Invisible shield suggestion?

[Eidolon]

So youa re showing examples from other games that the animations and poses where designed that way, yeah, right. bad example. Or you think just to please a very tiny number of players they should rework all the animations for a silly idea?

Sure, they're designed not to have shields. But look at the character from FFXIV in the combat pose. He looks no more rediculous than any of the other characters, which was the point of my post - He looks like he's in a combat pose, even without his shield.

Each of those characters "Hold their hands crooked in the air as if they have a shield on their arm" except some of the double saber characters (because that's the 'cool' way to hold double sabers) and they look no more rediculous. Tidus, Lightning, etc... None of them look rediculous because they don't have a shield. Tidus just looks rediculous because he's Tidus. :P