[ SECRET POST #2114 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2114 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I find it hilarious how the designer who created Thane (and the asari, maybe? I'm not sure) talked about how when designing aliens women will be attracted to, you need to do this and that and this and that, but when designing aliens men will be attracted to, you just need to make them generically sexy, with a few token alien traits. (It's all the better because of how wrong he was, given how few people liked Liara compared to Tali.)

[forgottenjester]

I remember listening to them design the asari and how they said they couldn't change the face.

Then I looked at Thane and was like, "Oh, so you can't change the face?"

I felt like they didn't care as much about women finding Thane sexy so much as they cared about making him look cool. While with asari it has always been sexy first. So I feel like I was undervalued. Don't get me wrong, I find Thane nice-looking most of the time, but he's not the sex symbol the asari are.

[darkmanifest]

Exactly. People seem to think that, for straight women, "powerful badass" is all the sex appeal needed in male characters. I find Thane sexy as hell, but he doesn't get revealing outfits (the pec window is lol) or a stripped-down romance scene full of lean rippling muscles and fine scaly ass.

And man, I would have loved it if the asari had unsettling faces like every other alien (whose face we can see).

[forgottenjester]

It just shows that even with the characters supposed to be designed with the female fans in mind they still cared more about what their male fans thought of Thane over their female fans. At least, that's how I interpreted it.

I honestly wished they'd gone uncanny valley with them. All other species are like, "Yeah, asari are cool." Then the humans come along and they're the only ones who are like, "asari creep me the fuck out." They would also be the only ones asari would be hesitant to deal with. (If uncanny valley goes both ways.) It would create a real interesting dynamic.

[rivia]

well iirc, there's a video of a concept artist talking about making female aliens and joked about how the only way for them to read as 'women' was to "slap on some lipstick" or some shit like that. i don't really have much faith in them anymore in that respect -_-