/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>9485933

There's some minis where Valkiya has the midriff and such exposed but it has a lot more that adds to it - horns, bat wings, additional bits of armor. The pic I posted kind of made me unsure if the midriff was flesh or bronze (I think it's bronze) but if it was just flesh at least the ptergues and hip-plates help to balance the look.

>>9485936

I appreciate that it seems reasonable, ultimately course all this shit is just opinions and I really don't give a huge fuck if someone does this. It just kinda seems like a waste of potential and makes me eyeroll when I see it now. I can understand how for women trying to do more authentic cosplay it can grate on their nerves more.

To your question: Quiet is an official character from a game. That's her specific canonical look, so you are being authentic and accurate to do her that way. Same as any other cheesecake looking character's authentic look (like a WOW night elf). I know you might counter with "What's the difference of someone doing their own fictional character and doing a specific character that looks scantily clad"? Admittedly that's a tricky point, but I see it as the specific character's look was designed by someone else so to pull them off you have to dress cheesecake. If your fictional character is designed to be cheesecake, then that's your conscious choice to be gratuitous. And there it becomes a question of sensibility to the character/setting. Half naked magical girl? Yeah you can justify that. Boobplate armor bikini? Unless the setting is a Hyboria/Azeroth you can't bullshit your way out of it being about booth-babing.

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