Please do NOT alter Dark Knight AF for female characters.

[Samcaesar]

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What on earth are you talking about? I'm supposedly a man because I want to play a character model that I can identify with and not have to deal with stupid looking "Feminine" armor? How on earth do I denigrate female characters? I keep emphasizing the fact that armor isn't suppose to be masculine or feminine, it's suppose to protect a person. Either way, my gender doesn't change anything with my argument. I am a girl for your information, but that ultimately doesn't matter, focus on my argument and not whatever my gender is.

You ought to look up the concept of male power fantasies, because that's all Conan is. Sonja is made by men, for men, to look skimpy and "Badass" for men (A metal bikini top is hardly more than what Conan wears anyways). Seriously, I'm just saying men and women aren't as uniform as folks keep implying. Roegadyn women look more masculine than Lalafell men do, so tell me, why don't Lalafell men have a cute little bellyhole and all or why don't Roegadyn women have more covering because they look far more masculine than either Lalafell or Elezen do. Men and women aren't that different and whenever someone starts going "All women have curves and look feminine!" you have to ask them, well what about this women who doesn't have curves and doesn't look feminine? Let me ask you something, what makes a woman a woman? http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1470673/original.jpg Would you say any of these women aren't women? I can tell you several of those women aren't "Feminine" so would you start talking about how they aren't celebrating their differences?

I'm not against women being feminine, I'm against men (Or really this idea that a woman MUST be feminine) making women feminine. A "truly" (And I'm saying "truly" because this is a hilarious concept, it's like saying there's "True capitalism" or "True communism" it's an ideology which will have many interpretations of what "truly" is) feminist point of view would allow a woman to make what of her gender identity she wills to be, if that's present masculine (And this is to divide masculinity from "being a man") then she ought to be able to. Whenever you start saying "Celebrate the differences!" you lock women into a certain role, and what is the traditionally feminine? Sexy, submissive, quiet, complacent. However, we're not arguing about gender and all that sort of stuff, we're arguing armor here, armor exists to protect the body, not emphasize femininity or masculinity. On Sonja: She literally doesn't have a will of her own, she's a character created by a man, she doesn't have agency outside of what her creator gives her.

Again please look up Kate Beaton's "Strong Female Characters", as it provides a funny parody of what I'm attempting to talk about.

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Well, it needs to be "tight" in the sense that you can't have any extra loose bits hanging or it be too heavy, but it's got to be loose enough to often fit a layer of chain mail and be able to allow your body to move (Such as breathing or flexing) underneath it as well. Metal having thickness to it is important in ultimately keeping a blade/arrow from riding through. Though you are right with it being ill fitted, the transfer of force will end up being devastating in some spots.

I do feel there needs to be a difference between form-fitted and skin tight however. Like, for example, should armor accommodate for breasts? Yes it should, but not by emphasizing the breasts with a shape that gives clear distinct form to the boobs, rather it just be larger in that area. https://www.reddit.com/r/mountandbla...other_related/ This thread on reddit has a pretty reasonable explanation on what I'm talking about, though I disagree with one or two points of what the OP is saying.

Either way, you're definitely not wrong about the armor needing to be well fitted for it to be effected.

It's less an argument against well fitted, and more against one that's skin tight. In a fantasy setting like this, if the men's armor is bulky, then I feel the girl's ought to as well.

Actually if you read up on female armor and how FULL plate works you would know that females are better off wearing as little armor as possible on the upper torso.

Can you go more further in depth? The primary difference between men and women with regards to their torso is the presences of breasts (Well, large ones). You're going to want to have those safe under armor either way. Like.. How do boobs change the need for armor on the upper body any more than a flat chest would?