@HaruEb would it surprise you that although I'm trans I have never played any Final Fantasy game nor really know much about it. I worked in conservative church organisations for most of my life until I was almost 37. Eek.
alt-text: 2 panel meme, Panel 1: "1st Owner" A stock image of an office worker, grinning in front of a laptop running Windows XP
Panel 2: "current owner" the laptop has been plastered with Linux/FOSS stickers, the display is now projected on a wall, running Arch Linux. There is a trans flag. The user is wearing pink and blue thigh highs and is using a mechanical keyboard with blue and pink keycaps
It's midnight, and I was gonna go to bed at midnight, but I'm wired as hell, so I guess I might as well check out the introduction to my Schizophrenia course...
If you're not sure if something is "cultural appropriation" or not, do the work to find out. Find voices from within the culture you are inspired by and listen to them. You won't get a straightforward "yes" or "no", and you need to be prepared for that. It's ok to make mistakes, as long as you own up to them when they are pointed out and do your best to mitigate any harm you may have caused.
As an addendum to this, particularly for white people, please, please put in the work to learn about the history of white supremacy and colonialism and how colonialist attitudes persist to this day. We are all inculcated systemically by these things all the time, and it can be very challenging to break out of them.
But the rewards for doing so, if and when you have the capacity to do so, are immeasurable.