#the Keepers throw out their men so that they are a matriarchy (because Square cannot imagine a matriarchy with both men and women | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

pensola · 9 days ago

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Gotta love Dawntrail's (and honestly, at times XIV since ShB and beyond) continuing trend that for every silent female miqo'te in the background, they give us three male miqo'te with dialogue.

Either they are truly commited to retconning the miqo'te's gender ratio lore and hope nobody comments on it so they don't have to achknowledge it like they admitted they are too incompetent to make natural curls as hairstyles, or there is something about the Hhetsarro (and Mystels, to be honest) that make them have equal amounts or more male miqo'te than female.

#ffxiv #dawntrail spoilers #dawntrail 7.1 spoilers #miqo'te #it shouldn't annoy me but it does #either commit to the lore you have given or be clear about the retcon so I can stop being low-key annoyed by it!#seriously Dawntrail had a lot - A LOT - of male miqo'te but 7.1 keeps them coming #and I keep wondering "unless there is intentional lore in Hhetsarro culture that keeps women more subdued and men are leaders #but are every single miqo'te with speaking roles men and most of the background miqo'te men here? Would anything change if they were women?#and so on #it's just casual annoyance but still #Lorebook said that Seekers are rarely men yet EVERY tribe we have met have had a male leader (I include G'raha's tribe here since the Eye #was inherited from father to son)#the Keepers throw out their men so that they are a matriarchy (because Square cannot imagine a matriarchy with both men and women #so they copy that lore for the other matriarchial race - the viera)#yet the ONE group of Keepers we meet are a bunch of (criminal) women led by a man.#Come on Square you're able to make female leaders so why is this so different?#anyway small rambling for fun

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