#HyperMuscular

[gingerbredman1989]

Casual, cool muscle. Thanks for the starter prompt, @rowdy317

[portraits-drawings]

Adorable, fun muscle guy - my hand-drawn and totally silly take. 24" x 30" graphite pencil on bristol board (2024); color added using Photoshop Elements.

[c1trvswurld]

as someone who likes to design and gender twist characters. i will always appreciate it when another artist takes a male character with heavy facial hair and gives a nod to it in their femme designs. whether its adding some stubble or a piercing that emulates a mustache.

Their beards/facial hair in general are often essential to their design and give away character traits, like how groomed they are, their age, etc.

so when its stripped away without a replacement or a compromise (or just full bush fuck it) it makes something feel slightly missing/off for me personally

[rxttenfish]

if nyall saw the monsters i wanna fuck you would puke

[thehivemindsys]

I hate how every fallout artist draws every character as either a hypermuscular gigachad or a tiny twink. This is the american wasteland, a world dredged up from the remnants of a hypercapitalist society. Food deserts exist. People are not bathing or shaving. Fashion has kind of gone to die because it's just not important anymore. I'm begging you guys to draw your oomfs realistically. Draw Boone with a beer gut and flabby man boobs. Draw Hancock with lanky limbs and self-done piercings. Draw Arcade covered in the dried blood of his patients and a bit of five-o-clock shadow. Nobody needs to be beautiful in the apocalypse.

[machine-saint]

the whole shirtless dehydrated hypermuscular movie star physique is gender equality because now men can have crippling body dysmorphia too 🤗

[gingerbredman1989]

"Thanks for the cold water, Mr. Charlton. It's a scorcher today!"

[pocket-deer-boy]

see the thing is fat asgore is canon and drawing him as skinny beefy hypermuscular is going off-script. hes an older daddy he's fat, he's soft all over. drawing undyne as super muscular and fit and beefy is also off-canon bcause she looks like 3 noodles

she's noodles

[ai-musclebound]

> Arvid and Einar's story <

In a world where the idea of masculinity was inseparably linked to the size and power of muscles, lived Arvid and Einar, a pair of shape-shifters who had chosen to inhabit bodies of hypermuscular bodybuilders. Their love was as strong as the muscles that covered every inch of their bodies.

One day, Arvid revealed a secret buried deep in his heart. "Einar," he began with a trembling voice, "there's something I've wanted to tell you for a long time. Something I could barely admit to myself." Einar, whose heart stopped at the words of his beloved, reassuringly wrapped his powerful arms around Arvid. "Whatever it is, my dear, you can confide in me." With closed eyes Arvid confessed: "I've always hidden behind this facade of muscle. But deep inside me, there's a desire to be smaller, protected by you. I long for comfort, even if it sounds unmanly."

Emotions like love, concern, surprise overwhelmed Einar – but all of this culminated in a strong devotion. "Arvid, my love for you is unconditional. If your heart desires something else, so be it." With the magic flowing in their veins, Einar took Arvid's hand and spoke words full of strength and love. "Let go, my beloved. Become who you want to be, not who you thought you had to be." Under Einar's gentle persuasion, Arvid's body began to shrink, every inch he lost made him fit more into the image his heart desired. With each degree of reduction, he felt lighter, freer, more secure in the arms of his partner.

Einar, now the larger one, held Arvid in a loving but firm embrace. "I will always be here to hold you, to protect you, my dear," whispered Einar. Arvid felt a freedom he never thought possible. In the contrasting dynamic of their size ratio, he found true strength – the strength to face his own vulnerability and surrender to the love and acceptance of his partner. The comfort Arvid sought and the protective instinct awakened in Einar merged into a unity stronger than the greatest muscles they had ever sculpted.

[fallout-lou-begas]

so this drawing in the background of the art class in Ghost World couldn't possibly be anything other than hypermuscular Goku right?? like literally what else could it be??

[aibigbois]

Rembrandt's genius in portraying muscular subjects lies in his masterful use of chiaroscuro, deftly playing with light and shadow to accentuate the contours of the massively muscular human form. In works like the above he goes beyond mere anatomical precision, infusing his subjects with a profound emotional depth. The interplay of light on rippling enormous muscles not only showcases his technical brilliance but also conveys a palpable sense of vitality. Rembrandt's ability to capture the physicality and psychological complexity of extremely hypermuscular individuals elevates his paintings into powerful narratives of the human experience, where each brushstroke delves into the intricacies of strength, vulnerability, and the fragility of life.

[malegains]

LIFE AND LOVE AS A MUSCLEFREAK Normies just don't understand. It's hard enough to fend off misplaced concern or even disgust from well-meaning friends and family, but what about dating? Well, if you haven't accepted the fact already, you need to hop to it: 99.9% of women just don't like hypermuscular bodies. Lucky for us all, the hormone changes that are required to push us to 700, 800, and even over 1000 lbs also tend to rewire our desires. Who cares if the ladies don't want you? You're musclesexual now, so get yourself a fellow freak and start live laugh loving! Advice on how to do just that, on newsstands now.

[explainslowly]

found someone on twitter who draws trans dudes in that very particular hypermuscular style, with just the meatiest dicks, check it out:

[risingshine]

oh hey mom don't worry about my tuition - this guy from the srhine I work at just gave me 15 million yen - yes it was in a unmarked dufflebag why do you ask? what do you mean i was going to be kidnapped? hes just a nice hypermuscular man with long oily hair who squats like a gargolye half the time-

[gascon-en-exil]

Anon says as if FEH isn't using the few Male OCS to sell muscle. Bruno literaly became a meme and then there is the deer men of book VIII

Those are not remotely equivalent. Bruno hasn't been consistently relevant for years, and despite having been in the game since 2017 has all of two alts - neither of which are particularly sexy. The new deer guy is currently just background art; the internet only started thirsting after him so hard because we've been so starved of male OCs, especially after Book VII.

Further, the attempt to deflect from how female characters are objectified in FEH and similar properties by pointing out overly muscled male designs has always been a deeply flawed one. One exists for straight male titillation; the other exists as a straight male power fantasy. There is absolutely a point to be made about how hypermuscular bodies in media promote unhealthy ideas about what men should look like, but that's an entirely separate conversation from the one that frames characters as sex objects. Gay/bi men are best in a position to appreciate the issue from both sides, and the solution we most often pose when discussing such things is to show a wider variety of male bodies in states of (potentially eroticized) undress - a solution that I imagine would not go over well with the sorts of straight men who like to bring up muscular male characters as a gotcha.

The shirtless muscular guys of most media are never framed or positioned in the same way that even more modestly-dressed female characters often are when they're being marketed based on some kind of sex appeal. Gay porn games are the only type of animated media I've seen that treats male characters at all in the same way as female characters are handled on most of FEH's seasonal banners. As an example, let me revisit a point I made about a week ago, in reference to the new winter banner.

Here is Claude, wearing a reindeer-themed holiday outfit.

Now here is another character wearing a reindeer-themed holiday outfit, this time from the gay dating sim Camp Buddy: Scoutmaster Season.

A bit excessive? Yes, but I've got a point to make here. Let's talk about the differences. We've got

a crotch bulge, as well as a small treasure trail. Contrast summer Lorenz and his speedo with Ken doll anatomy.

extensive muscle definition, including pronounced tits pecs. Contrast summer Ephraim, summer Dimitri, and others.

visible nipples, something the internet also went crazy over when they randomly appeared on Fargus back in November. This isn't merely about being anatomically correct; nipples are an erogenous zone for some men, and to include them in a bare-chested design indicates that this character is not just a slab of muscle (as the power fantasy angle would prefer) but has potential erotic vulnerabilities.

a harness that greatly resembles bondage gear, and is in fact used in that way later on.

most obviously, about as much skin on display as the average female unit on summer banners

and while not apparent here, a willingness to commit to the inherent silliness of the bit in the subsequent sex scenes, which employ a flurry of intentionally bad holiday-themed puns and have the characters act out a reindeer-flavored variety of pony play.

But that's far too horny for a winter banner, you say? Don't tell that to Edelgard's thigh-highs and upskirt. Isn't that specific combination a fetish in its own right?

Or Yunaka with her cleavage and camel toe and strategically-placed bits of bare skin.

Or just look at the Byleths side-by-side. Only the female version is baring her shoulders and midriff in a form-fitting top...surely that's for entirely innocent reasons.

And again, check out any given summer banner and see just how far FEH will push its rating with its female cast.

Of course this is all from a gay male perspective; I can't speak to what women find attractive in animated male characters. Anecdotally the most popular options are characters who are already prominent and popular (so...not Bruno or the unnamed deer guy). Also, there are times when women in the fandom pick up on stuff about these guys' bodies that I wouldn't have even thought to eroticize at first, like Dimitri's proportionally small waist. Others can feel free to add onto this if they like.

TL;DR, if FEH truly wants to sell itself on sleaze (which of course it does, and already is), it seriously needs to step up its game with its male cast.

[gingerbredman1989]

Hot AF Ginger Redneck.