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Bingo: Nowi from Fire Emblem Awakening

FEAnon submitted:

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Nowi is a Manakete(Dragon in human form) from Fire Emblem Awakening. Nowi is a controversial character due to her skimpy outfit combined with her young age as a dragon as she is proportionately 14 at most, though the localization makes Nowi act more mature to downplay the controversy.

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This is made much more controversial due to the player being encouraged to marry Nowi off to other units and have children which if spoofed in this webcomic. While Now is first encountered captured, it is revealed Nowi made the outfit herself and wears it of her free will.

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A Male of the same race and class for comparison.

Anyone up for a bingo?

Bingo you say?

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Now, of course, there’s the argument that I’m sure will be coming about it being her choice, or her being a dragon so she doesn’t need protection, yadda yadda yadda.

Ultimately though, it’s very simple: If the most creative approach someone can take to a character concept such as a dragon in human form and decide it’s a “get out of criticism free card” for a worryingly sexualized teenage girl – then it’s safe to say the fluff was never really a big concern to you.

– wincenworks

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We referenced AutoBattle once before, but didn’t get the opportunity to talk about their super creative

and totally equal

character and costume designs. 

They broke a bingo, so they don’t get a Vegeta gif.

I’m so moved… the void of absolute fantasy genericness and blatant double standards that Spirit Stones left behind is filled at last!

Apparently that bingoed lady elf’s body, particularly the holes in her armor, were used as a backdrop on the game’s site [source]. 

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How classy!

~Ozzie

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Tetsuya Noguchi’s work “Take armor Walkman walk walking round figure” (with commentary)

Japanese artist Tetsuya Noguchi creates many amazing works, including this brilliantly armored kitty cat and adorable owner (who likes his cat so much he added ears to his helmet).

Just think how amazing designs could be if this kind of creativity was encouraged with female Asian character designs instead of generic sexy ninja, weird demon princess/clone ninja, purple hair fetish gear ninja, and – of course – everyone’s favorite: ”tit ninja”

Guys, there’s so much room for amazing creativity if we just drop the toxic masculinity and compulsion to objectify every female character.  Cute yet effective armor should be for everyone, not just pets.

– wincenworks

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(Half-mark on the thong because it appears she has briefs with little windows to simulate the thong look. Just think, someone had to model that… and the mini underboob windows too.)

We’ve had a few people respond to the Nier Automata post with asks and submissions about the foul mouthed, incredibly violent sidekick from the original Nier game: Kaine.  (Trivia: Kaine is one of the very few canon intersex characters in video games, in one version of the game, which adds all kinds of baggage to this outfit and her depiction in general)

For those interested, this is the hero, Nier… both versions of him (It’s complicated and Kaine is dressed the same in both versions):

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For those interested in how this went from being pulp fantasy to a cyberpunk war of androids in couture and VR goggles against alien robots… you can probably guess there is no simple explanation to anything.

Suffice to say though, Yoko Taro’s confession that he just likes putting sexy girls in his games was entirely unsurprising.

– wincenworks