I like Kaine a lot as a character but I could not get over her outfit even a little. I find her design absolutely repulsive.
It's pretty awesome that anyone could identify with her like this, though. That makes me happy.
I don't think you're weird. I personally think it's a gorgeous design. It's one of my favorite female designs of the past few years and I'd love to cosplay it if I could.
The thong is too much though, yeah.
Haha, yeah, I don't actually think I'm broken or anything, I just have a bad habit of self deprecation when I'm feeling uncertain.
Honestly I often feel a lot of sexualized designs look super cool, but I suspect that's just part of the normalization of such designs. Then again I also find a (non-boob-plated) heavily armored woman badass, too. And women in normal clothes with rad attitudes! So it's not like I'm super picky here.
A tiny part of me is jealous, too, because I never really get to see sexualized dudes who are also badass in the way I'd like. Western media generally portrays them as super buff, which, while I sure like Chris Hemsworth, he's always just "yeah I've got the muscles and the face". Meanwhile, Japanese games tend to give their male characters costumes I find either weird/offputting, or just uninteresting. At least they're not super buff
all the time, but still. It's rare for me to see such interesting and cool and attractive costume design on men, at least not any that I'm into. Buff or otherwise.
Basically, while I've never done cosplay, I'd like to see a male outfit that excites me like 2B's does. Who knows. Maybe I would cosplay once that happened. (Among other things.) I know there are actually plenty of cool designs across the spectrum, but I find myself thinking this way a lot, so clearly there's an imbalance in my head somewhere... Hmmm.
Well that's not where I expected this post to go!
Anyway cosplay is cool, and I sure wish her outfit didn't so easily expose said thong haha.
