Why is Vanille's l'Cie mark located on her thigh?!

[Loony BoB]

Nomura is the best character designer ever then.

[Mirage]

Lightning's brand is located on her upper chest, also known as the decollete, as opposed to the lower chest, where the boobs are. And that is a bit suggestive, only because the bare female chest is meant to be censored, although no such taboo applies to the male chest, but again, it's not on her boobs.

And the sexualization of female characters first started in Final Fantasy VII, with Tifa's crop top and short shorts/mini skirt. And that's because Tetsuya Nomura became the character designer.

How do you know it's on the upper chest, have you seen it?

and haven't you seen the extremely skimpy outfits of earlier FF bosses when Nomura did the monster design?

[Jessweeee♪]

That last one is the censored version, I think.

[Mirage]

Don't think there was a Chadarnook with actual visible tits.

There is (was, maybe, not sure if they changed it in the GBA ports) however some censoring going on in the battles before Kefka, and when Lenna is taken over by a monster in that forest in FF5.

[SuperMillionaire]

Lightning's brand is located on her upper chest, also known as the decollete, as opposed to the lower chest, where the boobs are. And that is a bit suggestive, only because the bare female chest is meant to be censored, although no such taboo applies to the male chest, but again, it's not on her boobs.

And the sexualization of female characters first started in Final Fantasy VII, with Tifa's crop top and short shorts/mini skirt. And that's because Tetsuya Nomura became the character designer.

How do you know it's on the upper chest, have you seen it?

and haven't you seen the extremely skimpy outfits of earlier FF bosses when Nomura did the monster design?

The position of Fang's eyes (as I saw it) when she looked at Lightning's l'Cie brand seemed to look at her upper chest area. In addition, Lightning only needed to unzip just the upper chest portion of her turtleneck vest.

[Tarquin]

Might also ask why Vanille is the only character who doesn't keep her clothes on in crystal form...

[Mirage]

I approve of that anyway.

[Vyk]

Yupp. So buying this game now ((SPOILER)'cept not)

[Jessweeee♪]

Might also ask why Vanille is the only character who doesn't keep her clothes on in crystal form...

Ending spoilerHope in crystal form: Untitled.png

I think he's naked? Though really that wouldn't make any sense. I watched the ending to get that screen shot and Vanille was clothed in her crystal. You can just barely see them, just like everyone else.

[Rostum]

Sex sells, is that really hard to take?

[Elly]

i think the best answer to all these silly "why is _____?" questions is best answered with; because that's what the game designers wanted...

[Loony BoB]

Let's be fair, now.

That's what everyone wanted.

[Tarquin]

Might also ask why Vanille is the only character who doesn't keep her clothes on in crystal form...

Ending spoilerHope in crystal form: Untitled.png

I think he's naked? Though really that wouldn't make any sense. I watched the ending to get that screen shot and Vanille was clothed in her crystal. You can just barely see them, just like everyone else.

I knew this wouldn't be a hard and fast rule (eg I didn't know about Serah) but I was mainly thinking of the flashback when Vanille wakes up - clearly reforms naked and is deliberately covered in the right places, then clothes burn on, or something, yet when Lightning wakes in the end, clothes were always there...

[Jessweeee♪]

MOON PRISM POWER MAKE-UP!

[SuperMillionaire]

Might also ask why Vanille is the only character who doesn't keep her clothes on in crystal form...

Ending spoilerHope in crystal form: Untitled.png

I think he's naked? Though really that wouldn't make any sense. I watched the ending to get that screen shot and Vanille was clothed in her crystal. You can just barely see them, just like everyone else.

I knew this wouldn't be a hard and fast rule (eg I didn't know about Serah) but I was mainly thinking of the flashback when Vanille wakes up - clearly reforms naked and is deliberately covered in the right places, then clothes burn on, or something, yet when Lightning wakes in the end, clothes were always there...

Fang and Vanille remained in crystal stasis, but Lightning and the others awoken and were turned back into regular human beings.