tidecullernami submitted (and Icy bingo’ed):
speaking of tharja/rhajat and how they’re being handled in fe:h?? uh…
i’ll leave it to you guys
Thank you, I think. I don’t know what I was expecting from Fire Emblem Heroes, but it was a little better than… whatever this is. I mean, Christmas is the perfect time to wear your fur-lined bikini! A person who grew up in a desert country will totally not freeze her butt off in that!
I don’t know about you guys, but I prefer characters to stay in-character even through holiday events. Especially with a grouchy, anti-social character like Tharja, there’s so much comedy potential! Like, if she was instead forced into a cheap reindeer onesie, so she would just be sulking, trying to hide her shame in the hoodie.
[Pictured: Tharja regretting some life choices]
But of course, that would require that they don’t just use her as a pinup, and we can’t have that.
-Icy
In case you thought Dahlia/Tsuki was the only problematic female character design in Xenoblade Chronicles 2… Here’s the game’s protagonist, Pyra, whose bizarre boobsocks became a meme in their own right!
Last horizontal image found on a forum where people are discussing whether or not her in-game model actually wears thong over those short shorts… Comparing it with concept art, it seems like that’s not the case, but boy does that Tracer-style deep buttcrack and shape of the belt (?) right above it make it look suspiciously a lot like thong.
The only positive surprise about that costume is how flat and wearable the heels of her shoes look! Despite which she still is constantly posed as if she was wearing heels two inch taller.
~Ozzie
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:
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
2goldensnitches submitted (and Ozzie bingo’d):
Loki from Fire Emblem Heroes. I don’t even know how to describe this.
Remember that Fire Emblem costume seemingly designed with random lasso tool movements followed by CTRL + X? Yeah, that’s hers.
Somehow the whole thing is even worse than any individual part of it. And every part is awful. So I figured she might be in a need of a bingo.
Also thanks to other readers who let us know this character’s name.
~Ozzie
Bingo: Soul Saga
Oh Soul Saga, the distilled essence of 90s comic art… made in the early 2000s. An atrocity we featured on BABD before (decidedly not safe for work… or safe for viewing whenever)… I have one word to summarize it: WHY?
Found the first one while looking through art of Aspen’s late creator, Michael Turner, on EscheGirls. Seems like interior artist for issue #2 (second image) agreed with Turner about the boobs & butt pose, then was selective about the costume elements, like the thigh-high boots.
~Ozzie
Oh Soul Saga, the distilled essence of 90s comic art… made in the early 2000s. An atrocity we featured on BABD before (decidedly not safe for work… or safe for viewing whenever)… I have one word to summarize it: WHY?
Found the first one while looking through art of Aspen’s late creator, Michael Turner, on EscheGirls. Seems like interior artist for issue #2 (second image) agreed with Turner about the boobs & butt pose, then was selective about the costume elements, like the thigh-high boots.
~Ozzie