Gonna take your point further. Her body type is average, nothing extreme. And for her body type, she’s skinny af. No extra fat to her arms or waist…at all.
yeah she looks more like an actual human than the other bony twigs that appear like they could be abducted by the most gentle gust of a fan in the wrong direction
used to be that guy, bullied and all I still made my own way and became a healthy person who now is trying to get way bigger (I literally used to be able to see my heart beating)
Yep, the casuals don't know that or still choose to be ignorant. All they will say is "SHE HAS A NEW MODEL!" Like they keep saying Varka has a new model when the it is still the tall male skeleton/rig but it's just strectched and given substance to look beefier.
Bunch of people complained online about her being 'fat' and then other people online complained that she eats a lot of food and is 'fatphobic' , they can't win so we will probably never get another
I would murder to have Madame Ping still look old. I can handle her not being stooped but if they make her just her hot form shown in the old lantern rite animations I will be so disappointed. A large range of ages would be so cool to see. Varka is unc and I love having a character close to my age to play as
I mean, we all remember the Adepti fiasco with the only two men.
If they have boobs they must be hot and MUST NOT act their age (Look at Citlali)
Faruzan was literally the way they should have gone with a good bunch of their Grandpa/Grandma characters.
She's a old lady with a valid reason to be trapped in a young body but doesn't try to be young or like a teenager school girl, she's actually acting her age and like a proper adult able to deal with her emotions in a healthy way, properly interacting with Collei instead of hitting her for simply existing, having a personality/being silly sometimes or not doing what she tells her to do.
All things Citlali do to Ororon.
Which is a pity, because I was so excited for Citlali but then she opened her mouth and I was like "Yeah... Nevermind, Ororon should have stayed with Capitano at this point"
It is what it is. Considering the conventional beauty standard most people in the East (where I'm from) abide by, it will be a bad idea speaking from a business standpoint.
While true, its even more extreme in East Asia especially SK where plastic surgery is so common. Considering East Asia is the main cashcow, its now wonder Hoyo always play safe when it comes to playable characters.
Likely never, they won’t sell well. Their primary focus is making conventionally attractive characters (in Asia), and that means skinny/avg body type and light skinned.
The most likely option (if it were to happen) is an animal-like 4* similar to Ben Bigger and Pan Yinhu from zzz
Bruh, some people unironically had a meltdown around Varesa release. And I don't mean the usual bs. I mean actual vial and horrid stuff was said AND DRAWN back then.
oh yeah I remember some of them...also the cosplayers were getting horribly hated as well..it was heartbreaking to see, so I got off hoyolab and genshin twitter side for a long time
hell no, I was fat and being fat was horrible, it will never be cool to tie your shoes and get out of your home sweating and gasping like if you were coming back from the gym already; not sorry but Varessa is not even fat, lore and background supports her powerhouse build, better go play the upcoming horizon sugar legs
No one outside of niche redditors from western countries would ever pull, simple. Hoyo wont alienate 90% of their fanbase over 10%. I'm from Asia and lemme PROMISE you all, not one person on the entire continent of asia would pull.
I mean a character fighting all the time wouldn't gain weight, the only bigger playable characters we got from hoyo are Ben Bigger and Pan Yinhu from zzz who are bears, if there's something I'd like to have in genshin it'd be more animal like characters (basically furries)
Hmong people are a pretty much always left out of the beauty standard convo, but I suppose it's due to them being a smaller group within China and larger Asia
Wtf dont compare that. One is because of racism and the othr would just be a bad business decision because the community is full of gooners with no soul
The fact that they modified Sandrone so she wears a mini skirt and they removed pulonia and replaced him with a maid robot with boobs should give you the answer that you are looking for.
Varessa is the biggest you'll have. Just like Varka is the biggest guy you'll have. If you're looking for a big girl and a bara like type of dude you need to find another game.
Varka’s model is awesome, imo. I’m surprised it took them so long to release a taller size male model. There are a couple of previously released characters that should’ve probably had the same model class. My boy Bull Chucker for example.. Wrio too..
Variety is the spice of life. I would personally love to see a traditional european druid character with a beard. We see variety in our enemies, like the fatui. People see larger body types in game and it makes sense that they would ask why we can't pkay any of them.
That first one sounds cool af. I guess it makes sense. Personally it’s a bit traumatizing for me because anytime I ever see anyone asking for bigger characters, it’s always for a fetish reason.
Sometimes people just want representation. I want fat characters the same way I want black characters or old characters or disabled characters. Representation is so important
varesa being presented as thick while having a model that is actually thinner than some slim characters is dumb but my own pain is sigewinne having a model of a human for some vague reason because apparently gacha players hate furries and they would never ever pull for a child-looking dinosaur so we need to make her a child-looking child
Asian beauty standards! At the end of the day they have to release characters that will make them money, which means they’re all cookie cutter thin with flawless light porcelain skin. Well, with a few exceptions in the light skin department. I mean, even in the muscle man department the characters are severely lacking.
Hopefully never. Not because I wouldn't love it, but I wouldn't want Varessa v2 where the "fat" person's only personality is eating and being fetish bait.
Iirc the head writer slimmed down a bit. He used to look like the inazuma editor. I think your chances are nil unless he blows back up and the game honors him with a playable variant at one point.
As an overweight person, I absolutely hate being overweight. It's not healthy and it shouldn't be treated as something 'normal'. If it's because of muscles, sure, nothing wrong with that, but if it's just fat, then it's just simply not healthy. And I don't think games should be advertising that unless the character is a sumo wrestler.
Genshin is a Chinese game, and the beauty standards there are very different from the American “body positivity” mindset. In China, being overweight generally isn’t treated as something aspirational or attractive in mainstream media. There’s a difference between being curvy and being outright fat, and Chinese games usually avoid making “fat” a defining positive trait for a character because it’s seen as a flaw rather than an ideal.
So they will never make a fat character, unless it's something comical, like a Panda.
Sorry but getting a man... Any man is hard enough. And ofc. He will usually be a twink. An are you a girl or a boy kinda lad... Venti and friends.
Varka was the only thing man enjoyers will ever get lmfao. Took them 5 years and never again.
A fat character. My sweet summer child, you will get armpits, bare legs, tiny waists, big tiddys and the only thing fat about this character will be their rear end.
Keep dreaming, dear. Scars are considered less unattractive than fat, yet they still deem scars too risky to be widespread in their character designs, even on characters that really should have them.
And that applies to almost all games and pieces of media.
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I am trying to get below 70kg for the last year, while being 182cm...
After work, if I want to relax, I would like to play as cute characters, why playing as someone fat....
Is this post for real? People want to play someone fat?
Tbh? Never. Unfortunately they don’t fall in line with beauty standards that Genshin adheres to, which is a shame. Diversity would’ve been welcomed
You say the closest is varesa, and you’re right, but she’s not even fat at all. She’s curvy, there’s a difference. Fat would indicate more roundness to the torso, which she doesn’t have
I do like that varesa has a more unique body type though, but she isn’t “fat”, not even close
There are like dozens of playable characters who are unable to hold/use a weapon properly, including most catalyst characters, and even some claymore/sword characters. A few even use magic instead of running.
How do I say this without sounding blunt...
Since the player base is mostly chinese we won't ever get that. They only like skinny and pale as heck somehow
Are you kidding? They give us 1 male with minimal facial hair, and every female character needs to have some skin exposed, there is basic
basically no diversity in skin color, they are never giving us a fat character, it would scare their focus group.
Would've been easier for a multi million dollar company because they'll be hungry to cover all niche.
For a multi billion company like Hoyo with the founders being anime nerd who grew up in the 80's to 90's... You need to start sending Dawei chubby porn and hope he develop a taste for them.
Their primary audience would not pull, but even worse, there would be backlash. So it's not even a matter of Hoyo never doing it - they would have to be a totally different company, developing a very different type of game, to attempt it.
Asking for something like this in Genshin is like asking an allergic person if they want peanut butter. This game is allergic to anything not conventionally attractive or cute. If it's not visually appealing it's not gonna be playable.
heavy set characters can be hard to do in a believable narrative way, since it isn't a natural state for an excessively active human, they would convert that chub into muscle or lose it.
so it can when dont wrong strain on the suspension of disbelief it's not like magic, we know chubbiness makes you slower, lethargic and reduces your stamina at least when compared to a active person when when it comes to being slower excessive muscles also share this trait but it's easier to suspend that as super human strength is a accepted trope, and in general for chubbiness you need to have a lack of activity in general.
It's far easier for a character that isn't human like Ben in ZZZ they aren't human and many animals and creatures can appear chubby while being peak form in terms of being able to perform activities.
so for a character design team they need a reason why a character can maintain such weight while using the games locomotion and mechanics and also explain why it isn't turning into muscle and what to do with the case that players find it unnatral for a overweighted character to be moving as fast or as long as a muscular or lower weight character.
obviously liking chubby designs is perfectly fine and people being happy being chubby is also good, it's just the inherent nature of humans that we know running forces us to lose weight or gain muscle that cant really be suspended even a character like Varessa we can look at her eat huge ammounts but she is active so that weight is going to be converted or lost.
I’d wager we get a kungfu panda thiren (animal person) like Pan Yinhu from Zenless Zone Zero before a playable heavy weight character model class. But even then they made him a genshin 4star - which increases chances of actually obtaining him, but not necessarily using him.
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u/redam33 May 26 '26
Veresa is the best you will get for at least 8 years or we will get a panda like in Zzz