@timur: When your sarcasm gets lost and instead you get honest, articulate responses in both concurrence and dissent, it might be better to just roll with it.
Then we will have debates arising for "people of other races" character DLC.
*controversy*
I just assume Agent Wilkes is mostly Arabic, DJ Scully is Asian and Mr. Foster is black. :V
Don't most characters in the game wear masks? Adding a female would basically be giving a male character model a female voice, height reduction, and lumps on his chest.
I'd say more narrower shoulders than lumps on chest, at least for any of the armoured characters. (Ms. Foster and "Dana" Scully would probably call for pretty noticeable changes though.)
Also wrt
beating the dead horse until the green maggoty goo comes out its rear end and splatters everybody and we all smell like it the rest of the day patriarchy: Hey, I've
pulled that stupid condescending chivalry bullcrap in the recent past before realizing what I was doing. :/ Some of the things I've downmodded in this thread were things I very easily could have seen myself saying six or seven years ago... maybe I'm just projecting my own latent thoughts, but we're all coming from somewhere, right?
Anyway, this is all getting horribly abstract and political. Let's open things up for
specific character suggestions!
Mrs. Byng
Agent Wilkes' landlady. He's late on his rent (along with a good deal of fire and weird chemical damage that his deposit didn't cover - incidentally, she hasn't seen him since such damage was incurred), and she ended up inadvertently escaping the specimen menace when she went out chasing him down for it.
Appearance: A cranky little old lady in a green floral dress and really oldschool WWI gas mask, a hand-me-down from her late father-in-law. I know characters are purely cosmetic and don't grant any abilities, but I keep imagining her as a medic or support with an axe.
Voice: Southern rural England homesteader
Lt. Col. Fournier
After a long, ugly tour in Kefiristan she decided to take a road trip out to the countryside for a well deserved R&R... only to find the owners of the B&B she booked resting a much deeper slumber.
Appearance: Camo fatigues, Kevlar vest, hair in a bun.
Voice: Impeccable RP, like she's convinced she'd get a truckload of crawlers dumped on her if her speech were to lapse into anything else.
Barrister Ingram
After years of facing her brutal examinations and relentless procedural demands in three separate class actions for what they've done to the local environment, Horzine one day, in the middle of the trial, decided that they didn't give a damn about making admissions through conduct or incurring further tort liability and just settled things the old-fashioned, court-contemptuous, specimen-infested way.
Appearance: Barrister's robes and wig. Part of the robes wrapped around her face to keep the fumes out. Bag strapped to her back with papers half spilling out.
Voice: Distaff counterpart of the voice used for Wilkes and Thorne.
