#rom hack

i aim to act in opposition to these tendencies. i present to you all: The First Ever Good Metroid Nude Mod

this mod injects a bit of samus' cool and unapproachable character and buffer design from super metroid's ending and official art into the first metroid. this isn't the overtly objectified suitless samus of metroid 1 with her pencil-thin waist and goofy expression; this is a honed and capable samus who is taking her situation very seriously. which is important, because she has to kill mother brain and escape zebes in only her boots

she's naked. but she's not afraid

okay okay, fun and all aside: why did i make this? i've always had an interest in nudity and especially nudity as a form of self-expression, nudity as identity, nudity as a choice made with some personal intent. i've spent many, many years of my life seeking out reflections of that interest in the works of people who would probably not understand it at all, and i've spent just as long resenting that all those works ever gave me was discomfort with myself.

for me, to take a character in a preexisting work and make them naked is to project myself onto them. i don't want to remove from them their agency and divorce them from themselves, i want to entwine their character with either the circumstance of being naked or the choice to be naked. it's easy to just take princess peach's dress off; can you approach her character in a way that makes her believably want it off? idk maybe, i don't actually care about the answer to this specific hypothetical