ShadyKat wrote...
I'm just going to chalk up the female Turian, to crappy art work from Dark Horse. Bioware would not have held off on putting female Turians in ME1&2 if all they were going to look like were fringe-less males. They were going to make them look like the males at first, but one of the devs said that idea was dropped.
This is how they should look. Still looks just like the males, just thinner and more fimmine looking.
This is about what I expected. Just from what we've heard of male Turians, this seems a lot more sensible. Yes male birds tend to have brighter colors, but Turians are mostly Gray, White, and Brown to begin with. And while some bird species do have more plummage to atract females, that's only with a select few species and it's not exclusive to all birds. So why should this apply to Turians anyways? I never really saw Turians head fringe as a masculine display/peacock equivalent. If anything I thought the fringe was more of something related to age and clan status. Saren has some of the longest fringes so I guess you could make a point this made him more Charismatic as a male Turian.
Still the female Turian has like no fringes at all in the comic. Just some additional face plating, which fail to protect as much of the head. If anything she looks like a very young Turian or odd off-shoot of the species. If Turians are dinosaur like, shouldn't the females have more plating?
Still I got my ideas from what I heard in-game. The Turian at the Bachelor Party says Asari's heads look more like Turians. I assumed this meant females had head fringes in similair fashion as most males. Also Garrus says he would normally compliment a female on her fringe. I assumed this was an ancedote for hair. That's essentially the only thing I can Turian's fringe being really, since they have no real pratical purpose. Also Turians while bird/dinosaur-like are suppose to be more like us then any other species. I mean Turian society really isn't much different then many of our Imperial societies have been. Also I'm fairly certain Turians do not lay eggs like birds and dinosaurs, and guessing they mate in similair fashion as we do. Otherwise what the hell do males find attractive about the Asari at all?
Garrus also tells us a few other things. He pretty much alludes to the fact that in terms of physique female Turians aren't all that disimilar from human females. Female Turians are supposedly more flexible. They have larger supportive waists. Hmm sounds an awful lot like the dimoprhism in our species so far. Also Garrus says he has reach which implies males are larger/taller at the very least. Also it's implied they intercourse similair to us as well.
So yes I think it would be fair to expect female Turians to look somewhat feminine by our standards. This game is still just fantasy anyways, and most importantly it is game. To me it would be more sensible to have female Turians look feminine so that the majority of players aren't going "WTF". Now I'm not saying female Turians should cleavage, since they are obviously not mammals. I think most people are mature enough to realize that. Also the groundskeeper un-used dialogue refers to females not having funny bumps. So yes female Turians should not have boobs.
But that said it's utterly silly to make them un-feminine just because it's slightly more plausible from a scientific perspective. Hate to burst your bubble but ME is far from being scientifically accurate or logical. Also given the trend that ME2 kind of threw out practicality for having sex appeal, it seems silly Bioware would go this route. Maybe Bioware decided to wise up a bit for ME3, but after being subjected to Miranda, Tali, and Jack it seems especially silly to change their approach to character design. Also don't say ME1 was any better cause Ashley and Liara were in ME1 just as much for the sex appeal.
So why is it any worse that they would do the same for female Turians? What's the point of having them in-game if they aren't even really distinguishable as feminine to the average gamer? Let's be frank if there is a female Turian introduced as a sqadmate she'll probably be an L.I. Even if they aren't it just makes Turians seem more odd to us then they need be. Even those these are aliens they are all still very much human. Honestly I would been more content to simply have it explained the males and females are indistinguishable. That could at least better explain their lack of noticeable presence. But to make the females look like what's shown in this comic is just pointless, if not dumb.
I sincerely hope this is just bad concept work, and that if we do see something in ME3 it'll be something a bit more believable to concepts most players would get from what we know of Turians.
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) to be like her. I hope them to be as badass-looking as the male turians, but still seeing the pictures from the comic brought up puke in my throat. Mainly because the lack of fringe and horrible drag-queen dress. But like I have heard many people say, this is just one turian female, it doesn't mean that all of them will look like her. Besides after being huge Bioware fan for many years, I trust those guys. Even if my expectations of female turians turn out to be completely different from BW's, I will probably just be so over-joyed to see them in ME3 so that I don't care if they look like elcor's butt. ...
