#or any of the non-visible muscle men like Leonidas and Spartacus and Darius and how their limbs are proportioned compared to Barghest

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Honestly, your criticism of Barghest feels rooted in gender-essentialism. Muscles=masculine. Muscles can be feminine too.

That...was literally the point I was making. My point was that FGO's constant gender-essentialism means it feels a need to apologize for making a remotely buff female character by constantly emphasizing her femininity (she wants a lover, she like cooking, she's constantly drawn in aprons and blushing timidly, everything about her second ascension exists and her third ascension is more focused on making her sexy than making her intimidating, etc) and explicitly doing so in a way that portrays her muscles as something monstrous to be ashamed of.

This is most of the official in game art for the "first real buff woman" in fgo. I think it's self demonstrating.

And while you can argue that, yes, just because a woman has muscles doesn't mean she can't have feminine interests and/or aesthetics, it IS an issue when the piece of media the character is from ONLY has those kinds of female characters to begin with. You can't have "a bit of column A and a bit of column B" if you never even set up column B in the first place.

#never thought i'd get an ask #you can argue you can't give muscles in the Grail League style and i'll argue with #look at Lu Bu's grail league art. or Heracles. #or any of the non-visible muscle men like Leonidas and Spartacus and Darius and how their limbs are proportioned compared to Barghest #fgo #fate grand order #character analysis #dont play gachas kids #barghest