[DarkJak2050]

Originally Posted by ZeroXSEED

Quoting my own fanfic:

Spoiler for LingYin:

But the thing that made me interested is the full armor appearance.

You see, most I.S. deliberately exposed its pilot, who are using very skimpy, Japanese old School model of Swimsuit.

The justification is because the special barrier protected the pilot, but some people still ask;

"If we can add that much armor with the legs and arms, why not vital parts?" they said; "Getting an umbrella before its raining"

The answer lies to the fact that the armor itself will hinder the activation of absolute defense. Which will be activated when the pilot is in grave danger…even if someone had their body injured because the armor hold most of the firepower, the absolute defense would not be activated.

The more exposed the pilot is to danger; the easier is the Absolute Defense to react. Yes, most I.S. using reverse logic to take the pilot into safety.

Second reason is that exposed human pilot prevent sporting/ testbed I.S. from being frightening that no matter how powerful the I.S. are, the humans are mostly ordinary human.

Add to the fact that most pilots are cute, beautiful or sexy girls, which would be good promotional value.

Yeah, the canon did not states WHY They did not put armor on torso, they just said that Armor is useless because of the Barrier. Yet we can see various weapon that can pierce through the barrier.

SO I try to make some justification using my weird troper's way of thinking. REVERSE LOGIC.

Attack + barrier protection = nil
Piercing Attack - (barrier + armor protection) = Injury
Piercing Attack - barrier protection = potentially grave injury = Absolute defense activation

And then we gone to miltiary I.S.

Spoiler for LingYin 2:

Military I.S. on the other hand, covers most of the pilot with armor. Not only to protect them from I.S. light and medium firepower without depending on the protective barrier and absolute defense.

It also gave inhuman appearance, lack of need for sympathy and distinguishable expression, and become the embodiment of sheer terror.

People in the film industry call this 'Gas mask effect', as masked soldier tend to be treated differently, and the audience bears no sympathy to them as the result.

We tropers call them Faceless Goons effect.

Yeah, who cares about those Imperial Stormtroopers? They LOOK inhuman in that white gas mask.

Well, I don't think I'll have to worry about the "Faceless Goons" effect as much with my OCs. They are going to have full combat armor, but they have their own individuality and have a human like appearance/qualities. Inside, or outside of their armor.

Take a look at the Carmine Brothers from Gears of War for an example:
Anthony Carmine
Benjamin Carmine
Clayton Carmine