He continued watching. She had the figure of a twenty-year-old although he preferred not to guess her real age. She moved with a natural, unaffected grace. No, there was no way of guessing what she'd been like before, what had been improved. He stopped thinking about it; there wasn't any sense.

But he suddenly knew the truth. He knew it. He knew what she used to be.

[–] pulaskiwasright@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That’s interesting and all, but I don’t see how that helps their case that this challenged beauty standards. If anything, it reinforces beauty standards because she hated being ugly and was very happy to be made beautiful, and just about every person around her reinforced that.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Casting a beautiful actress and making her ugly never challenges beauty standards. The claim is bullshit.

However, focusing on her ugly beginning provides more weight to why she paid the price of sterility for beauty, and why she's so desperate to adopt ciri.