Complex stuff is complex, but Lightning is Lightning.
If it were Lebreaux having fun with sexy costumes, I'd think it were appealling and adorable, because she appears to me to have a whimsical fashion sense. Even Yuna, as an expression of "trying on different clothes, having fun, finding herself, acting like a regular teenager and living the life she denied herself as a prim and proper virgin sacrifice," makes sense.
But Lightning? WTF?
Mostly, though, it's just that for me, the character matters more than her appearance, and I found it deeply disturbing that the male director and designer of Lightning Returns seemed to be fixated on her as eye candy more than as a person, as if that's the chief selling point of the character, when she is a helluva person.
And this is from someone who puts Fran in front of the party partly because I like her butt. But that's not what I think of first when I think of Fran (I think of her voice). She's a fascinating character who happens to have a nice butt. I would still like the character (and think it was pretty fantastic) if Viera were heavy-set, earthy and weathered like treebark instead of video game sexybuild.
Re: tl;dr: complex stuff is complex. :|
If it were Lebreaux having fun with sexy costumes, I'd think it were appealling and adorable, because she appears to me to have a whimsical fashion sense. Even Yuna, as an expression of "trying on different clothes, having fun, finding herself, acting like a regular teenager and living the life she denied herself as a prim and proper virgin sacrifice," makes sense.
But Lightning? WTF?
Mostly, though, it's just that for me, the character matters more than her appearance, and I found it deeply disturbing that the male director and designer of Lightning Returns seemed to be fixated on her as eye candy more than as a person, as if that's the chief selling point of the character, when she is a helluva person.
And this is from someone who puts Fran in front of the party partly because I like her butt. But that's not what I think of first when I think of Fran (I think of her voice). She's a fascinating character who happens to have a nice butt. I would still like the character (and think it was pretty fantastic) if Viera were heavy-set, earthy and weathered like treebark instead of video game sexybuild.