[Serra Britt]

I'm so happy to see them aged 20+ Too many games use 15-18 year olds and in my opinion that tends to cut into the story a bit. Grandia being a huge exception... I feel like I'm watching a master at work here or something :3

Edit: Oh, and yes Suzerain, this is Nina, I put my reference pic in 10,000 Cat paws charity since that's where I was at the time when I did this.

[Suzerain of Sheol]

Oh, they worked? Awesome!

And, honestly, I kind of wanted to make some of them older, but unfortunately, I couldn't since... well, Tristan and Orec are still squires at the beginning. Honestly, they're probably too old, but... they don't act like teenagers and I do hate that trope you mentioned.

Oh, by the way, those will all be playable characters at some point. :p Only about half of them are at the moment, though.

[Suzerain of Sheol]

Blah, double post, but I need to rant about something.

For whatever reason, I decided to watch the finale of Camelot just now. I'm not even going to get into everything that was wrong with it, but one thing just stands out as stupefyingly bad writing/directing.

So... a certain knight, who might have a reputation as being a great warrior, is killed in this episode. By a mob of peasants. And do you want to know why he was killed? Because he WENT INTO BATTLE WEARING PAJAMAS. I'm not even joking.

Um... hello, the whole point of being a knight is being well-protected by the armor you can afford thanks to being a vassal-lord. Training will only take you so far. I kid you not, there was not a single weapon in said peasant horde that could have harmed him, had he been wearing plate and chain, with an arming coat and a gambeson (a camail and helm, obviously). But... no, he decided it was more strategically sound to fight in his PJs. And they expect me to feel grief over his death? Yeah... right.

I mean, even Arthur, who's played by a model and couldn't possibly go to war with his flowing gold locks on full display, was wearing a brigandine.

[Quiet Man Cometh]

What was the strategic purpose behind said pajamas, precisely?

[Suzerain of Sheol]

Uh... I have no idea. I saw his death coming two weeks ago, and I figure they just wanted to get rid of him. And, seriously, if he'd been in full armor, I don't think there's anything this peasant horde could have done to hurt him, since he wasn't fighting alone, by any means.

[Quiet Man Cometh]

Maybe we're supposed to feel grief for him because he went unarmoured, and therefore with more nobility, into a field of like combatants. He didn't even have a sword, we must grieve!

[Suzerain of Sheol]

I'll have none of your Devil's advocacy in this thread.!

:p

...we only represent the Devil pro bono here.

[Quiet Man Cometh]

My kingdom for a dissenting opinion!

[Serra Britt]

Maybe he wanted to die, I guess? :p Of course maybe he was fighting in his PJs because he had just finished making love, since there seems to be a lot of that in that show anyways.

Does it make me a nerd that I know what brigandine actually is? XD

[Quiet Man Cometh]

Me too, so yes. :)

[Serra Britt]

I still remember in junior high I did a report on weapons and armor, and the different varieties. When everyone else was doing sports or animals and the like xD

[Suzerain of Sheol]

I did one of those, too. Sixth grade English class.

[Serra Britt]

Suzerain, how do you think I did on my cosplay? I didn't get your input on this one yet :p

[Quiet Man Cometh]

I liked animals. I did a report on flamingos. Though I was one of the few people in my rural university who knew what a baldric was when we were reading pre-victorian British poetry. Wherever Tennyson falls.

[Suzerain of Sheol]

Originally Posted by Serra Britt

Suzerain, how do you think I did on my cosplay? I didn't get your input on this one yet :p

Oh, sorry. She looks pretty good, I think. The only thing that could really be improved in my opinion is the wings. Too bad Feather Folk doesn't come in black. >_>

[Serra Britt]

The whisper Wings do come in black and they are a bit bigger than these ones. None of them are really as big as the wings from the reference picture though.