Shouldn't FemShep have more muscle mass?
Femsheps in armor look fine, I can agree. This is mine when put into armor and she looks decent enough because the armor does a lot to keep up appearances.
However, when comparing more revealing clothes like this:
To this:
A few subtle differences occur to me when she's in her casual attire. Sheppard appears to need:
- Firmer muscles in the arm. Many have said this. They now look like twigs.
- Arms that hang slightly further from her torso. Women's arms who have more musculature on the torso, hang to the sides of their bodies more, because the shoulders and flanks are firmer and drive eachother apart. Femshep looks like she has her arms pasted directly to her slim torso.
- Tweak her shoulder and neck mass to have more definition and slightly more bulk and width. The current Femshep in regular attire has neither an hourglass shape, or a V shape. She has a ^ shape. Quite profound in her roughneck casual attire.
- Larger waistline. Only women who follow a diet can manage Shep's waistline. Women who work out get toned flanks, that diminish the hourshape figure somewhat.
- Femshep actually has a little bit of a belly when viewed from the side. Again, actual abs and muscles should straighten that out.
- Her neck shortened, because it draws too much attention right now to how lanky she is.
I'm a student of the biomedical sciences, so I've spend an hour doing what I'm good at and made a case for why I think she should look more muscular:
First, I'm going to withdraw from speculating about bioengineering, semi-robotic power suits, cybernetics, or how much Sheppard's gear weighs. We simply don't know enough about how those things work in the ME universe or if they apply to Sheppard. This is what I've found about ME armour and it doesn't say anything about armor assisted movement or how heavy gear is. With the lack of conclusive evidence to support 22st century combat aid and body support, my personal prefference would be to dismiss these when concidering Femshep's bodytype. As I've said before, this is a case towards putting more realism in the game and because there's so little evidence to the existence of assisted-movement, we're left with only the certainty that she uses nothing but her own body in the things she does.
What's left is a discussion how a real-world marine would look like. Its our closest comparison to what we should be looking for.
This here case study shows the body compositions of three bodytypes as a frame of Reference. Marathon (endurance) is skinny and lanky, Triathlon (mixed) looks quite normal and fit and Heptathlon (power) is muscular and sturdy. http://openwaterchic...ics-case-study/
Compare this with the in-game models.
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We can all immidiatly agree that Femshep does not have a Marathon type body form. Her current in-game form is more a Triathlon body type, while I'm arguing for a Heptathlon body type.
As a secondary point: we can least agree that MaleShep does look like a heptathlon athlete, not a triathlon type, but with no female equivalent in-game. This means there's relative physical inequity between gender bodytyping. If MaleShep and FemShep have the same gender un-biased backgrounds and training, then it would make sense that they have comparable bodytypes. This alone supports a Hepathlon body type for Femshep, or a less muscular body type for Maleshep.
Triathlon requires swimming, cycling and sprinting for long distances, which are mostly distance excersises.
Heptathlon requires Javalin throwing, pot shots, hurdles, jumps and running worth one kilometer. Heptathlons require quite a lot of "sprint and power" events.
So the question remaining is: Which of these looks most like a Female Marine's training regime?
This here is an article that shows minimal ftiness requirements of the female US marines.
http://usmilitary.ab...blfitfemale.htm A 2 mile run plus sit ups and pull ups.
And this here is an article that shows US Marine Corps reccommended body development excersises for women
http://www.chicagoma...maleworkout.pdf Lots of crunches and weights to shape fresh female recruits up, together with running excercises.
I would say that their training regime looks most like that of an heptathlon athlete. The short amount of heavy repititions, also seem to favour strength over endurance. They might run longer than a heptathlete, but the required strength excersises match quite closely. As was said before, ducking in and out of cover, is most important for a soldier. I suggest that the "sprint and power" techniques of the heptathlon matches this technique.
Do note that this not limit Femshep's endurance capabilities. Hepathlon athletes can still run a Marathon or Triathlon, they're just less optimized at it.
One needs to ask himself: What does Sheppard specialize in?
Is running more important to her than vaulting over crates, sprinting and shooting? If the answer is no, a hepathlon type body is more apropriate and the current body-typing should get buffed up.
Personally, I think that openwaterchicago.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/2008-decathlon_heptathlon.jpg can kick the current femshep's scrawney ass any day of the week. She's also more closely matched to Maleshep's physique, reducing current physical disparity between the genders.
I'd fully support using someone like Gina Carano for her bodytype. She's an American Martial Artist and a hand-to-hand combat specialist.
http://i557.photobuc...GinaCarano2.jpg
Modifié par Skirlasvoud, 19 novembre 2010 - 11:56 .
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