#pantless marth

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Since I was busy with midterms, I couldn't draw Marth for his game import or when resplendent Marth got announced. So I combined the both, Have classic resplendent marth, in honor Marth Year. So proud, he deservers it.  

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So. They rereleased fire emblem 1 but in english this time! I really like these two, they’re just cute.

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In 2019, I drew pantless Marth. In 2020, I drew him again but traditionally. I was going to cosplay him but covid happened, my teddy bear will be the one cosplaying later next week. So instead, I must summon the power of the most powerful Marth ever made, Mr My Grabe Range Has Infinite Reach and a couple of other Marths just to be safe.

This year, he wins CYL. Please go vote for him :)

The colors are all based on their normal outfits since it would be a bit boring if they all wore the same colored outfit. Mystery of the Emblem Marth's outfit is based of this. The clothes he actually wore in-game, the pants on the cover are a lie.

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Legendary Marth + Pantless Marth

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Sword Slash Saturday: Why Marth’s Fe1 design is Actually Good and Not Just Some Silly Pantless Nonsense

“The Less pants I have the more powerful I become” -Marth (probably)

Sure we laugh at this 90′s look from our OG fire emblem lord. I joke about it, you do. Legs for days. And that tiny... tunic riding up his legs shorter than 1970′s basketball shorts, can you imagine fighting enemies and a giant dragon in those?! Well actually, the irony to this all, the answer to your question is yes, yes he absolutely can. Below for today I will explain why you should not laugh at this look, but F E A R it. P.S. there is a slight artistic nudity depictionn, you have been warned.

First we shall break down exactly why nintendo approved this look.

In the Fire Emblem OVA (animation), Marth was called Mars, which was the original Japanese name for him (translated to English) and eventually morphed to Marth. While marth is a soft soy boi who seeks piece and a bit naiive, the name Mars seems a complete contrast to his character! Anyway Mars is the Roman god of war. Romans were known to be fearsome warriors creating an empire by conquering a lot of the continent of Europe and constantly driving out and massacring those such as the Celts, Jews, Carthaginians, etc. You get the idea (in fact the fall of Rome was due to making so many enemies and being too large to even control).

If we look at the statue of Caesar Augustus (yeah that Caesar)

This bitch is dressed in no more than a breastplate and tunic. At least Marth has freaking pauldrons... but I guess Caesar was too busy getting stabbed in all emperor glory to worry about pauldrons all the time...

Anyway lets look at the Greek cousins of the Romans. The Greeks and Romans had similar fighting gear and I am too lazy to dig through the depths of google to find roman art depictions of warriors (I’ll get back to that in a sec), there’s only like historical renderings and deviantart paintings and dnd ocs. But here’s your nudity warning again

The Greek warriors are often depicted wearing helmets, brandishing swords, greeves (shin guards), a shield, a sheath, and uh... not really anything else. Yah. They’re fucking naked. Shield: held, Sword: brandished, Dick: OUT.

But let’s go over the logistics of this. Helmet covered the head, Nintendo left this out due to character design logistics. We need to see Marth’s pretty bishie boi face. He has some sort of breatplate in OVA, like the Romans. the chest is protected. While the greeks got their legs covered, Marth does not, and well he could use some greeves. But let’s look at the torso. How could the greeks afford just to wear greeves?. Well, that giant shield? Yah that covers the body. As for Marth’s minimal body armor? Well he’s got this:

The fire emblem is a shield. Covers most of the body when held close, and in the early fire emblem, marth cannot unequip it. So Marth’s body is protected. he also wears the cloth tunic of the Romans for extra you know something to you know... have some decency.

But Marth weilds Falchion, which in earlier posts I said was a Longsword, and not actually a falchion sword. With a Longsword, you don’t use a shield. It takes one hand for a shield, and two for a longsword, which doing humanoid math, accounts to not enough hands. So how the heck can Marth wield a longsword and a shield.

Well in his early depictions, Falchion isn’t that long compared to his current depictions:

(^that’s a longsword). Compared to the first fe1 image, which seems (at least to me, just roll with it), a bit shorter. Which could fit more of arming sword. And my instructor commented on how I scaled my prop Falchion that it while it *could* qualify as a longsword, could easily be used with one hand and a shield. The Romans learned iron working (making iron to steel which held advantage to the greek iron weapons), from the Celts, eventually perfecting it to overcome the Celts.

In conclusion, Marth’s tunic outfit is a repsresentation and depiction of the fearsome ruthless Roman warrior, known for pillaging the entire continent of Europe for at least 500 years. Y I K E S. Don’t mess with pantless Marth.

FE1 even made him an aggressively OP unit who could take down his entire game pretty much entirely on his own

Think twice before you think being pantless is funny. It’s not, it’s powerful.

If you want to check out how scary Roman Legionaries were:

Roman Empire

Roman tactics

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Tennis the Menace by RosalinasSoulmate

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A while back @masochistic-petals asked me how I put together my cape for Pantless!Marth.

This is that explanation, as best I can, for anyone who might get a use out of it!

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