You're doing alot of ignoring just to arrive at gender tropes to be the reason that someone's wearing heels Lili always looks like a rich girl, Hwoarang some form of street thug, Heihachi, Law, Feng, they're always going to be wearing some kind of martial arts attire. Ling has rarely ever deviated from her basic design scheme, neither has Asuka. Or Jin from his regular self in Tekken 3 to all sorts of shady edge stuff up until now. Kazuya has gone from wearing fighting attire to consistently looking like a Yakuza lord. Tekken is a game that doesn't take itself seriously, but the characters do follow a general design scheme pertaining to their personalities and evolutions, they always have. She is NOT about to beat this mother fucker in unarmed combat. How is it interesting? It's a tiresome cliché. I'd react to a dude in a clown nose kind of the same way I would to a "fighter" in high heels. It's great if you like wearing them because they make you feel tall or whatever, but calling it a symbol of power when it's literally a symbol of workplace discrimination and oppression even today is absurd. They were originally designed for men who rode on horseback and were hijacked as women's fashion to accentuate their legs, not to empower them by making them taller. They are not just a literal pain to walk in, they are unsafe. High heels can fuck up your feet, ankles and legs so bad they can do permanent damage. Women were turned away from a prestigious film festival for not wearing heels. Heels are a symbol of power in the work force? Sex positive feminism? Are you kidding me? There are still places where it's mandatory for women to wear high heels in the workplace. I'm sorry, I'm kind of dying of laughter here. It is more important for characters to come off as being visually cool than seeming competent in their skills so leaning hard into gender tropes for fashion sake is the default to go to. Visual chaos is more the name of the game than a real cohesive design bible for Tekken, so that works. There is nothing in Tekken 6 that supports almost anyone's outfit, so you can have Nina in a torn up wedding dress or Jin dressed up as a waiter, because it's all fairly meaningless. So it's fine if the design aesthetic goes against the actual skillset. These characters can, at this point, literally do everything, including surviving being thrown into volcanos dozens of times. Almost everything is done purely for aesthetics at this point, it's all about looking cool first because most of the actions have no grounding anymore. Bears fight in tutus, Kangaroos fight Raptors, the custom costume system trivializes all design cohesion, and everyone accepts it. Tekken is a parituclarly interesting example because they threw the context book out the window years ago.
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