I'm not gonna shit on the meme because it is pretty funny in its own right, and also Charr are good and pretty.
But no.
Have you seen male Hrothgar in game? The hunched over posture looks out of place in the game. It's jank, and it looks jank with every job. Worse, there are a zillion mods and animation replacements out there to correct it that end up looking even more jank because they snap in between hunched and upright as the animations switch in and out. The weird ape lumber does not work, and they should fix it.
If you're gonna give my big cat character a permanent hunch, they better be able to sprint on all fours. That's my line, that's where I'm calling it. If they run on two feet all the time, upright posture all the time. Straight back, upright stance, runner's sprint.
But Lynne, don't you know the charr run on all fours?
YOU'RE RIGHT! And it was cool! (it was also kind of jank, but it was alright).
That's exactly my point!
Don't I want Charr But Better in FFXIV? YOU'RE DAMN RIGHT I DO, COWARDS. LET ME GALLOP ON ALL FOURS THROUGH LIMSA AND CLAW THE FACES OFF MY ENEMIES.
But this is Final Fucking Fantasy so we gotta be proper. If we're gonna be proper, then let's be fully fucking proper. Let my big feline warrior woman stand upright and be graceful and powerful and run like a triathlete. Miss me with that half-ass ape hunch they did with the Hrothgar men, that shit sucks. Give me proper anthro, or let me go feral. No middling bullshit.
I don't even know where I was going with this, but dammit here it is.