Hello Mariana, please tick which option/s applies to you please.
Calling a girl pretty because you're a girls girl ☐
Calling a girl pretty because you're into them ☐
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I've spent way too much time being hyperfixated on just like... how Chiaki's outfit works and what it actually even is... so here's my ramblings!
First things first, Chiaki's outfit is not a jean jacket and a skirt, and it is not just a dress. It is a dress AND a croptop jean jacket.
The croptop is separate from the dress but may be able to be attached to the button on the dress.
Considering Chiaki's upper-class background, the croptop was definitely designed around being worn alongside the dress and vice versa (I mean EVERYTHING on her outfit is made out of denim, why would it not be custom-made)
Now, let's talk about her boots, they're high-heel boots that she wears with what appear to be bellbottom leg warmers or something.
I got no idea what those white shinguard looking things are but my partner said they might be inside out pockets, like the ones you'd see on jeans so I'm going with that.
Hopefully this helps any fellow artists and cosplayers that don't know the specifics of Chiaki's outfit!
Here's a (mildy) artistic rendering of my rambles
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Ya know SMTIV, what this is actually perfect. Remember what I said about how Nasu could never be asked to show even a modicum of respect to Tezctalipoca as a figure, and how the "Tezcatlipoca" in FGO in no way has the spirit of their alleged origins?
Well I don't care much for this design either.
In fact I don't like SMT's (or more specifically Soejima's, who is still very much talented as I'll make clear) Tezcatlipoca design at all. I personally find it ugly and having an aesthetic I'm not that fond of, particularly the sort of "Bigfoot sighting" pose he has going on.
But i don't hate it, and I certainly am not morally opposed to it like FGO's, because even if I personally dislike it, ya know what it is? It's still undeniably based on Tezcatlipoca and keeps that spirit in several ways evident through design alone, let alone the way he's implemented into the game itself. It's a design that feels like it respects the culture it's taking its name from, and I'd much rather it do that than have an aesthetic I'm more fond of but lack any representation of its source material.
Just on a surface level you can see the ways in which this is meant to be Tez.
Holding a human heart with one arm, which were sacrificed to him in Aztec rituals
His body is visibly black and navy blue and made of a stony substance, which is a reference to the association many aztec gods but especially Tez had with obsidian rock, and the main symbol of Tez is an obsidian mirror.
Despite this, his other arm and legs are dissolving into smoke at the end, which is a reference to his main title of Smoking Mirror.
His skull-like head is pretty clearly meant to invokes a Calavera, which even if you didnt know the name of you've probably seen if you've ever witnessed a Day of the Dead festival.
That's all just the surface level stuff. There's plenty more if you know to look for it.
While one of his arms is visible, neither of his legs are, which fits with how Tezcatlipoca lost at least one of his legs to the giant crocodile Cipactli when the world was created
While blue isn't the primary color Tez is associated with, the use of teal/navy blue specifically fits with how he was often depicted with an almost interchangeable combination of grey-ish dark blue and black.
Despite my "bigfoot posture" remark, it very much fits Tezcatlipoca, whose spirit animal was the Jaguar, an animal well known for stalking and ambushing prey (rather than chasing it down like African big cats are known to do).
the way the smoke curls around as if forming an extremely distorted prosthetic foot matches how Tez's missing foot is specifically portrayed in the Codex Yohualli Ehécatl (AKA, the source of the image on Tez's wikipedia page), particularly with how the coloring shifts to orange-yellow at the end.
The most shaky but still worth noting claim: The emphasis on the blood flowing from the heart, combined with the gems embedded in Tez's head, could even be a reference to the Ezpitzal, which while looking very different in mesoamerican art still is no doubt connected, given how the key traits are flowing blood and embedding precious stone in [a crown above] the head.
So....do I like this design? No, personally, not really. I'm way too much of an edgelord to settle for such a toned down and subtle design for a figure like Tezcatlipoca.
Do I respect this design? Absolutely, zero question. It's the kind of design you could never get if they didn't at least TRY to research Tezcatlipoca, let alone do so well (at least i can only assume well based on the result). That's the difference between this design and "some white guy from the GAP who likes guns". You can tell they gave a shit, not just in general but specifically in regards to the culture being referenced.
(Oh, and also unlike FGO Tezcatlipoca, I don't need to be told "someone famous drew it" to be able to figure out someone talented drew it. )
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scp 42427 (otherwise known as employee 427) is a humanoid male who calls himself Stanley. He is normal in all ways, but is accompanied by 42427-A, or ‘The Narrator’, who is a preachy, mildly annoying, disembodied voice. He is constantly narrating Stanley and whining about their containment cell. They do not appear to be harmful, but the Narrator has shown violent tendencies. Interact with caution.
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