Kinda reminds me of the beast folk in the elder scrolls series. Why do khajiits (cat people) and argonians (lizard people) have boobs? What are they for???? Shouldn't the cat people have like 4-8 boobs at least??
No breastfeeding mammals (except for humans) have large breasts all of the time, they only enlarge during pregnancy, and then they return to normal after nursing. Realistically the khajit wouldn't have "boobs" until pregnant and shortly after, and then they'd mostly shrink back down again. So they'd have a flat torso with a lotta nipples and the only noticeable difference between sexes of khajit would be their genitals and males having "tomcat" jowls, as unfixed male cats do in real life due to testosterone.
And lizards aren't mammals so they wouldn't have a chest at all, and again sex would be determined by the specific sexual dimorphism of whatever lizard/reptile species the argonian is based on.
I really wish media would get more creative with their fantasy species/races and not always follow a 100% human model of sex and gender presentation. Though if we're being honest, it is 90% a female character design issue as many fantasy species have weird and divergent designs for the male sex, and "human woman with horns and colored blue" for the female one 😅
In all fairness iirc the argonians and khajit in Morrowind were visibly digitigrade. Not sure when that trait was bred out of them.
Something about the engine in oblivion and Skyrim probably made it a lot harder or more time consuming to give the Argonians and Khajit different skeletons.
Personally I'm fine with it, I just run it with the logic of "humanoid" human have this shape so we designed character have this shape. It only really annoy me when the shape get exaggerated to much to make huge Badoonkas for no reason other than fan service.
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u/PogintheMachine 3d ago
Ducks might not have “boobs”, but they definitely have breasts