I should probably explain what I mean by body types a bit more. I can't help but find that there's a lot of female characters that tend to be built like supermodels out there, regardless of how much sense it makes, so I thought it'd be nice to appreciate the ones that break out of the mold. Female characters that are more muscular, fatter, bigger, shorter, smaller, thinner, anything that doesn't fall within sterotypical super model range. I think a good example of this is a character that has been introduced into the TF2 comics. Heavy's sister Zhanna
She's much bigger than the average woman, to the point where she's freaking huge and some people are even scared of her (Well she's related to HEAVY. It's kinda expected) She's still attractive, but as people on this website will point out over and over again, individual choices aren't bad. Really there's nothing wrong with an attractive female character. Just the fact that there aren't many alternatives. Besides, Zhanna is a lot of fun. Her introduction was her wanting nothing more than to have sex with a man, yet at the same time she managed to make it about her and an interesting part of her character and the environment she grew up in. Her relationship with Soldier (He has a sex drive. I honestly had no idea) is actually pretty adorable. I had no idea you could make getting a necklace of severed ears as a gift and make it look cute, TF2 proved me wrong. Kinda cheating here, but TF2 is a video game first and the comics do take place in the same universe.
Speaking of which, a good example of an ugly female character is Christine from the Fallout NV: expansion Dead Money.
She got those scars from being locked in an automated surgery machine, which (Very understandably) made her rather claustrophobic and this actually plays into your interactions with her. She has a very interesting arc hunting down a former leader of hers and how it ties into her duty. She's also unique in that she's one of the few lesbian characters in gaming, and the only mute character that I can think of.
Now don't get me wrong. I'm not saying having an attractive female character that looks like a supermodel is bad. Far from it, I love plenty of characters like that. But when you design your character's appearance, you not just giving them a shell, what they look like is part of who they are. And seeing so many female characters with the same level of attractiveness and body type can get a little "Been there done that" before. Variety is the spice of life.
So let's get a list of the variety out there going.
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Here you can see Spy, Zhanna, and another spy
Here you can see Spy, Zhanna, and another spy
She's much bigger than the average woman, to the point where she's freaking huge and some people are even scared of her (Well she's related to HEAVY. It's kinda expected) She's still attractive, but as people on this website will point out over and over again, individual choices aren't bad. Really there's nothing wrong with an attractive female character. Just the fact that there aren't many alternatives. Besides, Zhanna is a lot of fun. Her introduction was her wanting nothing more than to have sex with a man, yet at the same time she managed to make it about her and an interesting part of her character and the environment she grew up in. Her relationship with Soldier (He has a sex drive. I honestly had no idea) is actually pretty adorable. I had no idea you could make getting a necklace of severed ears as a gift and make it look cute, TF2 proved me wrong. Kinda cheating here, but TF2 is a video game first and the comics do take place in the same universe.
Speaking of which, a good example of an ugly female character is Christine from the Fallout NV: expansion Dead Money.
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110510222546/fallout/images/c/c1/Christine_DM.jpg
I said let's put a SMILE on that face! You got it upside down!
I said let's put a SMILE on that face! You got it upside down!
She got those scars from being locked in an automated surgery machine, which (Very understandably) made her rather claustrophobic and this actually plays into your interactions with her. She has a very interesting arc hunting down a former leader of hers and how it ties into her duty. She's also unique in that she's one of the few lesbian characters in gaming, and the only mute character that I can think of.
Now don't get me wrong. I'm not saying having an attractive female character that looks like a supermodel is bad. Far from it, I love plenty of characters like that. But when you design your character's appearance, you not just giving them a shell, what they look like is part of who they are. And seeing so many female characters with the same level of attractiveness and body type can get a little "Been there done that" before. Variety is the spice of life.
So let's get a list of the variety out there going.
