Quote Originally Posted by Halivel View Post
Don't forget that twins also lived on Source for a year. They both are 17-18 there, if we imply that ARR+HW+SB magically happened in less than a year. That said, Ryne age range can go from 16 to 18, but nothing really stops SE from saying she's even 19. "Same age" is a vague criteria. And barking around until they openly say her age is just useless, really. Not to mention that her outfit wasn't even done this way for sexualisation purpose, but I guess no matter what we say, people will stick to their own ideas.
An interesting thing to note is that the passage of time isn't the same on The Source and The First. So far it seems time passes faster (or at least sometimes does) on The First. So whenever the twins do get back to their real bodies they could be back in their 16 - 17 year old bodies again, but with an additional year or two of life experience due to their time in The First. This is very much a tangent that isn't really related to the thread, but I thought it was an interesting thing to point out.

I seriously doubt only a year has passed from ARR to ShB. To me it just seems ridiculous that all of that could happen in the space of a year. Two years seems much more plausible. I don't think SE ever explicitly said how much time has passed. I wonder if they only will when the twins finally get their growth spurt.

Quote Originally Posted by Halivel View Post
As much as I am agree with is, just to be fair: games do have an influence on real life world, or rather, on what people find acceptable or not. Doesn't mean they need to change Eden Shiva design, though, because it has nothing to do with sexualisation. People should stop pushing the mindset "girl's bare skin = sex", that's what is really harmful. In the world where women for many years tried to say "no matter what I wear it doesn't mean I want this kind of attention" we now have... this kind of posts. In their best intentions, I guess, but as result achieving literally opposite results.
It's different when a grown woman shows a lot of skin. They're more prepared to deal with a situation of someone being inappropriate with them than a teen would be. I think everyone should be able to dress how they want, and in an ideal world this is how it would be, but our world isn't ideal so we have creeps that give people trouble and second thoughts.

It's also not really that Ryne is showing so much skin, it's what specific skin she is showing. It's not just some thighs or arms. One outfit has very accentuated cleavage with a huge cut-out pointing to her crotch. Ryne in shorts and a t-shirt shows more skin than that, but due to the nature of how the skin is accentuated and where, that outfit would be considered very tame.

The outfit with the cut-out bothers me most because it very much highlights and points to parts of her body that would often be associated with sex. Her being wrapped up in a snake-like dragon bothers me less because the "clothing" isn't really pointing to any specific part of her body, so it's not drawing the eye to any one specific place as much as the cut-out outfit does. Not that it doesn't bother me though, because it does. Just less so.