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Sony Online Seeking Queen of Everquest II
KingSkippus writes "Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) and Stuff Magazine is seeking a real life look-alike for Everquest II's Antonia Bayle, Queen of Qeynos. In preparation, it has launched a Web site that will go live on May 17. The winner will receive a modeling contract with SOE and a photo spread in Stuff Magazine. Perhaps pictures would make lucrative auction items as well?"
Wow, just from that title it looks like Sony's getting lonely.
Anyone else notice that "Antonia's" body proportions have gotten slightly more realistic over the years, and her footwear more practical, as SOE slowly figured out that their gaming audience was not exclusively 12-year old boys?
On the original EQ box, she had hips that were easilly double the width of her mid-rift, massive globes of DD-cup flesh pressing against the bust-line, and was impossibly standing in a field of grass with spike-heel boots on while gently clinging to her staff as if it were a phallus.
With each iteration, her heels got lower (until the became flat soles), her figure (while still in absurd supermodel proportions) looked less and less like a barbie doll, her hair got shorter and darker.
It's perhaps the first time in computer game history that a central female character actually became less "sexed up" over time.
By the time EQ2 comes out, she will probably be slightly overweight, wearing Birkinstock sandals, ragged jeans, and a Megatokyo t-shirt.