In her recent post on the imbalanced gender representation of NPCs in Azeroth, Akabeko said:
In Cata we met the sweet Tol’vir cat dudes, who lacked for dudettes but not offspring (I like to think they reproduce by budding those magnificent pecs.)
which reminded me of something she said in her early-Cataclysm review of Uldum:
No female Tol’vir? Would it really be so hard to shrink their biceps, strap some watermelons to their chest, and bring it all together with a tastefully tattered leather bikini?
That quote — and the image it spawned in my brain — has been stuck in the back of my imagination for over a year now, so when her new post brought it to mind again, I really couldn’t delay putting it on paper any longer.
I have too much of a stylistic preference for more realistic anatomy, however, and the best I could manage was coconuts, not watermelons.
Then I started thinking about other NPC races that really ought to have females represented among them.
Male Tuskarr are so round and roly-poly that I bet female Tuskarr would give great hugs — perhaps the best hugs that any adventurer would ever get (at least until they meet the Pandaren)!
The male Broken model uses the same armature & animations as the male Tauren model, so it is really quite easy to imagine a female Broken by making similar alterations to the female Tauren armature.
I think the coconuts work just perfect! Sometimes I don’t notice the lack of female representation but I did in Uldum, so nice to see some Tol’vir ladies finally.
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OMG, the Tuskar lady is sooo cute! I would play one in an instant. ^_^
I would so play a Tuskarr in a heartbeat, too!
Azeroth needs those female Tuskars!
I love the bobble hats too. They should be transmog options.
Bobble hats would be such great fun to use for Transmogrification! We could all look like Jayne!
LOL @ the coconuts 🙂
Ogres need more females. I want to be an ogre female. I wonder how I get to have 2 heads.
Well, I thought “grapefruits” at first, but then I thought about how much larger in stature Tol’vir are than humans and decided that grapefruit would be a little too small, even for an A-cup Tol’vir dudette, and that “coconuts” were probably closer to the right size 😛
Oh yeah, Ogre women, too. I’d like to think that the cross-racial romances that created the Mok’nathal went both ways.
Damn! Those Tol’vir ladies are looking awesome. I love their armor and weapons! And awwww female Tuskarr ^_^ I love this!!
XD I’m so glad you like it!
Both of these gorgeous weapons drop in Uldum dungeons — the polearm carried by the tigergirl in guard armor, which is the same one carried by the in-game Ramkahen guards, drops in Lost City of the Tol’vir, and the staff carried by the leopardgirl in the priestess outfit drops in Halls of Origination.