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Scotty

Tedd's inspiration for FV5

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FV5 is pretty much the centerpiece of EGS, it's the basis for much of Elliot's female morphs if he's not trying to avoid that look. Ellen's the embodiment of it as well as it being her main beam spell. But aside from it being "17 year old Tedd's idea of a hot girl", where would he have gotten inspiration for how the form would look from?

Obvious source is probably TV, though I wonder if he'd also look at the people around him as well? Looking back, I do see 2 possible examples of people that could fit the FV5 description:

Nanase: Yes, the "Ugly Cousin", people here have theorized that Tedd may have been secretly attracted to Nanase and was hiding it by trying to distance himself with the ugly cousin statements. We do know that Tedd really does think highly of Nanase, and while he hasn't used the phrase in a while, he still doesn't seem to want to admit that Nanase is smokin'. A good example of Nanase being a natural (if you don't count magic boobs) FV5 would be a recent comic showing her and Ellen side by side, they really look like they have the same figure.

Carol Brown:  She's a local TV personality, and as with Elliot, Tedd probably didn't know Carol was Sarah's sister at the time he designed the form. A couple examples of her being a natural FV5 type would be when she appeared after the first fire dude fight, and probably more apparent when she arrived after Tara and Cheerleadra's tussle.

Any other possibilities for Tedd to get ideas from?

Edit: To elaborate more on the Nanase statement, I don't really think Tedd's attracted to Nanase in any "I want to do things with her" way, but in the link I gave, he did say how her being attractive made people more nice to her, so I would think that Tedd would probably come to believe that if his ideal female form looked more like Nanase, people would be nicer to him.

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Or, if Tedd wished something more anatomically correct, there is any number of magazines available with photos of real women in them. Not all of these are porn and some of them even have a selection of body types in them. Another source would be library books that discuss model photography and a third would be books that teach drawing and/or painting.

I would warn against anything drawn by Liefeld but thankfully the TF gun's safeties would prevent the target from being transformed into something that is anatomically incapable of surviving.

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14 hours ago, Scotty said:

Any other possibilities for Tedd to get ideas from?

Edit: To elaborate more on the Nanase statement, I don't really think Tedd's attracted to Nanase in any "I want to do things with her" way, but in the link I gave, he did say how her being attractive made people more nice to her, so I would think that Tedd would probably come to believe that if his ideal female form looked more like Nanase, people would be nicer to him.

You mean besides Noriko Verres?

It's a truism that most males are attracted to women that are either just like their moms or the polar opposite, which includes bodytype.

I think the shape of Fv5 has its roots in that hole Noriko left in Tedd's life.  Tedd had access to any number of graphic novels comic books etc that would have given him various bodytypes to select features from, but I think Norko provided the starting template. 

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52 minutes ago, Vorlonagent said:

You mean besides Noriko Verres?

It's a truism that most males are attracted to women that are either just like their moms or the polar opposite, which includes bodytype.

I think the shape of Fv5 has its roots in that hole Noriko left in Tedd's life.  Tedd had access to any number of graphic novels comic books etc that would have given him various bodytypes to select features from, but I think Norko provided the starting template. 

It's possible, the only evidence we have of Noriko's appearance is from a flashback, I would suspect that Tedd's memory of what his mom looked like might be deep in his subconscious and that he might not even realize that he designed the form in her image. I don't expect Edward to have kept any photos of Noriko out for people (including Tedd) to see.

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9 minutes ago, Scotty said:

Tedd's memory of what his mom looked like might be deep in his subconscious and that he might not even realize that he designed the form in her image.

The odds that he pulled out of his "deep memory" with out realizing it are fairly high.

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4 minutes ago, mlooney said:

The odds that he pulled out of his "deep memory" with out realizing it are fairly high.

Tedd was old enough to speak when Noriko left for good.  he's easily old enough to remember her in some way. 

It could be that Tedd referred to Nanase as "ugly cousin" not because he was attracted to her but because of the Noriko connection.

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