ridingthewavesofstorms submitted:  

From Xenoblade Chronicles 2 the character Tsuki, sadly designed by a woman: Risa Ebata. (Source.)

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Judging by that last picture… is she related to Haydee

Seriously though, a couple readers let us know about problems with female designs in Xenoblade Chronicles 2, especially this character, Dahlia/Tsuki. 
And in all frankness, what i saw of her already made me legitimately fear doing any further research. 

Her feet alone make me feel like retracting all the things I said about Fran’s stupid, stupid “I totally need high heels because bunny-person” feet… things I still stand by!

I recommend filtering the experience by reading this Dorkly article, which quotes quite a few good jokes and/or comments about the game’s problems with women characters.

~Ozzie

She has rabbit high heels??

-Icy

I’ve seen a few members of a key demographic claiming the image is PhotoShopped… strangely none of them can provide an image that disproves it… just other terrible images of her in different poses.

– wincenworks

aleph-ozone submitted (and Icy Bingo’ed):

She doesnt really wear armor, but i wanted to show this to you anyway: Final Fantasy’s embodiment of entropy, the Cloud of Darkness. She’s supposed to be a god-level creature of destruction, who for no reason looks like a human being.

For no reason indeed! Yikesaroonie. From the wiki:

Though the Cloud of Darkness universally takes on a feminine form, it is officially considered a genderless being that merely chooses to appear as such.

(And yes, the entire wiki page uses “it” to refer to this being.) I guess an almost-naked woman dressed in unexplainable blobs of coverings is scarier than just an evil cloud or something, especially when their original appearance in Final Fantasy III looked like this:

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This was the final boss, by the by. Much scare.

-Icy 

Hey, but it’s aaall okaaay, because they are a powerful genderless being who only chooses to look like a generically sexy woman in absurdly impossible “clothing”! Their appearance doesn’t have to make sense as long as they possess magic and will to be like that. 

Yup. Makes total sense to me. Don’t look at that nosebleed I’m getting from cognitive dissonance brain strain! Just accept that this is what a sentient evil cloud of entropy would look like, okay?! *passes out*

~Ozzie

federsteinmask:

radiocga:

DAKIYOSETE HOSHII

TASHIKAMETE HOSHII

***THE SHOES***

***HIGH HEELS OF DEATH***

sorry for the screaming but im just in love with his pose and shoes @bikiniarmorbattledamage

After many far less subtle empowered Reaper redesigns we featured, it’s time for one that sexyfies him just with addition of high heels and posing. 

Amazing how little must be changed to completely reverse the framing of the character – almost as if half-nakedness wasn’t the main factor in the lusty gaze design, huh… >_> 

I really love those flowing lines. Thank you for drawing this, @radiocga!

~Ozzie

federsteinmask:

radiocga:

DAKIYOSETE HOSHII

TASHIKAMETE HOSHII

***THE SHOES***

***HIGH HEELS OF DEATH***

sorry for the screaming but im just in love with his pose and shoes @bikiniarmorbattledamage

After many far less subtle empowered Reaper redesigns we featured, it’s time for one that sexyfies him just with addition of high heels and posing. 

Amazing how little must be changed to completely reverse the framing of the character – almost as if half-nakedness wasn’t the main factor in the lusty gaze design, huh… >_> 

I really love those flowing lines. Thank you for drawing this, @radiocga!

~Ozzie