Tag: female armor

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Incidentally I have an issue of ‘La geste des chevaliers dragons’ in my reference pile, because the cityscapes and castles are fantastic, I just thought I should point out that the characters wearing very little armour tend to be savagely eviscerated for their stupidity, not that it isn’t incredibly fan servicy and ridiculous despite that, but at least there are no inexplicably impervious navels.

As Ami of eschergirls and lady-knight- (in her comment) noted, it seems like Ange intended their comic to be subversive of fantasy clichés (so female virgins slay dragons instead of being kidnapped by them), but the execution indulges in harmful narratives (like demonizing women’s sexuality).

I don’t really think that letting scantily-clad warriors die for drama justifies making them scantily-clad in the first place.

It may work in comedy, but La geste des chevaliers dragons (or at least the first issue, the only one I managed to read) never makes fun of those costumes, just assumes we’re supposed to accept them as a sign of female empowerment or some other misogynistic bullshit.

The only character that commented on Jaïna’s non-armor was framed as a sexist dude who’s jealous of dragon slayer’s status, so… yeah, the readers probably weren’t supposed to agree with him.

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repair-her-armor:

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Asi submitted:

Beautiful Female Armour by Dos Santos

I’m not even sure the word ‘beautiful’ does it justice. That’s gorgeous, it really is. Here’s a link to more of Dos Santos’ work, if anyone’s interested.

-Staci

Edit: A reader pointed out that the artist’s name was misspelled (it’s right there in the watermark ^_^’), so I took the liberty of fixing the text.

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Provocative Armour

hiroshimishima:

Because nothing says “cut me down the middle” quite like an exposed V-section going down a person’s torso. /serious

All joking aside, unless you’re one-third golem, or your skin is actually comprised of space titanium, I don’t give a shit how “beautiful” or “sexy” you are. You’ve left yourself wide open to all kinds of frontal (or back) attacks targeting that glistening, supple flesh. This means that while you attract more attention from the rabid fans craving medieval/alien “boobage”, you’re also a huge liability and I’ll have to keep worrying about a very potential casualty when I face archers.. gunners… swordsmen.. fuck, pretty much anything.

Gods, at least carry a personal shielding device or something, just so we know you can take a couple hits before splitting like a freshly hewn log.

That said, if your outfit UNDER the armour looks sexy, I’m not gonna really argue. We’ll only see it when you’re undressing – which I’m sure will be constantly, right? – and that isn’t normally something somebody does in a hostile situation.

Unless you’re Samus Aran, of course.

Words of wisdom.

Some parts bolded by yours truly.

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callofthedeep submitted:

I’m really glad there’s a blog poking fun at this issue in a constructive way. Its something that really grinds my axe. I always try to endeavor to design practical armour for my own characters, its irritating to think that any time I’ve gone down the chainmail bikini route by way of lampooning that ridiculous trend; those images have always proved more popular than those where the armour would actually provide protection, rather than cold nipples and the merest modicum of modesty.

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THANK YOU FOR SUBMITTING! What a badass lady you drew! 😀

I just hope that your chainmail bikini art is popular mostly due to being satirical, not ‘sexy’ 😉