#cant see the pic TOO well but there’s at least some Very Gothic Shit going on in there

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Also it still makes me Super Sad to know they were at one point considering giving Viera a similar remake to the Mithra and having them be a both genders race with like.. actual normal people and it being the player’s choice if you wanted to wear sexy armour or not. Seriously i hate ‘they are sexy race’ as a concept for a ‘culture’, it’s like finding the planet of everyone has the same job in some star wars thing, except the creepy version...

Tho also these more ‘sexy race’ designs for them still work MILES better than FF12 when they have sexualized dudes too! Apparantly this concept evolved into (ugh) the Au’Ra, so you can kinda see here how they decided to go ‘nah, extra buff power fantasy dudes and even more over the top fanservice women that also look 12′ instead of like.. fanservice kind of muscly man, at least... :( srsly he looks like that sexy armour guy they censored in that spinoff game or that sexy armour they censored for Ringabel yet nobody seemed to care and instead whined about 1 singular additional belt being added on the sexy costume for girls T_T why do the worst of the worst internet douchebros always throw a fit at the slightest bit of equal ass for all??

wow this ended up going into a big ol lol image heavy post so lets have a cut!

also this sexualized lady armour at least has a different and visually interesting design, and they were thinking of more hairstyles too! like the FF12 viera were even more bad for how they all looked like the same person in 1-3 minor variants of the same xenomorph lookin metal thong atrocity. (and like.. one robe model for npcs that somehow managed to still sexualize a robe?? wtf?? leav whit mag alon)

Another beta viera design that just appeals to me a lot, somehow! I think its the interesting idea of having a fully furred head and then just a quiff of human hair on the top, it feels more like an actual animal man instead of a human in cosplay. Same for the idea of them having big black cute button eyes!

Also look at these other really cool designs for different beast races, even stuff thats not based on anything we’ve ever seen before It’s hard to believe that the Au’ra were even conceived as a ‘beast race’ concept, like holy fuck it should be illegal to throw out 47 Actual Designs and just go with Human Again But More Fanservice...

also they made this april fools thing as a fake Au’Ra reveal and like... it doesnt say much good about your designers when this could legit pass as real like the joke here is apaprantly just that Sexy Bangaa looks ugly, not that having a race with a monsterish man and a sexy lady is a dumb idea, cos they just went ahead and did it anyway...

the au’ra concept art shows pretty much EXACTLY the same ‘sexy bangaa’ principle and I’m glad they at least fuckin toned it down to the man having AN ACTUAL HUMAN FACE, even if its also a lazy fuckin design change. i’d be so fuckin mad if we got a legit cool only-nonhumanoid-race-in-the-game and it was men only!

also like Wow, I am actually getting excited about just the same super tiny demure unfitting lady to a massive man except Less Sexualized And More Magical/Ethereal ...unless that isnt meant to be a dragon familiar but actually another design for the men or something, that’d be going WAY too far! XD

Hello Welcome To Bottom Of The Barrel With Bunni, wouldnt it have been nice if the weird succubus-y ladies like.. looked in their 20s or something i am actually advocating for big fanservice titties cos it would be 99% less disturbing than the same damn camera angles on a ‘childish’ design... also seriously 99% normal fanservice lady with bigass actual monster horns on top would be better than same thing sans the horns

oh sorry they do have ‘horns’ but they look like fuckin this

and i fuckin can’t even.. i jsut fuckin... they don’t even let us have THE MOST BASIC TINY BEASTIE THINGS! why does it bug me so much that male au ra get to have black schelera along with the black horns like even this super minimal actual dragon trait isn’t allowed?? even when removing it makes no sense?? even when its supposed to be a nationality indicator in-universe cos you put a really nice amount of worldbuilding into each ‘race’ having actually two races of sun and moon based designs. which are EXACTLY THE FUCKIN SAME FOR FEMALE AU’RA, seriously why not just make horn colour an option in the editor then... actually is this a thing that has ever existed in any real world country, is there a place where men have [visual trait] and women don’t? I mean aside from like.. cultural or religious outfits, where only one gender’s is different to the west but its not like the west is default anyway lol. But seriously imagine EYE COLOUR! Imagine if blue eyes only happened to american men and like.. american women couldn’t have blonde hair and all looked identical to.. I dunno.. west indian women. Just a whole country where dudes have all the abstract concept of ‘race’ and the women don’t. That’s how nonsense it seems when you make a fantasy species where only the women look human!

tho also i’m still pissed off too that the human nationality thing actually comes with a different body build (FOR DUDES AT LEAST) and different hairstyles and starting outfit, instead of only a colour change. it stands out a lot that they only did this for their first attempt at the concept. also it makes male au-ra make even less sense cos you can already have a muscle human and an even more muscle human who has a dumb ogre face and also elf men are muscular somehow and you kinda only have miquote if you wanna be a skinny dude.. or even just an average dude...

also it kinda sucks that you can’t turn off or choose anything about the weirdly complicated scale patterns on their neck and upper arms only. like why is that even there except to be like ‘hey we did the bare minimum to be considered a dragon’...

ALSO LIKE EVEN MORE BOTTOM OF THE BARREL I would have STILL been happier if we got this fuckin terrible fanservice lady design but she at least had ears and claws as well as we-say-its-horns-but-it-looks-like-cute-hair-decs. like seriously throw me a fuckin bone here, give them SOMETHING to justify the ‘beast race’ category... also did i mention that its really fuckin stupid how they did the worldbuilding too? these guys are meant to be nomads and warriors yet the women look like this. its just.. never explained. its just that all the Lore applies to the dudes and the women are just for ~cyooooot anime girl who does the stubborn kiddy pose with her tits hanging out~ (SERIOUSLY THEIR ANIMATION SET IS REALLY CHILDLIKE AND ITS SO CREEPY! theyre like the sex appeal of miquote with the lalafell animations...)

seriously holy shit looking at this pic makes them it look like dads taking their daughters to soccer practise like seriously fuckin christ

and ALSO on top of fuckin everything else we get to see they even had designs for the same creepy loli fanservice ladies but if they had Some Sort Of Actual Unique Features and Cool Aesthetic Choice like wtf you even abanded like 40 cool horn designs and just gave them plain gross triangles in only one of two colour choices... T_T also like.. that loli lady at least gets to wear an actual gothic lolita fashion style, and i love the aesthetic of armor plates hanging as accessories on a non armour outfit. Do they jingle like windchimes? or does this mean Au’ra were meant to be fully scaled below the neck, so this kinda IS a skimpy outfit but you cant tell? XD

Also l kinda like this aesthetic of this other equally lame and super humanoid design with overly sexualized females. Like i dunno if this is just shading but if they actually had this colourscheme it would be super distinctive! And it reminds me of amarant’s trance form, The Amazing Battle Banana Hammock. Even if it also suffers from the same problem of technically showing a man in a skimpy costume but like his design is supposed to be monsterous and badass instead so it still doesnt deliver the same as the female equivelant. The top left version could kinda be a fanservice guy but like.. only if he was naked like that? like drawing someone in a style that’s supermodel body shape and has giant boob outlines and super sexualized poses and doesn’t look monsterous despite being a monster and ET CETERA, that’s what we mean about a character design being sexualized rather than just sexy. If you put some pants to cover this guy’s impressive bulge then he’d just be another scary boss guy. I mean Ifrit is a nearly naked guy with horns in every damn game but he’s very VERY rarely sexualized! The FFXV version is like the first damn time, except when we had a female version of him. It sucks cos ifreeta has a pretty damn cool design but still its really weird how she’s so much more humanoid and has attention drawn to her having boobs in a way they never did with ifrit’s constantly-on-display pecs and loincloth... Man why is it so hard to explain these weird nuances of how people draw ‘topless monster’ characters like this? its like they go out of their way to try and backpedal on the fact they made a topless guy. he can show more skin but its supposed to be less appealing by the artist, thus its less offensive cos it isnt boxing a character into this one sexualized role while the plot says ‘no, they’re a monster, honest!’ YKNOW?? god am i making ANY sense here? XD

nakey man, not meant to be arousing to audience

nakey lady, suddenly just because she’s ‘the lady version’ she looks like this

the same nakey man, redesigned, this time indeed meant to be just as sexy

and like it sucks that there aren’t many good examples of nakey ladies who ARENT meant to be arousing in this series cos I mean that lady ifrit design is so much more sexualized despite being in a chibi art style game for kids?? this was really not the right time or place!

Also it sucks that ‘is nakey’ is a common trait of monster man characters, because well there’s been an established history of dudes being topless and you’re not meant to be aroused. So then whenever they try and make ‘monster man race’ they go for a topless dude and are like ‘then the woman needs to be topless too!’ except the only way they can draw them is sexy??? except its like a false premise to begin with, you can totally make a beast race that isn’t topless, you guys! or even a beast race that isn’t buff, so you don’t need to be all ‘what’s the female equivelant of buff? oh yeah, sexy!’. or, yknow, just draw a buff woman. it could work... or like just have neither and make a beast creature that’s supposed to be cute or mysterious or comical or whatever.

completely random moment of interjection to say that nu mou are pretty neat

Actually, FFTA’s version of the ivalice races was pretty good about this, aside from the dumb thing of ‘theyre all male except viera, and just coincidentally viera are the only humanoid and sexualized race’. (Tho it was funny that somehow they accidentally made all humans male only too??)

Also another reason the Au’ra’s version of fanservice bothers me more than the simple option to wear a bikini as both genders for every other race: like none of them are DESIGNED FROM THE GROUND UP to be ‘they are all biologically born in an idealized supermodel shape and also look twenty years younger than they really are and also all culturally do j-pop poses for fuckin everything’. Even if you picked the sexy catgirls and catboys race you can choose to play a perfectly covered up version of either. And none of their animation sets or voice lines were inherantly fanservicey. Thats kinda what bugs me more than the Au’ra’s designs, its that they’re all ~uguuu senpai~ anime fanservice lady poses and squeaky voices even if you make their design not sexualized in the customizer. Even tho like.. at least a character in full armour doing j-pop poses is kinda funny/cute, so that’s one consolation. But couldnt you have just made them simple emotes for all the characters instead? I WANNA SEE IDOL ROEGADYN OMG :D

ANYWAY UHH BACK ON TOPIC

we almost got a dreadlocks hairstyle? That looks cool

ok.. okay.. I’m done Okay I’m Done sorry i just saw these concept art pics and got really fuckin wistful for what we could have had...

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show Theory

We all love RHPS, we’ve all seen it at least 1000 times and we all think we can do the Time Warp at parties. But there arent too many fan theories out there, and I came up with one many years ago before fan theories were even a popular thing. I thought I’d share it on here and see what people thought. 

We start at the church where Brad and Janet (Branet) are at their friends wedding. Betty and Ralph just got married and we see Janet catch the bouquet while Brad smiles. Now instantly theres something weird. Does Brad just walk round with a ring in his pocket in case his girlfriend catches a brides wedding arrangement? Was it just pure luck that he was going to propose to her on the same day she caught the flowers which were her destiny to be married next? Well, this is where my complicated theory starts. I hope you’re ready. 

At the church we see Frank (A little under dressed from what we’re used to) and Riff and Magenta in the back of the group. Its said the film makers (The god that is Richard O’Brien) wanted it to look like a tribute to American Gothic which shows up later in the movie, but I want to take it further. So many coincidental things happened, what if they weren’t ever coincidence? 

Branet were the chosen ones in this theory, for some reason Frank set his sights on them and wanted them for whatever reason. Through some kind of manipulation or weird power (I mean, they are genius aliens) they could have set it all up. Brad was to have the ring and Janet was to catch the bouquet which would mean they’d get engaged right outside the church. Once in the church, we see a plain looking Magenta and Columbia with Riff, but no Frank. 

It may seem far fetched, but we are talking about Rocky Horror where basically anything is possible, so stay with me. Eddie was some kind of lover of Franks and possibly gave him a lot of information on his uncle, Dr Scott. Its possible it was brought up that just like in a stereotypical scenario back in the days where women only took classes to meet men, that he told them of all the couples which were matched up in his uncles classroom like Branet and Betty and Ralph and they all would visit and thank him once engaged (but no one bothers to invite him to the wedding). To someone like Frank who had sex with anyone who walked through his door, this may have seemed rather fascinating to him. Transylvanians might find this idea to be the complete opposite of their own sexual relationships, and thats why Frank wanted to study the very humans Eddie told him about. 

So while they’re all in the church, Frank goes out to rig the tyre so it will blow at the right time as he knows which route they will be taking to visit their professor. Think about how he reacted when he found out about their flat?

So next up we meet Columbia, she’s fairly open about how she met Frank. He drove up to her in a pick up truck while she was tapping (Is it harder to picture a woman just tap dancing down the street or the glamorous Frank in a pick up?) and says he changed her whole outlook on life in a single stare. We don’t exactly know why Columbia was there other than she was a fan of Franks, she clearly loved him and was attracted by him, but she appeared to be spared compared to Eddie! We know Frank likes attention, but after she seemed to fall for Eddie also, was he really that interested in keeping her around? 

But the point here is we now can picture Frank in 3 different ways. In one he’s the bold lipstick wearing, corset donning, crotch thrusting beauty we all swoon over no matter who we are, then we have the Frank we saw outside of the church where he looks very plain, very ordinary, blending in with the crowd. And now we have him in a pick up truck, presumably looking more like Eddie than anyone else, trying to look a little more rough and bad boy. Did he pick Columbia up to experiment on her? Maybe this was also Eddies doing, he could have told Frank about the women that swooned for him, and Frank wanted to see if he could achieve the same effect by suiting up, remember the leather jacket we see him wear later in the film, perhaps it was his pick up truck look. 

Now we have Eddie, the main reason I believe this night happens the way it does. We don’t know how many humans Frank has lured into his mansion in the past and we don’t know what happened to them (Think of the ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK SIGN, who put it there? Possibly a past experiment who escaped?). Perhaps Frank told Eddie what he had done and it terrified the poor delivery boy who was no unable to escape (There’s an alarm on the building and savage dogs if he even tried) so instead, he accepts his fate. BUT, thats where I believe Eddie sets out to destroy Frank and take him down with him. 

We first meet Eddie when he comes crashing out of the freezer with a dramatic scar on his head and he deliberately riles up the party and pisses off Frank. Now he’s been in that freezer, he knows theres a pic axe in there, he knows his kidnapper is dangerous, surely it would make more sense for him to ride out with that and start attacking? But no, he leaves it in there knowing he’s going to anger Frank (who he already knows is a pretty psychotic person since he stole half of his brain) almost as if he was up to something.

Heres where things get really far fetched (BUT, please keep in mind we are talking about aliens and this movie is supposed to be a sci-fi) So we know that Rocky has half of Eddies brain, we know Rocky was created by Frank in the lab. I’m putting it out there that they were the same person because Rocky had Eddies mind, his thoughts, his knowledge of the past, perhaps thats why he woke up so depressed, because he was a creation by a mad man who had ruined his life. 

Rocky was in the lab and recognized Branet when he woke up, maybe from a photo he’d seen of Eddies uncle, or maybe he just knew that it was Franks plan to get them. So Eddie can see through Rockys eyes and he comes out to disturb the party, knowing Frank will likely lash out on him and Branet can see just how crazy this guy is. Eddie is not only showing them a scar across his head and that hes been locked in a freezer, but he knows Frank will grab the pic and kill him, ultimately showing them just how much danger they are in, because really, who goes out of their way to poke at the person who cut their head open and left them to freeze?. 

This is also done in front of the Transylvanians who may not approve of what he’s done, also possibly a ploy by Eddie to show them what kind of things he’s doing on earth which could expose them. I’ll get to more of that later. 

Also, think how angry Rocky looked when Eddie was indeed murdered, for a few moments he lets it get to him before getting back to being a muscled beauty, what he knows Frank has built him to be.

Now the most important part of the movie to this theory is the letter that Eddie writes to Dr Scott. 

Its easy to look at it and assume he’s simply begging for help, but lets look at this a little closer. Its written in blood, which could be a good old horror movie cliche, or it could be something we’ve missed. If it’s written in blood, its likely it was after he had already had his brain hacked in half and he was dying in the freezer. He’s already “Out of (his) head) and we know humans cant survive with half a brain, it’s possibly why he was in the freezer, some kind of old sci-fi logic that it might keep him alive for as long as possible. 

His letter was likely written to get Dr Scott to call the police, he probably hoped his uncle wouldn’t just show up at the creepy mansion where the murderous aliens live. There could be two reasons why he wants help even if he knows he won’t survive out of the freezer. The first could be to save Branet from the “evil deeds” that Eddie landed them in, or he could have wanted Rocky to be saved, the other part of him which could be spared from whatever plans Frank had, it was more likely that Rocky would survive since he was a creation rather than an average human. 

Obviously Eddie wasn’t expecting his wheelchair bound uncle to just knock on the door to the home he’d been warned about, so when Rocky saw him, things changed, he had to play the part to keep his uncle safe. We know Eddie was a bit of a shit, but perhaps things had changed him in the mansion. 

Now we are at the floor show and I’m going to be doing a bit of reaching on this one, but I think it makes some sense. 

Frank bares his soul to his humans when he talks about his life. “That delicate, satin draped frame, as it clung to her thigh, how I started to cry, cause I wanted to be dressed just the same” 

We realize this is possibly Franks true shape. He’s the way he wants to be in make-up and wearing beautiful stockings and a corset. He sings them into a trance (Remember when Columbia said a single stare changed her whole outlook?) after they’ve all just sang about “The gas that Frankies landed” and “My love for a certain dope” so it’s likely now they’re all under his spell or he’s brought them over to how he feels, showing them the light that is not caring about anything other than whats in the moment (I like this one better) and even Rocky gets involved with it all, maybe he’s falling for his love all over again. 

But then Riff and Magenta burst in and tell Frank he’s basically doomed. They conclude his mission is a failure (Perhaps studying humans) and his lifestyle is too extreme (perhaps those evil deeds Eddie warned of) and he’s now their prisoner. 

Again, it’s easy to assume that the duo simply rose up and rebelled against their mission leader, but why now? If all they needed to do was grab their gun and tell him it was over, why wait? Why be whipped and forced to serve him if it was that easy? 

Well here is where I believe the transylvanians were involved. I believe they were invited by Frank to witness his scientific discovery of human life creation, but Eddie showed them Frank was a risk, bringing in humans, murdering them, it risked exposure of their presence on Earth. It’s entirely possible that the Transylvanians were some kind of higher power of the planet and what they witnessed was dangerous to their people and before leaving, they supplied Riff with a weapon which could kill Frank and told them to return without him that night. Something perhaps Eddie had predicted. 

You see this theory is mainly based on the belief that Frank and Eddie were close, their relationship was more than we first assume. In the stage version they talk about how they had a more mental relationship, but even in the film I firmly believe we can see that they share more than just a sexual relationship. Why did Frank take half of Eddies brain? Why not the full one? Perhaps he wanted to make the very opposite of Eddie physically, but still loved Eddie enough to give him a chance to live. Maybe Frank even kept going into the freezer to talk to him because he missed him after he took half of his brain. I’ve always thought that Frank and Eddie had more to their relationship than we see. Frank loved Eddies mind so much that he put half of it into the perfect specimen of a man, and he killed Eddie so easily because he knew he had another version of him in Rocky.  

So Frank may have told Eddie about the rules of the mission, and when Eddie knew the Transylvanians were coming, he planned to make Frank break the rules, to be all over Columbia to make him jealous, knowing it would tip his lover over the edge to kill him which would make the other aliens see how deranged he was, because he knew there would be punishment for Frank. 

The reason I believe the transylvanians are not bad aliens is because Riff at the end lets the humans go. He knows they could expose him but he tells them to run anyway, and he knows he can safely return home without being scared of consequence, which is why I think they gave him the go ahead and the gun to kill Frank. 

So here’s the sad part of my theory. Eddie knew he was going to die, he hoped he could have his other half saved, he planned for Rocky to survive and probably expose the aliens. He stood back and let them kill Frank, not trying to help defend him, but he overcame with grief when he saw his loves body laid lifeless at his own doing. Maybe it was out of pure love for Frank that he ran with his body knowing he’d likely be killed too, or maybe he’d seen too much and knew he couldn’t live with it, perhaps he just didn’t feel like Eddie and didn’t want to live as half a person. Either way, in this theory, Eddie was the hero who gave his life to expose a murderer with a terrifying plan against humans, and as Rocky, he gave his life again in either love or the depression he’d felt for the whole 7 hours of his life.

A sad life for Rocky who woke up with memories of what he had seen Frank do, maybe to other humans in the mansion which Eddie witnessed. He knew he was about to see his other half murdered by the man he had been in love with when he was Eddie, and he didn’t know where his life was supposed to go once free from the mansion. In this theory, Eddie and Rocky both give their lives. Eddie gives his to put an end to Frank, and Rocky gives his possibly because he can’t live without Frank or live with what he did to him.