Will Final Fantasy XV's Cid be a Lady?

[CAST VOX]

This google image search has me thinking a few things.

Cidney makes direct eye contact with people. She has close-ups. She is pleasant, but not terribly goofy or silly. She seems kind of cool, like you'd expect a person who shoes horses in a Western setting to be. Or like a blacksmith.

She's holding that wrench up and getting pretty excited about it. She really seems to have a thing for building stuff.

I'd really kind of appreciate it if they made Cidney the most intelligent person in this world. Like, she can fix and build any goddamn thing you could want or ask for.

:/ That would make up for a lot of boobage, I think.

She'll probably be some sort of genius, or at least a great mechanic. They'll probably screw it up by making her a ditz or something.

[chionos]

This google image search has me thinking a few things.

Cidney makes direct eye contact with people. She has close-ups. She is pleasant, but not terribly goofy or silly. She seems kind of cool, like you'd expect a person who shoes horses in a Western setting to be. Or like a blacksmith.

She's holding that wrench up and getting pretty excited about it. She really seems to have a thing for building stuff.

I'd really kind of appreciate it if they made Cidney the most intelligent person in this world. Like, she can fix and build any goddamn thing you could want or ask for.

:/ That would make up for a lot of boobage, I think.

She'll probably be some sort of genius, or at least a great mechanic. They'll probably screw it up by making her a ditz or something.

I hope they don't. I could see her being naive though, kind of like Kaylee from Firefly. Not ditzy, but kind of spacy because she's so obsessed with her machines and such. That would work fine for me.

[CAST VOX]

This google image search has me thinking a few things.

Cidney makes direct eye contact with people. She has close-ups. She is pleasant, but not terribly goofy or silly. She seems kind of cool, like you'd expect a person who shoes horses in a Western setting to be. Or like a blacksmith.

She's holding that wrench up and getting pretty excited about it. She really seems to have a thing for building stuff.

I'd really kind of appreciate it if they made Cidney the most intelligent person in this world. Like, she can fix and build any goddamn thing you could want or ask for.

:/ That would make up for a lot of boobage, I think.

She'll probably be some sort of genius, or at least a great mechanic. They'll probably screw it up by making her a ditz or something.

I hope they don't. I could see her being naive though, kind of like Kaylee from Firefly. Not ditzy, but kind of spacy because she's so obsessed with her machines and such. That would work fine for me.

That would be nice. Characters that are obsessed with one particular thing can actually be very interesting.

But they'll probably just make her Vanille/Rikku with gadgets.

[Spooniest]

I don't get a ditzy vibe from her. She's intent on something, very focused, but not in an overtly hot-blooded way. She is capable of smiling, though. I think the look on her face says, "I'm not impressed with [the object of this imaginary sentence]."

[Loony BoB]

For what it's worth, I think making her occasionally ditzy isn't a problem - look at some of the previous Cids (FFV being the best example) and you'll find they can be bumbling on occasion. The things they generally are first and foremost related to any airships in the game and being competent with machinery. After that I find the characteristics you might think they are associated with probably aren't a complete match to a number of the Cids. Even being competent with machinery isn't something I immediately associate with Cid in VIII or XIII. The Cids really are quite varying.

Personally, from what little we've seen of her, I think she'll be set up just fine. She comes across as a rather quirky, intelligent and capable person, capable of standing up for herself and perhaps even runs her own business. Hard to say for sure though, we'll just have to wait and see.

[Spooniest]

Now, I understand "cheated angles" in camera/acting work. It's to show the front of the person while allowing them to talk to someone standing to their side. It shows up in these screens, too, with her talking to the buff dude in the open shirt.

She's not looking directly at him. She's kind of looking sideways at him, if at all. She might be turning around? But maybe not.

That seems kind of...how do you characterize it...

She seems like she works really hard or something, and stays up late a lot.

Definitely like a FFIV-Cid-esque vibe here. Esp with the goggles.

(let's hope the goggles do something)

Edit: I forgot to mention it, but Cidney's hair looks like she combed it with a balloon.

[Tyson]

This google image search has me thinking a few things.

Cidney makes direct eye contact with people. She has close-ups. She is pleasant, but not terribly goofy or silly. She seems kind of cool, like you'd expect a person who shoes horses in a Western setting to be. Or like a blacksmith.

She's holding that wrench up and getting pretty excited about it. She really seems to have a thing for building stuff.

I'd really kind of appreciate it if they made Cidney the most intelligent person in this world. Like, she can fix and build any goddamn thing you could want or ask for.

:/ That would make up for a lot of boobage, I think.

She'll probably be some sort of genius, or at least a great mechanic. They'll probably screw it up by making her a ditz or something.

I hope they don't. I could see her being naive though, kind of like Kaylee from Firefly. Not ditzy, but kind of spacy because she's so obsessed with her machines and such. That would work fine for me.

That would be nice. Characters that are obsessed with one particular thing can actually be very interesting.

But they'll probably just make her Vanille/Rikku with gadgets.

I'm definitely getting a big Rikku vibe from her. Wouldn't be surprised if they're almost identical. May just be because of the mechanical skills and dress sense tho , haha.

[Spooniest]

I dunno...Rikku wears a lot of pink, and she has the emotional range of a teaspoon.

Cidney seems like she doesn't go in for any of that trout to me. She's got a workbench full of trout to fix, so why are you wasting her time by being a huge dumbass who doesn't even know how to build one electrical circuit, for goodness' sake?

I doubt they'd do this, but it would be interesting if they gave her Cid Highwind's potty mouth and abusive personality. Though obviously, women in Asia are strongly discouraged from smoking. Or so I heard from an Indian (SE Asian) once.

[Ayen]

I don't expect them to change anything, and stated as much in my letter to them. I simply made my disappointment in the outfit known and stated my reasons in the politest and most respectful manner that I could and informed them I won't be buying the game because of it. And before someone even say it, yes, I was one of the few on here that never cared for the game to begin with, but eventually, just like FFXIII, I would have bought the game for review purposes, but not now, and I would feel this way regardless of who the developers were, and what the game was.

[Spooniest]

Beyond sending my own letter, yelling about doing it in this forum and providing the link to the postage calculator, there is little more I can do at this time to promote this.

Really, the only plausible way for this to go is for someone (hopefully with me on board as the scriptwriter lol) to found a videogame company dedicated to hammering on these niches that SE refuses to acknowledge.

It's not a social justice thing, it's a storytelling quality thing. Change up the gender roles, keep people guessing. It's just another trope to play with.

Someone will found this company one day, or may have founded it already.

Their motto would be "Art is the weapon with which bad ideas are destroyed."

[Mirage]

I think perhaps I should write them something as well. Not sure what would be the best place to send it, though.

[Spooniest]

Straight to the Tokyo HQ.

[Mirage]

Do they actually read english letters there?

[Spooniest]

English is offered as early as what would be 8th grade in Japan. Has been for years. It's a prerequisite in their schools for a lot of business courses, I'd wager.

English is the language of business around the world.

[Mirage]

As early as the 8th grade? That's... really late. I never doubted that there were people at the SE headquarters that would understand english, though.

In either case, even if you start in 3rd grade like you do in a lot of other countries, it's not the time spent in english classes in school that makes you good at the language, it's how much you use it after you're done with your classes.