my feelings are complicated
because while i am never going to shame or criticize anyone for being feminine or happening to conform (or deliberately conforming) to current ideals of beauty, that does not mean that femininity and the ideal of beauty are neutral or apolitical. bioware, out of…
I agree with this post.
Those animations have always been a little odd for me, since most of the f!Hawke’s I’ve played would not, in my head, walk like that or have idle animations like that. Most of them wouldn’t even wear an actual dress (which made me relieved when f!Hawke got the same outfit as m!Hawke in MotA) except for a couple of my mages and the Hawke who plans to enter the Chantry in a chaste marriage with Sebastian.
you win or you pie: re: f!hawke and the representation of women in the media
Kirkwall Was Totally Built On a Hellmouth 