Lezard Valeth and Ernest Raviede = ?!
To start with: I am not crazy. I think.
So...Something has been irking me for a while about the design of one of my favorite characters in Suikoden V. I know I'd seen something like it before, but I just couldn't place it. And then, looking through some Tri-Ace artwork in a videogame gallery today, it hit me like a ton of bricks:
Is it just me who thinks it looks like someone threw Lezard and Ernest into a blender, and Zweig was the incredibly gorgeous result?
Consider not only the damning physical evidence, but also how weirdly their personalities match. Like Ernest, Zweig is an archeologist/glorified treasure hunter who is rather ...obsessive about exploring various ruins. He's got the same kind of attitude, too. And he even has a much younger female accomplice following him - though unlike Lorelai, Opera's more interested in Ernest himself than any of the ruins he drags her to. ^^;
And Lezard...Well, just the sheer obsessessiveness and nerdiness. And the hair. And the penchant for keeping laboritories. And the fashion sense- they both have decided to rock the "short, well-padded coats with puffy pants tucked into boots" look - rather questionable, but wahey, it works for them. It's kind of geeky archeologist chic, I suppose, but I digress....
So....Am I crazy? Or does anyone else kind of see it, too? It's certainly an amusing coincidink, IMO. ^^; I'm laughing at it, anyway. (Ah, for the record, I should probably say I doubt Konami ripped Enix off, but well, I STILL think the resemblence is funny.)
And the sad thing is, I'm quite sure that someplace, somewhere, on the big old internet, there is an MPREG fanfic that explains it all. :p
So...Something has been irking me for a while about the design of one of my favorite characters in Suikoden V. I know I'd seen something like it before, but I just couldn't place it. And then, looking through some Tri-Ace artwork in a videogame gallery today, it hit me like a ton of bricks:
Is it just me who thinks it looks like someone threw Lezard and Ernest into a blender, and Zweig was the incredibly gorgeous result?
Consider not only the damning physical evidence, but also how weirdly their personalities match. Like Ernest, Zweig is an archeologist/glorified treasure hunter who is rather ...obsessive about exploring various ruins. He's got the same kind of attitude, too. And he even has a much younger female accomplice following him - though unlike Lorelai, Opera's more interested in Ernest himself than any of the ruins he drags her to. ^^;
And Lezard...Well, just the sheer obsessessiveness and nerdiness. And the hair. And the penchant for keeping laboritories. And the fashion sense- they both have decided to rock the "short, well-padded coats with puffy pants tucked into boots" look - rather questionable, but wahey, it works for them. It's kind of geeky archeologist chic, I suppose, but I digress....
So....Am I crazy? Or does anyone else kind of see it, too? It's certainly an amusing coincidink, IMO. ^^; I'm laughing at it, anyway. (Ah, for the record, I should probably say I doubt Konami ripped Enix off, but well, I STILL think the resemblence is funny.)
And the sad thing is, I'm quite sure that someplace, somewhere, on the big old internet, there is an MPREG fanfic that explains it all. :p