Please do NOT alter Dark Knight AF for female characters.

[beowulf81]

Plenty of female characters need not look like striped down versions of their male counter parts, Unohana Retsu never did and she held the mantel of Kenpachi for quite a while.

Unohana, for the longest time, was presented to us as a meek healer, and her appearance gave us no reason to suspect she was anything other than that. At no point did she ever look anywhere near as imposing or as physically threatening as Zaraki. And you know what? That was perfectly fine. She may not have been the hulking powerhouse that Zaraki is, but she was a capable and powerful kenpachi in her own right. She didn't need to look like Zaraki to stand against him. Wrong example pal.

Predominately many are flocking to DRK due to the look of the job. So far it has been presented as vicious fighter capable of both magical and physical attacks. The imposing look is what is making it popular, the want to look imposing should not be the sole providence of male characters. The fact 33 pages and 330 post later can attest to the interest of this topic, the OP has well over 300 likes. All this says to me that plenty of those that use female characters also want feel like fierce, imposing, vicious tanks, even if they never wanted to be juggernauts, they deserve to be taken seriously.

The way the job has been presented to us, it looks menacing and powerful. It would not look nearly as menacing or as powerful if they had depicted a male lalafel as a dark knight instead of a male au ra. Many of the people flocking to dark knight will change to a male au ra because they look vicious and imposing. That does not mean that lalafel dark knights will look vicious or imposing, and I'm quite sure that they will not.

That doesn't mean that you shouldn't take lala dark knights seriously, because its the player's skill that will decide if they are seen as imposing tanks, not their physical stature. If you turn out to be rubbish as a dark knight, the fact that you rolled a male rho will not prevent people from deciding not to take you seriously, however much of a juggernaut you may appear to be.