Will Final Fantasy XV's Cid be a Lady?

[Hannibal_Khan]

Also, just found out something interesting which might further explain the attire of various characters in this game.

Tetsuya Nomura would be the director and character designer, but not costume designer, as Square Enix signed a contract with Japanese fashion brand "Roen" to promote their clothing designs in the game through different characters. Roen Creative Director Himuro Takahara serves as the game's costume designer.

I guess we should expect fashionable costumes for fashion stores and nothing but fashionable costumes for fashion stores. I expect with the limited number of females that pretty much every female will be dressed by Roen.

You know what? To me, that's a far more justifiable reason. We can never expect the fashion industry to get any more progressive. The male/female ratio is ridiculous there too, but they are quite transparent about objectifying men as frequently as they can. So at least it's a money and promotional issue, rather than some crusty old Japanese suits saying "Here's a female character... and now HERE'S HER BOOBS!"

This also has relevance to the Tedtalk Shulp cited. Most the images Ms. Heldman's used a examples of sexualy objectified women seem to be coming from fashion magazines. Now I might be wrong here, but if i'm not mistaken those are majority women in those editorial rooms deciding what goes into those magazines, which are mainly marketed towards women.

And to the people saying, "Cid's outfit doesn't look like a mechanic outfit", I say yes it does. It looks like a sexy mechanic outfit. It's almost like this game is a "Fantasy based on reality". hmm why does that sound familiar?

It's Final Fantasy! It literally has Fantasy in the title. And like Bob said previously, most character's in FF are portrayed as beautiful(except for villains, of course, who are probably disproportionately older, white-men.)

And then their's deviant.art, where there are some truly great artist(and people) who often do something very natural......... They depict our beloved FF character's in very sexually explicit ways. Are they wrong for doing this? Should we all apologize for our sex drives now?

I still find Cid's outfit tame compared to other character's outfits, but yet I've never heard this level of criticism for those character's. Is her outfit gratuitous? sure. But is it egregious? nope. fairly consistent with the rest of the title's, IMO. Everyone on this thread knew what to expect when it comes to these games.