Character Design Appreciation Post: Ivy Valentine
Ivy’s reveal yesterday got me looking back on the character and her designs throughout the series. Soul Calibur was always interesting with how it changed up everyone’s costumes in every entry. Course, the more things change, the more they stay the same and Ivy’s costume is wonderfully ridiculous in each game.
Ivy is the primary “femme fatale” of the SC series so naturally her costumes were designed to suit this. Given that she used a whip-sword as her weapon, it is naturally fitting that she’d have a lot of dominatrix inspired elements in her design.
Out of her primary costumes, I’d say my favorite is probably her SCII costume. It really gets the “badass dominatrix” look down without going into the sillier territories like her “How is this even staying on?” SCIV look. Though I actually do kinda dig her SCV look even though that was one of the games I never played. I think the jacket really helps that costume stand out among the rest (though I think the finger needles aren’t quite as cool as her claws in the other costumes).
While it is true that Ivy’s costumes designs are incredibly silly, even by sexy female character standards (and I’m sure many take issue with how she looks), I feel that it really has helped her stand out and made her an unforgettable character in the gaming space. Ivy’s combination of beautiful, sexy and rather silly is why she’s stuck with me, and many others, for so long.
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