Request: non-waifish females and aliens

Battleborn Battleborn General Discussion
#1

First time posting, please be gentle. I’m not an SJW looking to bring down the game. I’ve been reading through the forum lately because I’m excited for this game and can’t wait to get me and some friends playing in the open beta tomorrow (PC here). But I haven’t seen another post bringing up this one annoyance I have: where’s the big girls at?

I saw Rebel_Raven’s post about getting a tanky gunner female, and I agree with that too. But she said she was indifferent to that character’s figure. Well, in a similar vein, I have to ask would it be too much to get a female character that isn’t wasp-waisted or beanpole? Even Reyna’s hourglass figure is kind of typical.

I only bring this up because the male-aspected characters are so much more varied in their profiles. Some are mostly shoulders, some are mostly face, one seems to be mostly neck even. Obviously this is up to the creative team, but as a player, can I request someone with a more Ellie-like physique? Or even just Ellie herself, cause there’s totally room for Gearbox crossovers here.

With that out of the way, I hope we see more non-demihumans too. How about an amorphous sentient slime, or an insect-like character that walks on four+ legs?

Thanks for reading.

#2

I wouldn’t call Galilea waifish.

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#3

It might be easier to tell the scale of characters when I get to see them in-game, but I think most of Galilea’s size comes from her armor. Even then, she’s terribly lean around the waist, y’know? Again, I’m not trying to pick on the creative content of the game, just seeing a trend that I think can be broken and make the game even more… inclusive. Even the 26th character is so skinny.

#4

I would,she’s mai waifu everyday.

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#5

I’m not to sure about this, the cast seems very diverse, although a lot of the characters are quite skinny, it generally fits their character. I think if there is an opportunity to create a female character that doesn’t fit that without reducing her to being just that, then do it. What I mean by that is that character still needs to be an interesting character like the rest of them, I say this because so many games have done the opposite. Look at Zarya in overwatch, she’s a butch women yes, but that’s it, there’s nothing there.

So really, I think that Battleborns characters are great and incredibly diverse and if the devs can find a way to make that even more so then do it. But don’t sacrifice depth for it. But I do agree on more aliens, it just seems so strange that 40% of the beings in the remaining universe look human.

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#6

This fair point gives me the hilarious idea of an overweight warrior woman dressed like a viking that also loves opera.

Her ultimate will be called “It’s over” where she vocalizes in a loud soprano voice, causing damage and executing enemies when they are below a certain percentage of health. Executed enemies’ heads shatter.

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#7

This gave me an image of Ellie in heavy armor from Tina’s DLC.

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#8

I was going to give you a like, AMG, but then I remembered Ellie in that chain-mail bikini.

#9

The Princess Leia outfit made her feel pretty hot though (even if she could really use a sweater).

#10

This gave me an image of Ellie in heavy armor from Tina’s DLC.

…huh, yeah, it would be, wouldn’t it?

That would make the opera part important so they ain’t just exactly the same. :wink:

#11

That’s also a balance thing too though. If they give her a very large figure and then add a bunch of armor on top she’s going to end up being huge, which makes her a much bigger target. I’m also pretty sure that that’s part of why the other female characters are so small. Thorn for sure is thin as she is because they want to make her small and evasive so that she’s harder to hit.

#12

Oh man, I’d love there to be an “Ellie” playable character. Some absolute behemoth of a woman with a southern accent, very scantily clad (and quite possibly mocking the pose Blizzard just got “in trouble” for as a taunt, or some twerking).

She’d be a melee/tanky character obviously, but similar in size/style to Montana (a big, slow bullet sponge). Maybe give her a huge warhammer as a weapon.

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#13

I can get behind this, well anything really that involves getting more non-human characters in this game really.
If they do make a non-waifish female, please don’t be a robot xP
Btw I find Zarya from Overwatch waifish, sooo take that as you want ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

#14

I think it was for aesthetic reasons and not because of the reasons you posted, Bizz. Look at Montana: he’s a mountain of a man, which makes him a very big target, but he has a small crit area and he can soak up a huge amount of damage. GBX could easily create a female version of him without any issues. Thorn is so skinny because Elves are generally portrayed as such in video games. Warhammer: Vermintide pokes fun at this with one of the Dwarf’s callouts being “Not bad fer a skinny Elf!” when the Elf goes on a killing spree. GBX gave us Ellie, so they’ve shown they’re not adverse to having voluptuous females.

I suggested Orendi doing that pose, but I think your idea is 100x better. If I could, I’d give you another like. :dukecheese:

I’d play as her.

#15

I forget her name… that one support lady in the Rogues faction … she’s pretty burly all over, and rockin’ a set of serious thunder-thighs. :smile: haha…

Even the thin girls on the roster are interesting in this game because it definitely looks like they went for character stylization over cheap sex-appeal. (As expected from Gearbox, they’ve always shown a lot of respect for women of all shapes and sizes in their games)

Thorn, for example, is like… alien-gangly-thin, and has those proportionately large arms. And Shayne is… downright gender-ambiguous, if they didn’t provide her pronouns I wouldn’t have known she’s supposed to be a girl. I haven’t unlocked Orendi’s lore files yet but I’m preeeeetty sure she’s not human. At least not any more.

That being said, I’m totally down to see some bigger gals on the badass roster in the future. Could be Ellie-big, could just be chubby, could be buff, any of that would work. ^^

#16

Reyna? Yeah, she’s not exactly tiny by any comparison.

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#17

Buff please~ ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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#18

I appreciate all the responses. Obviously a character with a bigger profile should have more damage mitigation like a larger shield capacity, and there’s already been requests for another tanky female. Here’s one idea I had that floated to the top: a bellyful woman from a race of rhino/hippo/elephant-like mammals that wears a space or flight suit and wields a pair of retro-style laser pistols or rayguns. Or a large plasma cannon that fires a large but very slow ball that damages anything it passes through. And if she has a small voice like Marion Ramsey from Police Academy, even better. :smiley:

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#19

Love the rhino/hippo/elephant idea, but the whole “large person with high pitch voice” has been done many times before and also erks me.
If the character is going to be as large as a rhino/hippo/elephant, then I would rather her have a large plasma cannon as oppose to laser pistols or rayguns. (Big characters using tiny weapons also erks me.)
I dunno about the slow projectile that passes through multiple enemies (for one, someone has that in Overwatch.), the other tanks in the game have pretty fast projectiles (if they have projectiles).
Flight suit…ehhh, not creative enough (IMO).
Side-note: Don’t forget to make her buff ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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#20

Yeah, it’s great. Ain’t a lot of AAA games with women looking like that without it being a super-serious photorealistic sort of style.

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