Oh dear, I dropped Voidstrike smut...

and frey never got another pic with johedy after this 😅

me when frey:

So recently Square Enix launched a new game where the premise is that the protagonist is the reluctant hero of a fantasy world they find themselves in, having been born and raised in New York. It recently got some loud pushback from people who were upset that protagonist... lemme check notes... sounds like a sassy New Yorker.

Fortunately, the actress has had the perfect attitude toward it:

Now, the game has not been getting spectacular reviews, and the reasons for that vary but I'm not here to talk about trend of critics (well meaning or not) raising standards for products say... starring a black woman and having a mostly female cast, or even about problem of Sacrificial Trash.

I want to talk about this as a good example when we talk about "protected by magic" outfits.

Frey is a New Yorker now blessed with magical power, she has never been trained in armor use, doesn't own armor and so... wears comfortable and practical clothes like you would expect. The whole look conveys an interesting look of a modern person with practical sensibilities in a fantasy world.

She has two main kinds of magic items - cloaks and necklaces. Both items that can be worn over clothes without sacrificing practicality.

She also has a unique, widely considered feminine option for store her magical powers - her nails.

As well as being one of the most innovative expansions into fantasy magic I've seen in mainstream for a while it really also goes a long way to showcase what, so often, is the actual crippling flaw with the "doesn't need it because magic/badass/etc" rhetoric.

Not because you can't have an interesting design that avoids armor etc, but because it's pretty much always the same nonsense with going overboard with designing pseudo-porn and then trying to justify it after the fact rather than exploring possibilities and playing with ideas about what x would mean for y.

Also can we please have more games with character designs like this in them, I'm still thinking about how cool this boss intro was:

I know I said I was going to slow down with the Voidstrike drawing but I can't help it 🤷🏾‍♀️ I said I was going to focus more on portrait drawings- I lied I want to practice anatomy and clothes

Seyka: Guess she has a type.

This is something we've been wondering about in the lore discord server. We genuinely don't know. And this is especially surprising because....Apex Legends Mobile, by the devs and writers, was considered canon material, in a similar form to side stories. So now that it's gone, what now? Do we pretend like it never existed? Are Fade and Rhapsody even still participating, just not as main characters? Does Loba know Fade? Etc etc etc.

We genuinely don't know from a lore perspective.

As far as technically, I also don't know. The entire team who worked on Apex Legends Mobile was laid off and there's no telling if those character models and assets are easily accessible (they might be since it's still Respawn's project overall). But game companies generally have things mapped out months and years in advance. So even if they wanted to eventually include both of them, it probably wouldn't be for a while. Apex Mobile being sunset came as a shock to the employees at the company itself (or at seemed that way considering thier reactions on Twitter that day) and it's likely they had no plans of adding them to the main game at all.