[ SECRET POST #3851 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3851 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Horizon Zero Dawn]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 08 secrets from Secret Submission Post #551.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Her body is like many of the female parkour and sport climbing masters. Bigger muscles don't necessarily mean stronger muscles. If I remember correctly, raw strength (the highest weight you can lift with one to three reps) correlates more with muscle density, and endurance (the highest weight you can lift with 8-20 reps) correlates more with the size of the muscle. I'm not saying that size has NOTHING to do with it, but you can build a lot of strength before it shows more visibly, and diminishing returns must also be considered. Diet is another huge factor. Bodybuilders have to pay a lot of attention to what they eat and cycling their workouts to build the mass they do.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't disagree with you, but let's not pretend that they gave her the body they did because they wanted to be realistic.

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DA

...But she is realistic?

There's also nothing wrong with her being attractive. I don't hate looking at pretty art/characters in my games. That's what the designers are being paid to give us.

[(Anonymous)]

My comment wasn't meant to imply that she isn't realistic, merely to point out that it's unlikely realism was the designers' main concern. It seems silly to me to argue that this is the only body type this particular character could possibly have because of X, Y, and Z, when the real reason why she couldn't possibly have another body type (aside from perhaps a more waifish one) is almost certainly simply because the odds are severely stacked against a main female character in a game not being conventionally attractive.

Her being a little more muscular is hardly an absurdly unrealistic notion. There's a whole spectrum between what she looks like in the secret and what The Rock looks like. It's just that she's currently about as muscular as they can make her without gamers screeching about how ugly she is.

[(Anonymous)]

Except this is an optional outfit, maybe even a mod? The standard clothes are combinations of furs, armor, bones, and rope. Most of the time her body wouldn't be viewable, they didn't model her solely (or even mostly) for fan service.

[(Anonymous)]

Fans would still complain if she was too bulky...

[(Anonymous)]

And bodybuilders aren't typical athletes because their focus is only on how much they can lift rather than on what their body can do as a whole. If you look at runners, cyclists, gymnasts, ice skaters, etc., none of them are super bulky despite being capable of incredible athletic feats.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, honestly I'd rather see a range of athletic body types for both sexes. Lean, muscular male gymnast bodies, big-shouldered female swimmer bodies, stocky weight-lifter bodies etc.