The White Mage Mystery

[Starboard Regulator FlareNUKE]

Which official art was this? The artwork Amano did never really showed any white mages, just some generic looking fantasy characters. If you look at the class change, WW just looks like a guy with long hair. Also, the WM sprite in FFIII was EXACTLY THE SAME as FFI's. If there were any differences, they were extremely minor. If you're thinking about the Shaman, that's just a WM sprite with cat ears, there weren't any real facial differences. The real case for WM being a guy is that if you look back at the whole FF series, can you think of ONE female character who didn't have an EXTREMELY revealing outfit?

[Cecinda]

The white mage of FF1 looks meaner. Cos it has a hammer and the FF3 one only has a crappy cane

[Dignified Pauper]

Everyone knows it's a man. Women just weren't cut out for battling monsters in the late 80's.

[Light Mage]

A female White Mage would look like Elvira, only white. (Naturally.)

[childroland]

The white mage is a dude.
Have you seen his class change?
I originally thought he was a she to.
Seriously look at his class change.

[Starboard Regulator FlareNUKE]

Look at Yoshi*taka's artwork, if you don't think that's a chick...then...

[General-Beatrix]

Even though this topic is very dead, did you ever even look at Final Fantasy Tactics white mage portraits.


P.S. It's a girl alright.

[DJZen]

*sigh of great disappointment*

You mean this one?



What about this one?



I don't see how either proves that this is female

[omnitarian]

Well, I s'pose you could make the case that

FF1 White Mage: Hood is up.

FFT White Mage: Males have hood down, girls have hood up. Same thing in FF5.

But I doubt that Square had that much foresight, not to mention that the boys in FF3 wear their hoods up.

Edit: Also, the male FFT white mage has sleeves, whereas the female goes for the poncho look. FF1 White Mage's clothes looks identical to the latter. But again, that really doesn't prove anything.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

Joyeebloo (1:22:06 AM): I still think white mage is a man =X

Kishiruni (1:22:11 AM): You're wrong.

Joyeebloo (1:22:16 AM): prove it xD

Kishiruni (1:23:18 AM): Look at the Chocobo series.
Kishiruni (1:23:31 AM): It has all your FF staples.
Kishiruni (1:23:43 AM): Chocobo, Cid, Behemoth, Black Mage, White Mage, Moguri, etc.

Joyeebloo (1:24:04 AM): there are male white mages, there has to be o_0
Joyeebloo (1:24:05 AM): *thinks*

Kishiruni (1:24:19 AM): No. Listen.
Kishiruni (1:24:38 AM): It's not like a specific White Mage. It's just, "Here's the Final Fantasy White Mage."
Kishiruni (1:24:42 AM): You know, in its pure form.
Kishiruni (1:24:46 AM): And they made it a girl.
Kishiruni (1:24:51 AM): Proof.

Joyeebloo (1:25:00 AM): i see
Joyeebloo (1:25:05 AM): then why isn't there more sexing in ff1 XD

Kishiruni (1:25:17 AM): You have to get the Sex Armor.
Kishiruni (1:25:25 AM): In the Cavern of

After that it became inappropriate.

[Starboard Regulator FlareNUKE]

Look at the Wh.MAGE, that is surely a chick...

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

Irrelevant. Contrary to popular belief, that's not official artwork.

[Jiro]

DoS. press select at character naming. there's your proof. either sex. i'll write the names that they have there. jenica, sarina, elia, sara, sherko, luca, ruby, mikoto, kuku, noah.

[DJZen]

So? They all have male and female names. If anything that just proves something I like to bring up from time to time. Any of the characters could possibly be either gender. If you think that short hair = male, you obviously weren't around much in the 80s.

[Starboard Regulator FlareNUKE]

Irrelevant. Contrary to popular belief, that's not official artwork.

Really? who did it then?