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Hanasei have a wide range of body types, but on average they tend to be a bit wider with fat and skin folds. It is easier for a hanasei to gain weight above the average than it is for them to lose it.

Fatter hanasei often keep skin folds on top of body rolls due to fat increase. Skinnier hanasei will have looser, wider and saggier skin folds due to their lack of weight in expected areas. High muscular mass doesn't seem to affect the skin compared to other body types.

In hanasei culture, a large body type is seen as more attractive, whether it be muscle or fat. This is because the main activity in breeding season — also known as aether high seasons — is erotic fighting (or as erotic as a species who do not participate in sexual intercourse can be), and these two body types fit the standards for the two preferred types of fighters:

Oarue — a muscular fighter that focuses on sole strength and heavy blows — and the Alytó — a fat fighter that focuses on resistance and overwhelming the opponent.

Skinnier hanasei are associated with more underhanded tactics in the practice, being agility and evasion. Fights are meant to be matches of strength and stamina, not of "tactical prowess". Thus, the body type is seen as undesirable and ugly by most hanasei cultures. Though those who interact with tajira may call it a tajira-type body instead, associated with a desire to mingle and relate to the other sophonts.

The standard of fatter body types is very desirable to luminae, who prize fatness over anything else, and have a tendency to eroticize the hanasei body.

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