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So, have you people heard about Shovel Knight? There’s this character named Shield Knight and seems people are getting quite a surprise when they find out Shield Knight is a woman. The whole non-sexualized. full body armor with only the face exposed may have confused them. The game doesn’t tell you she was a lover or friend, only that Shield Knight was Shovel Knight’s adventuring companion.

When I first read this ask, I kicked myself because I saw this game for sale on Steam and didn’t even think about buying it because well…

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So I decided to look into it and specifically who was Shield Knight?

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G L O R I O U S !

This is how you female armor!

The first few articles I found were mostly written before much was known other than she was going to be in the game.  But according to the original Kickstarter:

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So while it appears that Shield Knight does have an awesome outfit on par with Shovel Knight’s… being female means she still must exist primarily as a “beloved” damsel to be rescued by the hero.

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– wincenworks

I’m really puzzled how would someone confuse Shield Knight for a man.
Her design is an A+ example of how to make armor look feminine without compromising its protective purpose.

Still, seems like the game makers’ idea was “as long as we make the damsel in distress character wear appropriate warrior gear instead of princess gown then we get our feminist cookie!”… I don’t have enough palms to facepalm accordingly.

~Ozzie

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eldritchgender:

i am actually So Angry at the forum topic about female armor being “too concealing” lmfao

women don’t exist for you to ogle even in video games! shut the fuck up! 🙂

So… against my better judgement I went looking and I found this thread. In which the author proposes he’s not satisfied with the many existing options in clothing (even though you can literally just wear the armor on top and tell the game to make it invisible) and nobody understands what he’s asking for.

Probably because what he asks for shifts constantly as he gets more and more negative feedback from people pointing out how absurd his request is.  The two pics on the left are early examples of what he’s asking for, the two pics on the right are modifications to pics of armor he’s done to illustrate what he means.  See if you can spot any differences:

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This is not to propose that he’s an evil mastermind that planned this all along, but rather that ridiculous armor, particularly ridiculously revealing female armor, has become so institutionalized in pop culture that people literally do not see the absurdity of these requests or even consider that maybe the whole premise if flawed.

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So general unhelpfulness of thinking that not on the same level of Tera Online is going to reassure anyone; it’s pretty terrifying that we live a world where people genuinely think all armour should show off skin.

– wincenworks