#she rarely wears dresses because they're impractical

[99simproblems]

Suit and Gown

I might put Seon-hwa in dresses more often. She looks stunning in that gown.

[iamumbra195]

Okay, I keep seeing this everywhere and it's driving me insane.

Everytime someone points out how a teenage girl is oversexualized in a show-- with half her chest being shown for some odd reason-- someone else comes in and talks about how that person shouldn't complain because there's a man that walks around half naked in the show when these two things are fundamentally different???

Best example of this is Yaoyorozu and Kirishima from Mha

A man's chest being exposed and a woman's chest being exposed are two very different things. That's why it's perfectly fine for men to go to the beach wearing only swim shorts because they're covering the only intimate part of their body. Women cover their chest and private because those are the intimate part of their body.

The sexualization of men and women are very different. Stop comparing them. I'm aware that Kirishima and the other anime boys are sexualized but society has different standard for men and women. When women are sexualized, when teenage girls are sexualized, they are objectified in a way men aren't most of the time. Women are sexualized ALL the time and most of the time it's not welcome so stop comparing that shit.

The experiences of men and women are on opposite ends of the spectrum. Women are subject to sexualization from the age of eleven, sometimes even younger, and that's why you have characters like Sarada, who was what, twelve? in the early manga and was literally dressed in that abomination of outfit and walking around in 6 inch heels when she's literally a child. A child.

So back to my point, stop comparing a teenage girl in a dangerous industry walking around half naked (or completely naked in Hagakure's case) to a teenage boy that can literally turn his skin into armour because once again, men have one intimate area and women. have. TWO!!

There's also no reason for her or Hagakure to walk around like that when there's an in universe solution to their problem-- Mirio's DNA infused suit. Kirishima could do that as well if he wanted but once again, completely different situations here.

Also it kinda says something when its mostly the female characters quirks that require them to be half naked/naked (Yayorozu, Hagakure, Midnight, probably more...)

Thanks for listening

If you wanna know what pissed me off: https://www.reddit.com/r/BokunoheroFanfiction/comments/165100d/extremely_high_bmi_high_body_fat_momo_deals_with/

Also this redesign for Momo's suit looks great and suits her personality really well. If she really needs to make some really big like a cannon, you can add a zipper for that specific use but she rarely needs to make that sort of thing and it would take a lot of time to adding a zipper is hardly a big deal. She mostly makes things that she can literally create from her arms but for some reason she's always making from the weird boob window area.

Plus isn't quirk society super advanced? Why does she have a whole bookshelf on her hip when she can get like a tablet or some fancy glasses/goggles like Edith from Spider-Man: Far from Home

Also found a sarada redesign :)

SEE? SHE LOOKS COOL! GIRLS DON'T HAVE TO BE HALF NAKED TO LOOK COOL!

Literally all the girls in shipudden looked amazing in their ninja clothes without being sexualized, it's possible to do that Boruto too. And I don't give a fuck if it's modern times, do you see military women or police women dressed half naked? NO!

They're not regular civilians in Konoha who can dress any way they want, it has to be practical and Sarada's timeskip design? Very much impractical. I don't think this redesign is perfect cause the jacket looks a little too long and might get in the way of her reaching for her weapons pouch but it's way better than the original

Everyone keeps trying to say that everyone who dislikes the design is projecting their own misogynistic views and that they were all insecure like... Sorry I'm not comfortable seeing a sixteen year old dress like that? Sarada has been consitently sexualized in the manga and it's not cool. Idk why y'all are defending it. Like it if you want to Idc but ppl not liking is perfectly valid considering all the weird connotations it has

I like this design too, could do without the heels tbh

She reminds me of Sasuke in this and maki from JJK

A huge reason why I personally love JJK is because Gege doesn't needlessly oversexualize the women, both students and adults and they're all dressed in a practical uniform

[asteriasfallingstarsandtears]

Obviously XIV gives us a point of reference for character clothing through the use of glamours. However, beyond that, how does your character dress? Are their fabrics they prefer (cotton over wool, satin, silk, etc), do they tailor their clothes a certain way or do they tend to dress in certain colours? Is fashion and clothing something they care about, or is it more for function? Do they know how to repair their clothes if they get holes? What about things like shoes and accessories?

Thanks for the question! I love answering stuff like this about Mina and Theia!

General:

It ultimately depends on where she is. She grew up in Garlemald so she is most likely wearing lighter clothing than everyone else weather wise, but she's also rather insistent on wearing some sort of armour where she can.

Cotton wouldn't have been part of her standard clothing before she was twenty, since it is not good for cold weather, wool was probably something she wore often under her armour and jackets.

When she ended up in Eorzea she had the nightmare of adapting to hot and temperate weather and often wore as light clothing as she could safely get away with.

In her adventures she is always wearing some form of light armour, likely leather or cermet plate (this is a real material used in body armour!) once Cid is able to get it imported/recovered, enough to protect her from basic injury but not too heavy she can't move freely.

Places she can't or doesn't need armour:

She does have a soft spot for dresses, they're usually too impractical for her to wear though. The softer the material the happier she is, because she likes to pet it, so velvet and silk are her favourite indulgences that she rarely allows herself to have. Usually these fabrics are saved for state events she's been forced to go to due to Scion business.

Shoes: a good pair of leather boots are her favorite, something made to fit her foot and able to withstand a lot of travel and be comfortable. If it has a sole that is grippy for uneven terrain and support for her ankles, she's pretty happy. Think a construction work boot.

Accessories and little things about her:

She always wears a flower clip in her hair, she knows it's impractical, but her hair is one of the few indulgences she lets herself keep.

She also likes braids and plaits and learned how to do them. The gyr abanian plait was her standard hair style up until recently, briefly used Lyse's hair style and settled on Durante's going forward. She also dyes the blond parts of her hair green since arriving in Eorzea, much to a certain character's irritation later.

She always wears a single earring in places where it's warm, she removed them and most jewelry when she journeyed to cold regions such as Coerthas and Garlemald, to prevent frostbite. After Heavensward she wears a ring on her ring finger, the one she would have received from Haurchefant if things had gone differently and a necklace with two small crystals, a dark aspected one from Lahabrea and a ice aspected one from Ysayle. She also has a ring on that necklace after Shadowbringers from Emet-selch, which was something she had made him as Azem.

Can she fix her own clothes? Yes, it may not look fantastic on the inside, but it will be fully functional. She did get better at it from pre-ARR to Endwalker, Tataru got annoyed and sat her down and made her learn proper mending.

Colours: Mostly shades of green where she can. She has a few outfits in blue and reds, but she primarily wears green where she can. Tataru once again said she couldn't have every item be green and started making her wear other colours.

[but-the-library-of-alexandria]

#3 for the get to know your character questions! I'm actually not familiar with your stories, so if you have a link to where to read them, I'd love that too 😁

Hey thanks for asking!

3. What was their most expensive purchase/where does their disposable income go? (Gets you thinking about socio-economic class, values, and how they spend their leisure time)

For my current project, both my protagonists (they're siblings) are nobility, and although they have pretty different feelings about this - Max hates class distinctions and feels a lot closer to her working-class father than her snobby mother, while Cyrus is more inclined to fit into the social norms of his community - they're both (ironically) quite into their luxuries. They both like their fancy clothes, although Cy wears them day-to-day while Max only dresses up for occasions.

Max's biggest purchase would probably be something a little impractical and silly, probably a gift for someone else. WAIT no I know what it was - she bought a very well-bred but barely-broken half-wild stallion which definitely could have killed her and probably tried to a few times, but she calls him her little sweet baby and explains to everyone that the key to taming a stallion is to not, then she gets on his back and just sort of goes wherever he takes her until he likes her enough that he'll do what she asks. this is a workable metaphor for her taste in romantic partners.

Cyrus would spend a fortune on a rare old book or legendary magic item, but he'd agonise over it for weeks because he's a self-insert and I have money anxiety lol. I don't think he's a big spender, probably more of a big saver. He likes his fancy jewellery and fine clothes but I think he'd only spend a reasonable amount - I think he's less of a 'one big crazy treat' guy and more of a 'steady stream of sensible good-quality luxuries' guy. He almost never buys gifts bc it doesn't occur to him.

As for where you can read my work, I don't think anything recent of mine is available lol - I have a completed novel but I'm not circulating it bc idk what I'm doing with it, probably nothing but just in case. You can read some short stories of mine here and here and here, and a novella here. I'll let you know what happens with my nanowrimo novel, once it's fully done and edited I'll apply to agents etc. but that will be a while!