This is Alisha Diphda, from the upcoming JRPG Tales of Zestiria. The thing that gets me about this outfit is that the tabard she’s wearing actually looks like it could have some chainmail and padding under it (as in, it’s one of the first female military outfits I’ve seen in a JRPG that’s not skin-tight), but then everything goes out the window for the strange lack of pants and the bizarre armour-garters. Like, she actually has a decent amount of armour on, but then she just… forgot pants…
I’m pretty sure if you had “garter belts” to hold up thigh high boots they’d ridiculously annoying and have a good chance of chafing you. I looked up this character (mostly to confirm if the little crosses meant “medic”) and I”m pretty sure this is yet another outift where “panty flashes” were the top design priority.
This is Alisha Diphda, from the upcoming JRPG Tales of Zestiria. The thing that gets me about this outfit is that the tabard she’s wearing actually looks like it could have some chainmail and padding under it (as in, it’s one of the first female military outfits I’ve seen in a JRPG that’s not skin-tight), but then everything goes out the window for the strange lack of pants and the bizarre armour-garters. Like, she actually has a decent amount of armour on, but then she just… forgot pants…
I’m pretty sure if you had “garter belts” to hold up thigh high boots they’d ridiculously annoying and have a good chance of chafing you. I looked up this character (mostly to confirm if the little crosses meant “medic”) and I”m pretty sure this is yet another outift where “panty flashes” were the top design priority.
I dedicate this reblog to anyone who thinks that we object to women showing some skin by principle… No, wedon’t. Just as we do not think covering everything up is a universal solution to the problem sexist costume designs.
The way a character is framed (visually and story-wise) makes a world of difference between just having a questionable costume and being outright objectified.
And as much as bikinis, bathing suits, cheerleader outfits etc. remain a silly wardrobe choice for an on-duty warrior/crimefighter, above here we have small sample of evidence that pants or full-body suits can actually lookworse.
Putting a female hero in pants does not mean she is somehow protected from an artist positioning her primarily for the male gaze. For example, Marvel Comics recently began a new ongoing called Fearless Defenders which stars Valkyrie and Misty Knight. Both of these characters wear pants and, yet, I lost count by about page five of how many times Misty’s ass took center stage in any given panel. Basically, where there’s a male gaze will, there’s a male gaze way — pants or no pants, tights or bared legs.
I dedicate this reblog to anyone who thinks that we object to women showing some skin by principle… No, wedon’t. Just as we do not think covering everything up is a universal solution to the problem sexist costume designs.
The way a character is framed (visually and story-wise) makes a world of difference between just having a questionable costume and being outright objectified.
And as much as bikinis, bathing suits, cheerleader outfits etc. remain a silly wardrobe choice for an on-duty warrior/crimefighter, above here we have small sample of evidence that pants or full-body suits can actually lookworse.
Putting a female hero in pants does not mean she is somehow protected from an artist positioning her primarily for the male gaze. For example, Marvel Comics recently began a new ongoing called Fearless Defenders which stars Valkyrie and Misty Knight. Both of these characters wear pants and, yet, I lost count by about page five of how many times Misty’s ass took center stage in any given panel. Basically, where there’s a male gaze will, there’s a male gaze way — pants or no pants, tights or bared legs.
