Might be reading a bit too much into it.
In either case I'd say he doesn't look like a man because he isn't a one. He's just a teenager. Tons of teenagers look a bit androgynous.
everything is wrapped in gray
i'm focusing on your image
can you hear me in the void?
Elly is right. This thread is full of awful transphobic language. Saying that male characters look "girly" as if it's a negative aspect for a male to look feminine, saying that Meg Ryan "looks like a man", seeming to have a problem with a same sex couple on the cover of a game. This is all just foul.
This is Final Fantasy, not Resident Evil, all of the main guys are young and pretty and I love it! #CloudSquallTidusVaanAce
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Because he was born Tidette.
Haven't you played any JRPGs before?
They always prefer the slightly effeminate man over the muscly western hero.
Barret, Wakka, Steiner, Basch, Gladiolus are all the stereotypically masculine characters that are peripheral to the more slight and boy-like hero in FF games.
There is a distinct lack of pleasantness in this thread so I think we're done here.