Talk:Ryougi Shiki (Assassin)/@comment-32613109-20180208131256/@comment-28209103-20180209154146

First thing first, context. That Ascension potrait are accompanied by dialouge stating that she is taking a break in what supposed to be her Room on chaldea, It is not just an ascension Art but maybe closer to illustration of what we see when we visit Shiki room one day. Simply put it's to illustrate that she had settled down in Chaldea for real.

Secondly, this is my opinion but it is not supposed to appeal to her cutesy side, for one the purpose of the art is to send a callback to us fan by teasing what we know from KnK, that is the Haagen Dasz ice cream and the bottle of Volvic lying on the floor, related to first point are the sign that this is indeed Shiki like what we know.

Then there's no doubt that this arts are sensual not cute in nature and the choice fell to the artist in this case when they wanted to draw it like that.

I don't want to describe it at full lenght lest I sound pretentious but IMO this picture sent us a clear message successfully, it try to potray Shiki as someone who are unaware of her own charm and sexual attraction, there's contrast between bold and innocence. Taken in context this means that the potrait are succesfull in describing a lot about Shiki in a single glance, more than any picture for cutesy or erotic sake can do.

Just try do this by yourself to understand my point, in FGO alone how many Final Ascension illustration could show us an aspect of that character within the image rather than just mere fanservice or rule of cool? Art are something to be taken in context and knowing the servant IMO only Shiki, Penthesilea, Brock (Fergus), Gilles Saber, Leonidas and Munenori showed us something from their character in their FA within a glance..

Then again this is a Mobage based on Eroge,, it might be unrealistic to hope for such thing from most of the servant. which is why not-suprisingly most of those with good potrayal are Male..