Well at least for the party I’d like a choice to refuse to wear what is provided altogether, or at least give “auntie” a piece of my mind about it.
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I would think that how our actions shape the Bearer’s personality and values are the more important thing to focus on than the Bearer’s fashion sense. 
Clothes are nice and all to choose, but I personally think it’s fine that they are simply three aesthetic options we are given, which still feel like they say a lot about the Bearer. On their first day, did they prefer to go with something familiar, like the jeans and shirt? Or did they try on the chiton in an attempt to blend in a bit easier or out of curiosity? Maybe they went with the combat outfit because they remembered what Cally said about the fighting and wanted to be prepared for anything?
I would bet a penny a thought passed in a number of our heads that were along the lines of “I think I’ll have my Bearer wear this because…” when we decided to choose their clothes. Maybe it would be neat to see the Bearer possibly gain an accessory that has sentimental value (like one of the characters closet to them gives them something that signifies a deep bond) but to me, the fact we think about why we will have our Bearer wear the clothes they do each day is enough.
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I’m basically the same age as MC and I would be grateful that anyone was presenting me clothing at all, let alone allow me to choose between three. Stepping into the shoes of my character, and like you said, we were living on the run. We likely had to change our styles a lot whilst moving place to place to avoid being recognized by the Seekers, but that’s just my own interpretation of it. I also assume most students have probably accumulated their own wardrobes from attending the school for as long as they have while we’re only just settling in. Ever hear of “making do” for a while? That’s what us poor people usually have to live by 
Who knows? Maybe if we win the Trials, we’ll be presented with the wardrobe to Narnia. 
Then we’ll have lots of options.
I’d just also like to point out that my absolute favorite WIP Guenevere never allows us to choose our appearance nor describes how we actually look, but it’s still a fantastic game. I think the beauty of CS games is that it’s up to us to imagine it in our heads, like a little movie we can be apart of. I like to think about it as if I’m the casting director. If there’s little details I imagine about my character (or others) that don’t necessarily have a choice to establish in-game, I just color in the blanks with my own imagination.
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Yep, I’ve had to do it for most of my childhood too and I was even stuck (due to a mom trying to do her best for me) at a high school where I was clearly one of the poorest kids around and let me tell you it sucked, sure it got me into a good university eventually but I can’t say I particularly enjoyed the experience as I did like clothes even back then. Also even at my absolute lowest point (clothes wise) the charity folks at least let me pick the pieces I liked best instead of providing three pre-chosen outfits.
And “Auntie” here both has some knowledge of our past preferences, before our wonderful life on the run, at least and most definitely isn’t poor and my mc really blames her for not even thinking to ask him and just dumping some unbelievably bland rubbish on him.
Again I’ll gladly “make do” at that party without the things she throws on our bed if I have to, or even could.
Yes, that’s the entirely opposite practice, but Guen at least is a princess and later Queen with lots of resources and a couple of personal seamstresses (at least in my headcanon).
Yes, maybe your MC may doesn’t care, but the ones of other people do. And in that position they have to work with what they have while trying to be consistent with the characterization of the own MC and if in that case it’s possible to use the limitations of the game for further worldbuilding, where is the problem?
Yeah, but Guenevere gives much more room to imagine what the characters wear and not nearly as much description in clothes and styles. The description of the formal dress for example is pretty straight forward with less possebilities to imagine it, from style, color to length. Guenevere is - as far as I remember - mostly vague about the clothes, expect some (one?) exceptions.
I also would like at least a chance for my female MC to chose to wear a suit insead of a dress, but I also can see why Rohie doesn’t want to go back to just add a cosmetic choice or even change it to put more text into that choices, when she could also work on the newer parts of the story. So I guess we will have to live with it…
Ooh, that’s quite an oversight in this gender-egalitarian community I say. I can see why Mara is possibly even more discontented by this than I am.
Funny that you should mention that, because in the trial you are fully able to refuse the weapon daddy dearest (at least that’s who I assume it’s from) tries to provide.
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This is Greece, Athena went to war wearing a dress under her armour.
Athena Promachos, is a formidable woman of course. I’d imagine she’s just as good with weapons as Ares and 1,000 times more intelligent.
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I’m aware and I also guessed/headcanoned that this is why it didn’t even occured to Athena to bring female MC a suit. Doesn’t change the preferences of at least one of my MCs.
What I got from this discussion is that seemingly your neither allowed to be somewhat discontent, nor allowed to have headcanons about how the own MC thinks about it if it helps to accept the limitations of the game. That’s at least how it comes across in some instances. 
That’s not meant to blame/offend anyone, just some instances of the whole discussion come across that way and seem rather obsolet.
I got ‘we-are-all-sharing-different-opinions-on-a-somewhat-random-matter-so-it-must-be-Friday-again’ from the clothes talk.
Jokes aside, it really is a matter of varying opinions in the end (just like everything else we bring into discussions). While having varying choices is fun, the way this particular story plays out makes the clothes thing not something some feel needs to be focused on as no one actually reacts to the clothes the Bearer wears in-game. It just doesn’t seem too much of a concern that even crossed a good deal of other players minds (not that there’s anything wrong with the fact it has crossed some minds either).
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And you still don’t get my problem with this specific discussion.
While I’m sure the reason for the overanalyzing lies in a wish for a different way of costumizing the clothes, latest after the author told us it will not get changed, the main points described shouldn’t have been treated like arguments for or against a change of the system we have now but more as ingame explanations for the limitations of which we as player know the reasons for but not the MC and which led to a dissonance for certain players and the way they play their characters.
But instead of going in the presented analyzes from that approach the only reactions were things along the line “I don’t think we need more costumations”. And that despite of some pretty good points about the way MC gets neglected by those that want the Bearer to fight for them.
That’s what annoys me about the discussion. The ignorance to some interesting interpretations and analyzes in favor to a discussion that is obsolet anyway, because -again - the author already said that she doesn’t want to change it.
Was that understandable enough?
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I apologize if I came off as flippant in my post (it was not my intention, I assure you).
But the moment the clothes topic was brought up, it looked like a topic that was going to go in that direction to begin with. As I said, it was clearly not something that crossed too many minds, and very few would really think too deeply about any possible implications (headcanon or otherwise) because it was not an important thing to any other the characters in the story (even the Bearer doesn’t seem to really care about how the clothes are handled). And if something seems unimportant to our own character, most players aren’t really going to care about it themselves. 
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At least @Rohie gave us clothes. Our mc’s could be butt-naked ass-out .
Imaging fighting naked, that shit wouldn’t be fun. Fighting you could trip and slide and be neutered or get neutered by sword (ouch:fearful:
) or a mage MC just popping off your body parts.Then it won’t be no milk, lemonade or fudge, cause we would be dead. Let’s Aeson found out in another life that we was ass out and died because we fall on a rock or sword naked. And if i m not died if they can’t sew:mask: on my body part shoot me! just freaking kill me!
And if your going after Calypso, believe me Ares don’t like us anyway, so he probably neutered us, for being to close to his daughter (butt-naked that is). (No offense to the nudist out their, question wear do nudist keep stuff, never mind never mind, I don’t want to know😫. Only if you say they have a bag😏
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If I recall, the ancient Greeks were far more okay with nudity than we are today (although I don’t think they actually went into battle nude, despite what all the marble carvings show). But I certainly don’t see Ares having a problem with it. In fact, now I kinda want a nudist MC 
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yeah, I was talking about people talking about the clothes and not having this and that, I mean not everyone plays fair lol. But if we could go nude hey I wouldn’t say no, probably pick that lol. Honestly when I wrote that I was thinking that, probably run around the campus nude, simply for no reason just felt like it ( all I can say stop bring the worst out in me). But tripping a falling naked definitely not option for especially when being a boy ( just say I had a bad experience ( fell down a flight of stairs, just please don’t ask me why)
. If it sounds good doesn’t always mean it will in like that.
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Speaking of refusing stuff, I’m much more surprised that Lavei would so readily cut their hand and sacrifice some of their blood when asked by the gods. Especially if you’ve been playing a character who has consistently refused their demands whenever possible up to this point. Considering how you can refuse the weapon offered soon thereafter, they seemed to accept it quite readily. I guess Lavei is susceptible to group pressure?
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First I never ask for more choices at all! I only expressed how my characters felt about it in a rpg sense. I would be happy with this choices even if I would preferred instead of being forced to choose the generic stuff Athena looked for us in the charity shop Being offered go to a shopping and choose between the same choices already in the text and let all super vage . This way each of us can have a head canon
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Well the way it currently stands it would be preferable to just wear nothing to the more academic classes and reserve the t-shirt and jeans for the ceremony. 
If I’ve got to be the worst-dressed person in the school I’d like to do it on my own terms.
That’s what I said, if she cares that much about what we wear to the party she could have let us really choose something instead of two generic outfits by taking us “shopping” and having basically the same two options but leaving the text even more vague.
True, especially when asked to by “dad” since I assume they just use it to somehow get us that weapon I just refuse anyway (and likely for other more nefarious purposes). I’d also have liked to respond to their ceremony statement by saying that I didn’t accept them.
Haha, you’re just roasting hard-core! Damn, you basically said we all looked raggedy walking around I’m dead. I looked fancy in my tux though. 
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This scene suddenly played out in my mind:
Athena: This dress comes from my personal collection; in fact, it’s one of my favourites…
Mara: You mean it’s… second-hand?
Athena: Well, I suppose you could say…
Mara: I hate you. AND THE CHIPMUNK!
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I think that to look fancy you’d need to have at least a few accessories to go with it. At the minimum you’d need cuff-links and a nice watch to go with it as a guy, which the mc hasn’t got. At some events I’ve been to those things were what set the male guests apart from the wait-staff, so in our boring suit I think we just look like the hired help and I’m really not going to attempt to borrow anything from our roommate, as that would just make it even worse. If my mc had known days or weeks in advance, instead of at the last minute, he could at least have tried to ask them or else raid Aeson or Adonis’s things for some nice accessories. But, as usual, we get left out of every loop on purpose. 
Your mc can certainly feel fancy though but mine really doesn’t.
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