So now that her name is actually Cindy, what are we going to do if/when the real Cid pops up? I've obviously been on the side that her outfit is a little too purposefully sexual for no good/justifiable reason. But the people saying "They changed Cid's gender and immediately sexualized it" will have lost a little momentum

Is this going to be more forgivable if it turns out to not be an incarnation of Cid? I obviously threw my hands up when it was pointed out her outfit was designed by a fashion designer and not just a perverted character artist locked up and deprived(/depraved) at Square HQ, but I think it leaves a little more wiggle-room for the possibility of context

She legitimately could end up being Cid's daughter or niece. Which would mean he's the real deal, and she's probably just some up-start prodigy mechanic who might not have been wearing that while working on stuff. She may have just gotten done taking off her coveralls, or she may have been standing on the sideline helping her uncle/dad and just got some stuff on her face. I still don't completely approve of her outfit as a standard for FF characters, but the situation has at the very least opened up for more reasonable context possibilities. And if any of that turns out to be the case, I'll likely be a lot more lenient on her

But in the end I'd probably swallow it anyway, my biggest problem is not so much that it exists, but that it exists in contrast with everything else. I already said she looks like someone out of Borderlands in that get-up and I don't hate Borderlands. But they established their own style. This game established its own style a long time ago. And then she shows up and just sorta throws things off in all kinds of wrong and weird directions

But the fact alone that they've made her name officially Cindy rather than Cidney gives me pause for thought. But yeah..