Smokin' Hot Glamour Shot (And Other Armour Reviews) 

Buy the Millennial Mage epub/paperback here: amazon.com/dp/B0BX4KLJPZ Audiobook (Audible version): audible.com/pd/Mageling-Audiobook/B0C2QMVXC7 Hope you enjoyed this week's 'Jill has no idea who any of these people are but that just makes it funnier' armour review. See you soon! (Oh, and if you haven't read it already, here is another Fantasy Heroine snippet, with more Leo and Robin, because...who doesn't love those two.) www.jillbearup.com/2023/03/its-ten-of-clock-do-you-know-where-your.html

I feel we need something along the lines of "Young lady, you are NOT leaving this house wearing that!" category.

Amiri saw the scars on surviving warriors from her tribe, and decided to armor those points most heavily.

For Casca (from what I remember), she was part of a mercenary band where the armor you had was whatever you could afford, and while the mercenary group was successful, it wasn't hugely profitable. Thus, there was a lot of "whatever you can scavenge off the battlefield", eventually upgraded to, "Wow! You got actual armor of your own!" Casca, being one of the higher-ranked members, was one of the first to get armor of her own, and clearly knows what to focus on.

A little note about Casca. The picture is her "off duty" armor, the she uses when she is in camp or in low risk situation. In proper battle, she uses a full plate armor kit, with a little bit of chainmail on the upper arms and thighs.

1:42 "Young lady, I do not know where to begin. You young man are similarly inexplicable, but at least you got clothes?" Ah yes, the dichotomy of gendered armour in video games!

I feel like many of the Stab me now class would be better just wearing a decorative sticky bun and calling it a day.

Spacesuit note: Having them basically "suctioned on" (skin tight) is a functional thing. If you're going to need to be protected from vacuum (which is job #1 of a spacesuit), then you need to provide pressure. That can either be done by filling the suit with gas, turning it into a balloon which is very hard to move in, or by literally making the suit fit tightly. It's a "don't die" thing. Also, tight suits are more sexy ;)

"Less emboobened." Lovely turn of phrase.

💖✨ This weekend, my daughter clad in pink got to meet an R2 unit that was adorned in pink at a comicon. She got to see people wearing all variety of cosplay and she quietly told me "I want a creepy costume."

The thing with Mordred is that you could just grab her horns and take her helmet off, but I feel like she's too intimidating so I'd never try

2 notes for Mass Effect: yes, they have helmets and do actually wear them in combat situations and environmental hazards. It's quite neat. Second, you can usually change the color scheme of armor, so I don't know if that ought to be a factor

Jill, your snarky sharp ridicule of fan service characters that obviously get dressed in the dark is exactly what I needed to get through this Monday. Thank you very sincerely.

The Byleth reaction was everything I had hoped.

You don’t need to breath. Especially if you have the Illusive man and billions of dollars invested into reaper tech to resurrect Shepard. “You were dead!” “I got better…”

Glad Mordred’s armor was rated so highly. It’s such a cool look, but it always struck me as practical as well. And yes, that is THE Mordred from Arthurian legend, but since it’s the Fate series I will take no further questions.

I... I absolutely love what you said for Amiri cause it could totally be what actually go through her head when she "armored" herself, and some of what you said (the sword part specifically) is actually what she thought while looting it... That was just soo good, thanks for that Jill, and all your work too !!

I feel like Mass Effect generally has good armor designs as far as it goes, but yeah the boob armor in a space suit is just insane.

4:16 The stretchy stuff is space suit material, since the Mass Effect suits are specifically environmentally sealed space armor (several scenes throughout the game take place in vaccum/spacewalk environments.

I was reading Millennial Mage today at work and a friend asked me why? (They didn't think it was my sort of thing) I said "Because Jill Bearup made me!" and she went "Just stab me now" with a totally straight face, I knew there was a reason I liked her :)

For the Mass Effect 'suctioned on' look I assume it's meant to be justified by the fact they are also pressure suits for vacuum exposure. The stomach patch on the practical looking one strikes me as looking a bit like some kit to 'inflate' the soft area and apply pressure to the torso underneath, just in a far more compact way than the big ungainly spacesuits we use these days. Same with Ashley, though I do really hate the boob plate on those armours

That last one! Totally ridiculous. . It looks like she had someone lash bundles of ...stuff... to her calves and forearms. I'm going to check out the book next. It sounds like it will fill in a few minutes till "One Crisis At A Time" is available!

Sparkle! ✨️🎇 I definitely need to read something described as "magic Australia". I absolutely love how the world has decided we Aussies live in nature's weird murder pit. 😂

What's wild about Byleth's outfit is that's their default look. In battle they typically wear the standard uniform of whatever class they happen to be in (even though their default is what shows up in cutscenes because budget). So while they can wear that stuff into combat, it's more representative of what they were while teaching. So yeah...professor female Byleth certainly made some...choices... XD

✨Please read the video description... ✨ It is better than the usual Bla Bla Bla... Also @2:22 is that a real 2005 era cell phone? One that Fits in you back pocket and don't crack when you sit or bend? ❤‍🔥

4:27 She worked *hard* to get a stomach that flat and darn it you're all going to *notice*, even if it kills her, which it might, because she has no armour over it. 8:53 Can she *lift* that sword? Unless she has magical powers it seems she's most likely to injure her opponent if she lets the sword topple forward onto them. [Edit :] ✨

Lol! I'm sad to say that if Pathfinder: Kingmaker is anything to go by that is entirely a correct assumption about Ameri. "Look at me do something stupid nobody in their right mind would do so that I can prove how superhumanly strong and brave I am." Is like 60% of her personality. She'd probably wear the title "Just stab me now!" as a mark of pride. The really impressive thing is how she somehow makes this a charming personality quirk.

Some ✨ sparkles ✨ for you, Jill, because I always read the description and this one made me giggle.

Thanks for reviewing Casca! I didn't realize the other pic was fanart. My bad 😅 And no, she's not wearing stilettos (or wedges) 😁

You sold me on that book. Your delivery was perfect.

Great video as usual! But yes, on the Mass Effect armour, they do include helmets. There's a lot of dialogue in the game and a lot of expressiveness (plus, the main character was customizable and the character faces were pretty well done for the time), so there's an option in the game to turn the helmets off. They are technically almost always there, you just can't see them P.S. That book sounds really good, I'm going to check it out!

Your analysis on Casca is spot on, thanks for that. I am happy like to inform you that her boot heels are indeed practical and suited for riding as the Band of the Hawk is primarily a light raiding cavalry force throughout their tenure in the series. Their mercenary group is rather poor in the beginning and so has to make do with piecemeal armor which they slowly build up and replace over the course of the series. Continually staying practical with a hint of fantastical in it. Casca is generally one of the more sensibly armed and armored characters when introduced.

✨ Brilliant! ✨ And another book goes onto the TBR. 😊

🌟✨️💖 Jill, you're awesome. I love your videos. I miss your "Fantasy Heroine" skits, but I'm waiting (impatiently) for the novel! Keep being awesome!

The first Mass Effect outfit is, I believe, a mechanical counterpressure suit. If you want to go into space without having to wear a Stay Puft Marshmallow Man custom, you can use elastic instead of air to apply pressure to your squishy bits so that the vacuum doesn't unalive you.

The story with Amiri is that she came from a tribe of mammoth hunters which didn’t have women in leadership positions, so she went out hunting alone, in defiance. She got that helicopter blade of a sword off a giant, for whom it was a typical arming sword. Because it’s ludicrously oversized for her, she developed a fighting style that involved lots of upper body rotation, thus the bare midriff. She appears in the CRPG Pathfinder: Kingmaker, where her battlecry is “Look at me, Gorum!”, which is a lot like the “Witness me!” guys from Mad Max: Fury Road, only she’s talking to her preferred deity, a god of glory in combat. Her game class is Barbarian, which means she’s like the legends of Norse berserkers, or the warp-spasm that Cuchulainn was supposed to have displayed. Basically, she gets super angry and hulks out. On Critical Role, barbarians often say “I would like to rage.” to let the DM know when they’re using that power. It’s an oddly polite way of announcing that you’re about to lose your sh¡t.

"She's really quite brilliant, and so most of her conversations are with herself." Hmm, who else do we know who fits that description...? :D

A big part of Mass Effect armor is it includes the very sci-fi addition of kinetic barriers, or shields. Which is just basically space magic, but yeah. And the armor on the left is "technically" geared towards exploration rather than combat. So it's not as protective, until you start getting into some higher tiered armor later in the game, but I digress.

The fact that you threw in not one, but two Pathfinder Iconics has made my day. Thank you

✨Your videos are always such a mood boost! ✨

Seeing that you reviewed the armors of Sarah Ryder (the plain looking girl in the white armor) and Ashley Williams (Glamour Girl) It'd be nice to see your opinion on other ME ladies such as Tali, Samara/Mornith, etc.

Some of Wayne Reynold's (W.A.R.) art is so very realistic and protective and some of the armor is definitely just stab me now. Love this series of videos.

✨✨✨✨✨ thanks for giving me something fun and lighthearted to watch after my stressful furnace inspection!

✨ Always a pleasure to see one of these. Not sure how judging the Mass Effect armour based on colour is reasonable though, as that can be altered by player....

I need a “Time to commit cooking” hoodie as I don’t commit sewing.

Ashley, the one on the right for Mass Effect, actually was doing a lot of PR for the war effort at that point in the story, so I say good job for them.

I just read the most recent chapter of Millennial Mage on royal road and then I see this sponsorships. For a moment it felt like a hallucination, lol. For everyone, if you like fantasy and characters exploring magic, read it, it's pretty good.

hehe "enboobened" Welcome to my vocabulary.

I love your hair! I so wish mine would do that! Great to have you back!

When it comes to Mass Effect, Ashley Williams (Mass Effect 1-3) on the right is part of the human military, while Sarah Ryder (Mass Effect: Andromeda) on the left is part of a privately funded colonization project to the Andromeda galaxy. Sarah's outfit is the starting outfit and isn't really designed to protect against weapons, but to protect against various hazards while exploring space while also providing mobility. It is pretty much just a jumpsuit that also works as your space suit. You find armour similar to what Ashley wears later on in the game.

A mage with over whelming student loans is a good backstory, with debt collector after them.

I'm pretty sure you nailed Amiri from Pathfinder's thought process. She's a barbarian and they generally don't wear much armor.

That was honestly the most effective and entertaining way of advertising a book I've seen on RU-vid. Instant purchase. ...Also my daughter and I love the channel.

After a few years of not reading, due to work related shenanigans, I'm finally getting back into it, so I'll definitely add Millennial Mage to my potential reading list... Just need to get through Mistborn and a few other books that my friends have recommended to me first. Also, yay! Another armour tier list!

Millennial Mage is really good. For what it's worth, I'll recommend it as well.

Ya know I really thought byleth would fall into the not actually armor category since most of the time they are just wearing that attire as they teach a class, but now that you point out all the armory bits just stab me now makes a lot of sense.

✨ I like sparkles, too, Jill. (I checked out the description because someone pointed it out, and now here I am, enjoying sparkles!)

Like always, i loved your video (and thank you for the snippet, it was soo good XD). Until next time ;)

As promised/threatened: 1:07 those spiky foot coverings make me think her mount isn't a horse. A dragon, perhaps, or something similarly thick-skinned? 1:33 makes me think there's a necromancer with a sense of humour. 2:00 those leggings remind me of early 90s goth/rock clothing, in a good way. Most things about that outfit do, in fact. Perhaps she's off to Whitby for the weekend? She'd fit right in. (Obligatory video link ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-S_NqVd5Wqv0.html ) 4:45 I'm totally with you on that. Right-hand photo: product of an hour in hair & make-up before the promo shoot. Left-hand: after a month in the field living on processed soya and urine resyk. 5:25 sounds a lot like the yew tree. Everything is poisonous except the berries but including the seeds, so make sure you get every single one out! Or just don't eat them. 6:30 very cuirassier, although a brief search doesn't find an example with that much arm armour but nothing below the waist. 8:08 if that isn't self-referential, it really should be 😉 9:07 I really can't add anything here. That outfit is completely hatstand. And Millennial Mage sounds interesting! I see the Kindle version is included with Kindle Unlimited, so (if you're a subscriber) there's really no excuse not to read it ...

Nice to see Jill wearing her Just Stab Me Now hoodie. Mine arrived today and I LOVE it! 💖

I wanted to listen to the audiobooks of this thank you so much for those links!!

Oooooo I'd love to see you review the armor from The Expanse! They went so hard with the scientific realism, but I really don't know much about armor so I have no idea what tier it would be.

To be fair for Amiri, that is perfectly in character ahahahahah.

I've gotten back into writing my own novels on Royal Road since so many of the people's stories I've read there have gotten published. Maybe there's hope for me, too.

The first Mass Effect one, where you commented on the bit at the stomach you thought was weird. Looks like part a a fighter pilot's G-suit to me, made to tighten up during high G flight and keep blood in the torso and head, rather than draining to the feet. Helps keep them conscious in combat, which is a benefit

Not only is your content entertaining, but your voice is also so kind of soothing.

Love how your samples for Mass Effect were both (or all four, if we count the two that showed for a few seconds) actually armor, because there are certainly outfits in those games that I can only shake my head at (Ashley's combat dress in ME3, Miranda... all the time, or Jacob if you want to go for a male not-actually-armor-but-I-wear-it-into-combat). Granted, it's sci-fi and everybody has shields of one fashion or another, but... some outfits are very clearly eye candy.

Still confused as to why...at 6:39..."the next piece of armour you might want"...is..."just DEPENDS." I understand that some of these characters may actually NEED adult diapers, but in ranking of priority of protection, shouldn't they be farther down on the list?

You can take my hi-lo gowns from me over my dead body. I love the swoop of a skirt and hate the part where that swoop is in front of my legs and getting tangled up, and the part of my life where I'll wear a hoop is looooong over.

On Mass Effect: Yes, they have helmets and in-game they do appear in combat/hazard areas. They also get shields, so the suits are typically more for environmental protection than as armor.

I can admit that the Australia bit is terrifyingly correct and hilarious 😂😅🤦🏻‍♀️

As with most things in the Fate franchise, Mordred's morality is...complicated. She's the protagonist (sorta) in Apocrypha, but definitely fits the bill for anti-hero. She's temperamental, cruel, and has the most Leroy Jenkins energy possible. She's also one of the best characters in the Fate franchise and someone needs to give her a hug.

Finally got around to ordering the hoodies. Great video, by the by.

It's not "Biscuits and American biscuits" it's cookies and biscuits. Just call a cookie a cookie so we don't confuse it with actual biscuits!

Hmm. There might be a whole series here. Just dealing with DnD / Pathfinder art.

Went for the audiobook version and author and narrator make a good team. Oh yes, your videos are pretty good as well. Educate and amuse at the same time. 👍

I so like your style in these videos ✨

The point you made is hilarious cause I think that's actually canon, when Ashley Williams becomes a SPECTRE, correct me if I'm wrong, unlike Shepherd she gets sent on Publicity tours to raise up support for the war effort. And while the Ryders would've been serving before that, I can easily see them doubling down into Military Service after seeing either Shepherd or Ashley on a poster. Edit - YO!!!!!!! Casca!!!!

✨🦒💨🤺✨ love your armor ranking videos 👍🏼 that book sounds like a good read ☕️

Excellent, and also the first time I've bought the Sponsor object while still watching the Sponsored video. :D

Thanks for the book recommendation I will get a copy. love your tier lists, always fun to listen to.

No, Casca does not wear much on heels or stiletto's (I am sure that I am spelling that wrong, but as it is the morning and I have yet to have a coffee... eh). The shoes in that manga are actually historically accurate because even the men have a bit of heel. In that time the men and women had a bit of heel because they did not want to dirty themselves of dirt and mud. Thank you so much for the video, I have now been a subscriber for about 3-5 years, you videos have always been awesome. Much love from montreal, canada.

Bit late for ☘but ❇ ❇ ❇

✨️✨️Your videos always make my day better✨️✨️

✨ I think there actually are questions about Amiri's sanity in the fiction, but it's been a while since I've read it. Also: nice tease! ✨

From what I know of Byleth's game (3 Houses), it's mostly about trying to snog either Depressed Blonde Boy (tm) or Funny Tan Boy (tm), both of whom are your students because you're a teacher in a school. So that's why both Byleths are dressed like they're going for a night on the town

I am always seriously amused by the gigantic sword trope. it tells me the character designer has never done manual labor since they have no grasp of the kind of emburdening and inertia they are saddling the character with.

Great video. I definitely personally got hooked because I am a huge fan of Fate and the first review in this was of Mordred. Would love to see more tier lists like this, and I'm already scavenging the channel for them LOL.

In the Mass Effect ones, the left side was more for exploration than military (Andromeda). It was made to protect from environmental hazards, and be semi useful in a firefight in case you meet aliens and they're not friendly. Hence the squishy bits for comfort, and mobility. The right was from 3, which was all out war. Definitely military armor, but more for a modern special operator than a frontline soldier in open battle.

I have never been so hyped for a sponsorship! My friend wrote the book!!🎉

Always great fun to watch these! As for further armour analysis (though I'm sure you have enough already), the Republic Commando katarn armour from the eponymous game (2005) would be an interesting choice - one of my favourite armour designs! You could find further examples in Battlefront 2 (2017), Bad Batch and fan film Shadow of The Republic for extra analysis, if you wanted. (Edit: ✨)

✨🎇✨ Sounds like an interesting book, just ordered a copy, should be here in time for the weekend, though I'm currently rereading the Honor Harrington books so I might wait until I've finished the current one. 📖📖

I like sparkles too. ✨ My wife won't let me put sparkles on our chickens, though I think they would enhance our farm videos' viewership. I also think our hens who need protection from the roo and are thus getting "saddles" should have them embossed with plate.

✨ for another terrific armor video. always love these ✨

I love your videos, I've learned so much about world building and armour in general. ✨ I've started referencing you in discussions with my friends now, so well done. ✨You are an authority in the geekiest of circles!

I thoroughly enjoyed the many hairstyles of Jill. It's very nice when you have such gorgeous hair that you can do anything with it!

"Less enboobined" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I'm stealing this word. It phenomenal

Another delightful jaunt through the degrees of Armour and invitations for stabbing. Also I appreciate you really committing to your sponsor throughout with the quotes and explanations. Due to your foray into writing, will you be updating your merch store, possibly with some options for "The plot, it goeth thusly"?

4:08 Helmets in Mass Effect are a "toggle on/off" option. They generally provide full coverage or leave the lower half of the face exposed. Unless you're in an area without a breathable atmosphere, in which case they close up the bottom half of the face.

The thing mass effect does really well, and it is hard to see in a still image (2 and 3 at least, especially in legendary), is that it's clear things are made of different materials. There are hard plates, but there's a lot of segmentation, and many areas are covered with felxible or at least semi flexible materials. It isn't always done perfectly, but when you see them in motion it's clear they've given proper thought to "there's a person in this, it needs to move". Plus people having sheilds covers the excuse for the not actually armour elements.