no shade to ffxiv but...female charr supremacy
@kyriathanatos
So peaking through the notes and no one has mentioned the best part about female charr in Guild Wars 2
Y'see, in Guild Wars 1 you never saw any charr women, because the Flame Legion are (or at least were) massive misogynists and viewed women as inferior. Couple hundred years later in Guild Wars 2, while Flame Legion is still the worst, the Iron, Blood, and Ash Legions don't have this issue. Women are viewed as equal to the men.
Why am I bringing up this in game history lesson? Because it means the devs had a unique challenge: with charr now being a playable race, how do they represent female charr? They've never been seen in GW1, so there was no existing design. There were a few designs put forward, some of which were definitely closer to the more traditional catgirl style.
Eventually they decided to go closer to what we see today, but there was still one conundrum: boobs? They still wanted ways to differentiate between men and women, and boobs are usually a good shortcut to that. However, they felt that it undercut some of the work they did in other areas to make the women look fierce and badass. So after some debate, the art team was given an ultimatum.
"Either be subtle and downplay the breasts (it wasn't a point of the race, anyway) or go full-on realistic. Yes, that's right —none or six!!" - Kristen Perry, former character art lead for Guild Wars 2
And I absolutely love that so much! I love that they thought about going with the catgirl route and decided against it, and I absolutely love the ultimatum of "look if you're going to add boobs, you have to give them six of them. I will take nothing in between" because I find it hilarious.
Anyway this is your Guild Wars 2 related boob rant for the day. You're welcome
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