Will Final Fantasy XV's Cid be a Lady?

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I'd like to point out that you guys are in your third week of impotent debate about this subject.

We, as Final Fantasy players, are so desensitized to sexually explicit costuming that I doubt anyone on this board actually cares enough about equal representation of the sexes to do anything about this.

Has anyone even tried contacting Square Enix? I hope so, but I doubt it.

The problem with contacting SE is that you have to know japanese. Also, it took them until the success of Bravely Default to realize they had been ignoring an entire section of their consumers.

They are also Japanese. They live in the same country where women need a separate subway due to a groping/blackmail case. And where upskirts and pantyshots are common occurence in media. And where women are ugly after the age of 25.

Also, Japanese developers tend to follow mini-traditions in their developement of games. Ever wondered why Dark Souls 1 and 2 had so many similar themes and events to the old King's Field series? Or why most FF games have giant chickens that came from a long forgotten entry in the series? It's not laziness, they just do what's been done before while adding a small new thing every now and then.

They probably aren't going to take your advice.

Although, next you'll be telling us you walk around everyday looking like this. Because it's appropriate day to day wear, just like Cidney's outfit is what you'd expect a mechanic to be wearing, right?

I never said any of that. But hey, nice espantajo.

Well:

The design is perfectly fine. I've seen women with more cleaveage IRL. Cidney having her mammaries hanging out isn't sexist. All that matters to me is how the character will be written. Hopefully, she'll be a relatively strong willed female character.

Considering the bulk of the discussion in this thread is about how her clothing isn't really appropriate for her role, I guess one could be forgiven for understanding your original post as saying such attire was fine?

My intention in that original post wasn't that her design was fine for the role of a mechanic (it clearly isn't). Just that it was fine overall. I've seen worse, so I didn't react as negatively as you. I also never said it was appropriate day wear. Hence, the espantajo.