03-31-2021, 09:53 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-24-2022, 03:03 PM by ZpaceJ0ck0.
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King has been revealed for The King of Fighters XV.
EDIT: so I noticed people talking about her current design, about how they miss the more androgynous-looking King and how SNK is "sexualizing" the character in recent years. I should state that It's perfectly OK if you prefer the more androgynous King, but I feel people are missing the point of the design. They are forgetting (if not straight up IGNORING) the reason why she looked androgynous in the first place.
In Art of Fighting, King was crossdresing as male because she worked as a bouncer for Mr. Big (who was and still is a crime lord). She was crossdressing because she wanted to hide her identity AND because she thought she would be taken more seriously as a bouncer if she pretended to be a man. Then her secret was exposed and the rest is history. AOF 1 is canon to the events of KOF.
In the KOF series, one of her story threads is how she becomes more and more comfortable with her feminity. By dressing in ways that are considered traditionally more "feminine". Nobody is forcing her to do that, King is doing this on her own accord. Plus, she no longer works as a bouncer for Mr. Big. She now runs a legitimate business as a Bar owner/bartender. She no longer has a reason to hide her identity.
And besides its not like she's dressing like Mai Shiranui or Angel. Her costume is pretty conservative. So I don't get why people are making these "sexualization" claims in the first place.
EDIT: so I noticed people talking about her current design, about how they miss the more androgynous-looking King and how SNK is "sexualizing" the character in recent years. I should state that It's perfectly OK if you prefer the more androgynous King, but I feel people are missing the point of the design. They are forgetting (if not straight up IGNORING) the reason why she looked androgynous in the first place.
In Art of Fighting, King was crossdresing as male because she worked as a bouncer for Mr. Big (who was and still is a crime lord). She was crossdressing because she wanted to hide her identity AND because she thought she would be taken more seriously as a bouncer if she pretended to be a man. Then her secret was exposed and the rest is history. AOF 1 is canon to the events of KOF.
In the KOF series, one of her story threads is how she becomes more and more comfortable with her feminity. By dressing in ways that are considered traditionally more "feminine". Nobody is forcing her to do that, King is doing this on her own accord. Plus, she no longer works as a bouncer for Mr. Big. She now runs a legitimate business as a Bar owner/bartender. She no longer has a reason to hide her identity.
And besides its not like she's dressing like Mai Shiranui or Angel. Her costume is pretty conservative. So I don't get why people are making these "sexualization" claims in the first place.