This whole “I don’t want Yoshi P designing Viera because the Au Ra thing” is the most idiotic shit I think I’ve seen the FFXIV fandom spew from their collective gobs in a while.

YOSHI-P WON’T BE DESIGNING VIERA. THEY ARE ALREADY DESIGNED. THEY WERE DESIGNED IN FF12.

The fucking article everyone is going bonkers literally implies that one of the reasons we haven’t gotten Viera is because they need to redesign & remodel all the shoe models in-game to match their raised heels.

The only thing I think people have to be disappointed about is that they’re likely going to be about a head taller then miqo’te not elezen/roegadyn levels of height*. Going by this concept art of viera here:

(*Though this might be their minimum height, and from what I can tell Viera were only about a head taller then so highlander height).

You do realize when SE was talking about not having the Au Ra like the Roegadyn, or Highlanders it wasn’t that they didn’t want to have more tall women but didn’t want to add in more females with more masculine features, right?

Viera aren’t anything like Highlanders or Roegadyn. They’re FF12′s “sexy bunny girls” for godsakes. SE isn’t going to turn Viera in Au Ra 2. They’re going to look as close as possible to FF12 as SE can make it because the devs know what people want and seriously that concept art up there shows Viera as exactly what they are.

You should be more worried male Viera would look like roes or highlanders then females not looking like they do in FF12. And even then that’s unlikely because there concept art looks very bishounen.