What Your Character Says About You [Final Fantasy XIV]



Beyond mere race and clan, Final Fantasy XIV is filled with options to make some of the prettiest (and ugliest) characters in any modern MMO. Here, I go over some of the common stereotypes associated with those choices and with no credentials whatsoever, psychoanalyze what your character says about you!

It’s hardly an exhaustive list, but it doesn’t need to be—98% of us look the exact same, anyway!

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:28 Hyur
1:18 Elezen
1:36 Lalafell
1:52 Miqo’te
2:18 Roegadyn
2:44 Au Ra
3:04 Hrothgar
3:25 Viera
3:40 Customization Choices
3:49 Height
3:57 “The Zoom Test”
4:30 “The Royal Eye of Raiding”
4:51 Hair
5:32 Face Paints
6:02 Outro

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44 thoughts on “What Your Character Says About You [Final Fantasy XIV]”

  1. as someone who only got really into FFXIV the second time they tried it because they just really really wanted to play a rabbit femboy, i have never felt so called out by my choices in face paint

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  2. maybe if i switch to lalafell whisker min height my static will see me as the super tall gigachad mechanics master i know i am and they wont kick me for constantly griefing every week

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  3. great video! I chose a very small female lalafell because I thought it would be funny to see a silly cute face in the very serious and dramatic cutscenes, despite my general preference to play male characters as a Brotherly Love enthusiast. I regret not choosing a male viera that should be both fashionable and give me double meaning to many many scenes.

    It sometimes suck to be too smol, you can't barely see your culinarian super cute little oven. When in housing, the cottage looks pretty much like a mansion. It's also harder to play overall, I guess, if you suck like me, lol ('im in the bad lala group demographics).

    BUT, after so many hours playing my adorable lalafell, I can't see the character with a different face and stature.

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  4. Hetrochromatic, shortest stack, make it rain hair styled, female miqote sun seaker, two toned hair both shades of reddish to give a tapered look to hair styles (iirc bit brighter as it goes to the tips)

    Not tall IRL, otherwise kinda fits for me.

    Also legacy player, never fantasia'd though NEARLY went female aura when HW dropped. Only thing that has changed on my character since is occationaly hair highlight color (slight diffrent shades) and hairstyle/things the aethetician can change.

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  5. Great video, really funny and quite accurate from my experience.

    I like to be an exception though: I'm a very tall dude, I played the free trial til lvl 30 as a catgirl then bought the game and restarted as a max height Female Viera with white hair and heterochromia and never went back, almost 2000 hours on this one character so far, she's my main.
    I do have a few alts that I play on because hats are really nice and RP is fun (some alts are a min height lala, a max height fem roe, min height female Au Ra, and a couple others).

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  6. Lala player, I will acknowledge that once you go short, there is no boundary of gender nor clan. All Lalas are we of the small. Though I’m not a high tier raider so I hope to god I’m mid rather than a bumbler who can’t clear anything.

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  7. My character is a Mi'qote seeker of the moon with ashen grey skin, and short white hair with black highlights.
    There was no deeper thought behind it, I just thought the combo looked good.
    She also has blue/green heterochromatic eyes.
    My own eyes look like they're both blue/green, in a pattern not dissimilar from Limbal Rings.
    She's never been fanta'd, but after several years, I did have had Vaindelyne make the highlights even darker, add a few freckles, and pick a slightly different but still short hairstyle
    The idea there was to make it look like she's changed and matured a bit over the whole saga from ARR to EW.

    IMO, the perfect callout for players like me is that we basically made our ideal girlfriend.

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  8. "Viera usually don't stay viera" speak for yourself, you can pry my bunny from my cold dead hands. I love playing as a pretty boy twink because it's the closest to my irl self

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  9. I picked female Hyur because I didn’t want my character being too cutesy, if that makes sense? It’s a shame the only cool looking female options are on highlander and Roe because I also don’t want my character looking too tough. Ugh, the Goldilocks dilemma.

    But now I’m contemplating changing to cat girl because I feel so left out as a Hyur. xD

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  10. You missed 1 thing with lalafells, its either max height that towers over all other lalas or min height that gets lost beneath hrothgars, anything between 10 and 95 on the slider is unused except for like 3 people including me.

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