9TailsFox wrote...
Bfler wrote...
Degs29 wrote...
As for Isabella, I think they were just going for that image of a female pirate from the 17th century. Strong-willed and sexualized. Of course, that's only how they've been depicted in Hollywood, so if that was already historically inaccurate....
The classical Hollywood female pirate wears long pants, some kind of (white) blouse and either a belt or a scarf around the waist.
Pirate women 
That's a historical illustration. The Hollywood stereotype is a bit different, more like Monkey Island's Elaine Marley Threepwood

or Geena Davis in Cutthroat Island:

Isabella's depantsification process is BioWare's unique addition to the mythos of female pirates, in the sense of taking a still vaguely recognisable Hollywoodesque pirate outfit and removing a key piece of clothing.
Then again, you should see Robert E. Howard's pirate queen Belit

.
Illustrations showing her, erm, scantily dressed are actually overdressing her. In Howard's own words about the 'Queen of the Black Coast' when she first meets Conan: 'Her only garment was a broad silken girdle'.
Howard did not stop at mere depantsification...
Modifié par Das Tentakel, 25 juillet 2013 - 06:31 .