty appearance that is not common for most of the Miqo'te I have seen, something that could definitely make him stand out a bit more. In either case I took a few more screenshots I'd like to share for any who is willing to give me some more input to help decide which of these two I'll end up using at launch.

 

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lol! I love how this has become as big as it has. It's hilarious that we all agree that they both look great!

 

And humm. I still think the Miqo'te looks more battle-weary and such but the Hyur is definitely a hottie.

 

You could always make him a Were-Miqo'te and have him shift between the two!...

 

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No?

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lol! I love how this has become as big as it has.

I'm actually surprised this thread has gotten so much feedback, and I'm incredibly appreciative of all the votes and comments everyone has given. It's been pretty instrumental so far in helping me decide which one I want to use, though I'm still undecided. I'm definitely leaning a bit more towards the Hyur at the moment but my issue is that, as mentioned the Hyur looks a bit more world weary and battle hardened while the Hyur just has the scarred up look I was going for.

 

Ultimately I may have to wait until I can actually get into the real character creator where I can see both appearances in the Black Mage AF before I make my final decision.

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Pft! It's just because you made an anime pretty boy! *shakes walking stick dismissively*

 

I still think the Miqo'te has more personality. It's the beard, I tell you. Sure, Miqo'te may be overpopulated these days, but you can't argue with the appeal of BEARDS.

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Pft! It's just because you made an anime pretty boy! *shakes walking stick dismissively*

 

I still think the Miqo'te has more personality. It's the beard, I tell you. Sure, Miqo'te may be overpopulated these days, but you can't argue with the appeal of BEARDS.

Personally, as a person with a many chin curtain I can't disagree with this statement.

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Oh come on Ashren we all know your hyur is a Jareth wannabee!:P

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LOL Ohmygod I didn't want to say anything before but I thought of the SAME THING!

 

Sorry Ashren, now I have to jump in on this :love:fabulous David Bowie train!:love:

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I've been reading through some of the replies that were posted when I was asleep, and I do agree with Ashren's statement about the eye colors being more representative of an albino. I'm sure this has been brought up, and I know that cataracts have a blue tint, but you could also just use a white eye for the blind one. I also think that the scar crossing the Miqo'te's facial markings looks just a bit odd.

 

Either could work for his backstory, although I can't say if a Hyur would be more accepting of their son being albino in Eorzea. It would have to depend on the background and opinions of his birth parents--you could write them off as superstitious or closed-minded, which I assume is what you'll do.

 

For "Albino" pale, you might have better luck making him a Keeper, as they get grayish or paler skin colors--Kevaraan is a Keeper for this reason, because I wanted to make him as pale as possible. It's less noticeable in my avatar. 

 

The only races that do that sort of paleness very well are Sea Wolf Roegadyn (where you can make an albino, they can literally be bone-white) and Duskwight, which would be a less close sort of second. However, those body types would be a lot different from the way Ashren is now--Midlanders and Miqo'te of both clans have similar heights and such--and you'd also have to redo the backstory.

 

He'd look really cool with that hair though--almost reminds me of a game I may have seen a similar style in; can't remember which.

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Well, not knowing the backstory, and going purely by appearance, I had to toss my vote in for Miqo'te.

 

Now, normally I would agree with Aysun, that players as midlanders are a bit rare, but... the miqo'te seems to have more personality. The hyuran seems almost half asleep there, whereas the miqo'te has sort of a roguish air. Prolly the beard.

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One of the other things I'm considering is Ashren is supposed to sort of have a gambling addiction, and he's kind of a mad scientist (Thaumaturge + Alchemist) so I'm wondering just how well those things would translate as a Miqo'te vs. a Hyur, for some reason they seem like they might be more something a Hyur would deal with, especially the gambling bit.

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One of the other things I'm considering is Ashren is supposed to sort of have a gambling addiction, and he's kind of a mad scientist (Thaumaturge + Alchemist) so I'm wondering just how well those things would translate as a Miqo'te vs. a Hyur, for some reason they seem like they might be more something a Hyur would deal with, especially the gambling bit.

 

I don't know if a gambling addiction would be distinctly Hyur or Miqo'te myself, but the mad scientist part definitely feels more Hyur. xD

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