Drawing Sanaki/Naesala is giving me all the feels, you guys. Though this (and this) fic(s) aren’t hurting either.
Whichever way their relationship rolls, there’s just something reassuring about their solidity in each other, and odd dynamic of trust they’ve got going on. Making friends of enemies like true diplomats and such.
WIP if anyone’s curious: (Might be able to finish this tonight.)
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Was at the beach, so there’s the reason why it’s a few days late. I really need to get going on the backlog. ;orz (Plus the middle panel was just a complete pain in the arse to get completely right, well, all the panels. )
RepComm fans will totally recognize the text. ;D In fact, this whole page (and the next) are kind of like this very subtle middle finger towards Nintendo for making the Begnion occupiers completely worthless villains. You see Jarod murdering civvies left and right, ditto with his henchmen, and while he had potential - there’s just no way he’d remain in control for very long with or without the Dawn Brigade.
It’s called battlefield psychology, and I’m half tempted to demand that every villain read up a book on that and the Art of War. It’d make things so much more fun, for one. ;D
guys.
guys.
It’s not overly picky to expect that kickass women look as capable in redesigns as kickass men do.
It just isn’t, okay?
Just because boobs and legs aren’t in full view doesn’t magically make it any less BS, so stop crying about people not liking it. It’s fine if you like it, but it’s fine that other people don’t, too! We’re not obligated to lap up anything that isn’t inches away from some bad hentai. We shouldn’t be, at least. Sorry, but no.
I’m easy to please. I don’t mind that Roy looks way different, and Ephraim’s kind of clunky, and Marth went the skinnier route rather than having dem arms from FE12. Hell, I even made excuses for Elincia’s nigh-unrecognizable getup.
I just wanted the women I liked to look like themselves and look capable in battle, just like near all the dudes do. And I can’t say a single one of the female redesigns does that. It sucks. It sucks a lot. And I’m not going to apologize for being disappointed.
this this this this. Especially that last paragraph.
They kind of went the right way for some of FE13’s canon outfits, even if they wanted to do something ~*different*~. (Flavia in particular = good job, Nintendo.) So there’s no excuse that Nintendo can’t do a good job. They know what a good design looks like from a shitty design.
And Erika’s is definitely in the latter category.
If you’re going to redesign the entire outfit, it kinda helps that everyone can freaking tell that it’s the same person. We’ve all probably played FE8 at least twice and there is nothing distinguishable from that Erika to this one except maybe the same colored hair.
And like even Reglay said before, the game itself practically condemmed this type of outfit in her support with Forde.
But that’s not the worst part, imo.
The worst part is the implications of the class ‘Bride’. Bride ain’t even a combat/fantasy class. Bride is … well, one half of bride and groom for a freaking wedding. (Meaning, the game all but says she’s tied to a man and that is a no no. There are more subtle and less antagonistic ways of doing that, but this is not it.) I’m seriously crossing my fingers here hoping that NoA will change the translation to something less unfortunate!implicating, but the damage is done.
/minirant
Reblogged from reglay May 31st, 2012 24 notes #honestly if it were not for zihark #I would not buy this game.Ok FE fans, I know it’s a big shock seeing our sword-fighting lady Eirika change into a ‘Bride’ battling in a dress, but calm down for now. It seems stereotypical and impractical but not much has been given in terms of details, so let’s avoid judging harshly for a week until it is released.
From what we know so far, two of its weapon types are bows and staves, so it seems to be a back-row class in contrast to the front-line Demon Fighter, the male-exclusive class that came with Alm’s DLC. I am inferring its third weapon is Lances (even though Eirika used swords) because only women (and their children if inherited) could learn Lance Expert in contrast to the Axe Expert the men could get (one of the Demon Fighter’s weapon types along Swords and Magic). Since the Demon Fighter got the Resistance+10 and Quick Attack (Atk+10 when attacking) skills, this seemingly unfit-for-a-battle dress will most likely be providing some Defensive skills that female classes were deprived from in the past.
I know it doesn’t seem fitting for Eirika, that the class name is Bride and that it’s a puffy dress in the battlefield, but that’s what IS wanted to do for reasons yet unknown. If you want Eirika and don’t like this, you could always just get spotpass Eirika and ignore this, or if you want the exclusive class benefits, get the DLC, reclass Eirika if you want (she would come with the 2 skills, so no need to level up more as Bride) and turn a blind eye at the impracticality for any other female characters you want with a bow/staff/? combination.
that
monstrosity
is not
Erika.
(that is all I will say on the issue.)
Reblogged from nintendo.co.jp May 31st, 2012 22 notes #it SEEMS stereotypical? #uh no #IT IS #BY A REALLY INSULTING DEGREE. #(though I am curious as to who comes with her).I can’t decide if I want to
a) play FE9 (TANITH~! <3)
b) finally finish the laguz!run in FE10
c) try to complete this one damn level in FE4
or
d) finish this Uprising page.
or (e) go to bed but sleep is not an option.
note what every one has in common. xD;
May 30th, 2012 2 notes #aka FIRE EMBLEM #FIRE EMBLEM OR FIRE EMBLEM #krad has no life
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