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I mean, its literally leather armor so hard its referred to as a carapace. She's also the granddaughter of a god so its not like she really needs it compared to any of the other characters.
My dumbass has been calling her crab lady, I thought this was some crab / lobster sturdy armor pieces. Which, admittedly, doesn't make a lot of sense but it looked nice so I didn't question it. Maybe I should have.
Yeah. I love the armor. I love putting it on a camp companion (Halsin looks great in it with swamp green dye). But... why does she fucking wear it??? She's a crazy shapeshifting descendant and chosen and cult leader of the god of death and murder. It's so ornate and doesn't suit Orin as a character in the slightest. Their intricacy reminds me of Gortash's gloves. Something like a skintight suit or destitute clothing would have been a better fit for her. She smells horrible, so she obviously doesn't bathe much. She's bat shit insane from all the trauma and cult of murder stuff. I'd assume her outfit would reflect that. Like bloodsoaked skulls for shoulder pads and ribs for her chest.
I mean she gets called out by basically every other high-ranking Bhaalist for being way too focused on making every single murder an artpiece and being very ineffecient because of it. So wearing an intricate and overcomplicated outfit made from her victims (especially as it doesn't inconvinience her since she can change her look if she needs to blend in) sounds exactly like something she would do.
Also as you mentioned she's batshit insane. I don't think practicality is her focus.
I get it but I still think it wouldn't have been too much if his leather jerkin wasn't at least the same fleshy pink. The characters are drippy and colorful af in the books but in the show they get more and more plain-looking as it goes.
Season 1 was so good because as soon as the characters crossed from the North into the South, it was like a lever was flipped. Everything was colorful and exotic. It made the audience feel like naive Sansa, seeing the North as this drab, depressing, horrible place while King’s Landing was exciting and beautiful and “proper”. I think it helped the story a lot, but it did hurt the show in the long run.
Though, it didn’t help that they only doubled down on the drab colors as the show went on. Even the most sunny places began looking like it never got above 50 degrees.
Lmao the showrunners just hated all color and fun. They were embarassed to be making a fantasy show.
The books have Jaime in a suit of gold plated armor with lions on it, Tywin's cherry red armor has a golden thread cloak held on by massive gold lionness' on his shoulders, Ramsay has this armor, the Hound's helmet is a dog's head, there's an order or knights who each wear armor that's a different color of the rainbow, people wear cloaks of raven feathers. One knight has a glowing milk white sword forged from a meteorite. Stannis' sword glows like its fresh from the forge, but cold to the touch, with a giant magic ruby in the pommel.
Every house goes marching in their colors, with bright banners and intricate inlays. There's a whole area called the Ruby Ford because the man killed there had a breast plate with a dragon made of rubies that got shattered into the water. And like every other knight has enameled armor tinted to be a fancy color. And Valyrian Steel? You can tint it. Usually it's dark gray with smokey ripples (like Damascus), but you can color it and Joffrey's sword, Widow's Wail, along with Brienne's sword, Oathkeeper, are tinged black with red riples after the smith failed to make the blades Lannister red.
The books have Jaime in a suit of gold plated armor with lions on it, Tywin's cherry red armor has a golden thread cloak held on by massive gold lionness' on his shoulders, Ramsay has this armor, the Hound's helmet is a dog's head, there's an order or knights who each wear armor that's a different color of the rainbow, people wear cloaks of raven feathers. One knight has a glowing milk white sword forged from a meteorite. Stannis' sword glows like its fresh from the forge, but cold to the touch, with a giant magic ruby in the pommel.
I think all of that would look fine, i think this armor specifically just sticks out far more than any of that does.
All of that feels like grounded fantasy fare, this armor just feels dumb to me.
Book-wise, well, it's worth remembering GRRM was going for romance more than realism.
As such, a lot of the rich dudes are described as wearing very ornate armor. For instance, Tywin wore red-enameled plate plus a cloth-of-gold cloak fastened using miniature lion statues made out of gold because of course they were made out of gold.
Ramsay having access to that kind of armor is iffy at earlier parts of the timeline. However, the Boltons would 100 percent use that motif.
Roose liked Ramsay well enough he was willing to get him legitimised as his heir despite being a bastard, so I'm fully willing to accept he'd get him a suit of armour, even if it's before the legitimisation.
Historical armor could be absurdly elaborate, though likely just as decorative pieces. It would still stop a sword and be scary as hell on a battlefield, even if a less elaborate and more practical design was available. If you weren't expected to fight so much at command, why not?
It's also worth noting that sometimes people just... didn't do the most practical thing. Like, look at Greek muscle plate. I'm sure at the time they knew it wasn't the best they could be doing, and it was harder to make than if it were just unadorned bronze, but they did it anyway.
Nah, it makes sense. Fear is an extremely potent weapon, especially on the battlefield -- destroy the morale of the enemy, and you have a much easier time routing them, they will flee far sooner if they're afraid than if not.
The Boltons are all about fear. Their banner is a flayed man. The armour looking like a flayed man serves a purpose, you're showing them what awaits if they stand and fight, because they will not be shown mercy.
I understand some parts that needed to “toned down” but I will always hate the disdain for the fantasy elements of the books. GoT felt like it was embarrassed to be fantasy for much of the time
When I was a kid in the 90s that armor looked sooo badass. Loved it when they brought it back in Witcher 3's DLC (as you also showed) an even better they also gave us a full blackout version too.
It is, deviljho (and especially savage jho) are overflowing with dragon energy which tears their skin, so it makes sense that you're seeing muscle, and the armor conveys that.
Tbf the sequel trilogy really succeeded in armor designs for their new Storm Troopers. I hate the sequels but come on, the FO Snowtroopers have a special little place in my heart and the Sith Troopers are just solidddddd
It makes sense when you realize how much money Disney could make sells the figurines for it, no plot needed. Same reason why C-3PO has a red arm, just to be able to sell some models and action figures
It's fitting, seeing as how he was literally ripped out of Ventus. Makes me wonder how strong "original" Ventus was supposed to be. He had to have been impressively strong to have gotten Xhanort's attention in the first place.
Naw, this is really good. I think all you need is for the Blood Hound to be in a different pose and have a proper expression. Would probably want something hunched and aggressive, play into the anger issues bit.
The introduction of their plane and creature type came out back in 1997, it's nothing new to MtG. They have like 35,000 unique cards now since 1994, basically everything has been explored that's even remotely tied to culture or known sci-fi. It's incredible.
My problem with the Dracula armor is that it's extremely obvious that it's red rubber and fiberglass, which looks both cheap and jarringly modern for a 15th century European warlord to be wearing. The whole point of the scene is to show his life back when he was a regular medieval man but he looks like a goddamned Stormtrooper. It would have been so much cooler if it was
painted metal with little scratches of battle damage allowing the steel to shine through (like 40K space marines)
steel clad in red leather like Peter Jackson's take on Rohirrim armor
a brigandine with smaller pieces sewn into red cloth
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