Same thing with science and tech. They're not simply using it as a means to "shortcut" the work.

They're using it as a prosthetic for imagination itself.

proof

i mean just like real life there is in fact a very limited array of character options so looking like someone else is fairly common

it's the details and personality bits that set them and us all apart, and you can't tell that by how someone looks

so there was this and there was that and long story short i still do not have #FFXIV access but I did get to do A Thing, and

welcome to the crew, Shir'Vahshi Takhali, The Oculus Aestus

#femhroth #hrothgal

i accept this gift and offer in return my own cow-pattern boy