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What exactly is the female mime? She looks like a cat or something...

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As far as I can figure, the female has a fabric mask cut into the shape of a cattish/bunnyish creature. The turtleneck covers up the part where the mask would most likely end, and you can see the stitching up the sides.

Female mimes aren't cats, if that's what you're asking.

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of course is a mask, but I see more like a fox mask than other thing, mimes tend to cover her/his face but they don`t morph into other creatures...or yes? ^_^

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Maybe it's just to give off a bit of neutrality to go along with the functions. I know I can't associate the mask with any other class in the game.

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It's gonna be a glorious day
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IIRC, in japanese folklore, trixter spirits assumed the shape of foxes or something like that. In many cultures, foxes are associated with playing tricks on others or being unusually resourceful. There's probably a link here, but I'm wiped out and too tired to put A and B together. Should be obvious anyways.

Also, in theater, people often wear white masks frozen into some kind of expression. Given the mime's nature, it makes sense they'd follow such a fashionable trend as that.

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I think it's supposed to be a Tanuki.

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Tanuki

A mammal of the Canidae family, the tanuki resembles the racoon in its facial features. The tanuki is considered to have supernatural abilities but, unlike the fox (Kitsune), it is seen as amusing. Large ceramic statues of tanuki wearing a straw hat and holding a gourd bottle are sometimes displayed outside shops as decorations. Stories often say that tanuki have the ability to change their shape, and often disguise themselves as humans.

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It could also be a kitsune, the fox spirits of Japanese mythology as well (like the passage above says).
I'm thinking it's prolly a Tanuki though.

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A little off-topic here but not by much, is the male-mime some kind of bird? (if you look at his picture on the avatars here it appears to be the head of a bird backwards) and if so, is it some kind of special one from japanese mythology or something lol, (a tanuki sounds sacred or something )


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Peace sells... but Whos buyin? -Megadeth


You wont be saying that when you get a
lead pipe across the head -James (Darkness Illusions II)

The female mime is a fox (probably a kitsune), the male mime is a bird (i'm guessing a raven, but it looks more like a tucan).

Both foxes and ravens are known as trickster spirits in certain mythologies, capable of shapeshifting, or "mimicking" other creatures.



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And behold, I saw a Pale Gaming System, and the name of he who rode it was Squaresoft, and Enix followed him.

OMG. The Tanuki suit. Flash memory. Super Mario Bothers 3.

Anyway, I think the tendency of mimics in general is to cover their faces as best possible (Gogo).

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