The hilarious front line in the tragic war against ridiculous female armor
Lady knights and their trophies for MoCCA fest
@bikiniarmorbattledamage , just thought you could use a little happiness in your day.
Such amazing illustrations! Beauty, badassery and proper armor for women.
Current link to the original post on the artist’s renamed blog.
~Ozzie
So, as exciting as it is that from time to time, Blizzard makes progress in their newest product: Overwatch – I am still more than a little bit bothered that this is the image of a “hunter” that they put forward on their World of Warcraft site.
The game has been updated that much that people are now trying to run bootleg “original build” servers, and they’ve never gotten some better character art for this class than this.
– wincenworks
(submitted by Jury)
Whoah. The absurd of Tera, the universal example of logic-defying female battle outfits, advertising itself to have “practical armor”… that is skin-tight and boobsock-y on women leaves me astonished.
This armor is so totally practical that even Erik Larsen, the devoted anti-practicality in women’s costumes guy, probably wouldn’t mind it.
Dear Tera’s Creepy Maketing Guy: Just because boobplate and figure-hugging metal cover more than what you usually call “armor”, it doesn’t mean you should label it as “practical”.
~Ozzie
brunhiddensmusings submitted:
Perhaps a kind we should see more of.
Screenshot comes from a surreal indie game, Paradigm.
What I truly love about this image is how the hair, bow, handkerchief and cigarette give this character so much personality that none of the bikini armor bingo tropes do.
Though keep in mind that this knight has a masculine voice and is referred to as “sir” in the game, so they qualify more likely for a quirky challenging-gender-norms example rather than a positive female example.
~Ozzie
Ok, but is their grille in the shape of hearts? I want to befriend this person.
-Icy
nicksuckseggs submitted (and Ozzie bingo’d)
This is the newest addition to High-Rez’s hero fighter, “Paladins” who is one of the more interesting characters on their roster as far as her character goes, but that just makes it so much more disappointing that this is the design they ended up going with. This full screen image was the first thing I was greeted with upon logging in after the latest patch.
My biggest question is how she’s going to find the person who stole the rest of her outfit (and mangled her spine?) with that blindfold on, and hopefully that necklace doesn’t impale itself into her chest while she’s chasing them.
The one positive I find in this creatively sterile design* is the fact that Seris, unlike most Paladins champions, isn’t a direct or indirect ripoff of any Overwatch character.
Though it won’t surprise me if she was heavily influenced by someone from a more fantasy-oriented franchise, like LoL or WoW… or maybe Warmachine [x]:
~Ozzie
*Seriously, this is the top stock illustration for a “blind sorceress” that google proposes.