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What do I think? I think it's interesting that most of your female characters have rather bare chest, while most of your male characters have their chest covered.
I can tell you that a serious mage, warrior, commander, what ever, would not be wearing a metal bra, how ever good looking it is. And that superheroine leotard thing going on with her lower body... *sigh* Just, please, don't.
You are too good to be sacrificing the credibility of the illustration for simple "sexy". Just give the ladies the same type of armor as to the gentlemen, OK?
Sure, women usually have a bigger boobs and smaller waist, but the difference isn't that big. Breasts are rather soft and squishy, you know. :-D They can - and will - be bound to be more "functional". Just take a look at sports bras. No woman with natural breasts will workout without fastening and flattening the breasts as much as they can, and I am 100% certain of that no women in Malazan had silicone breasts. You might be aware of women's breasts, but they don't want you to be focusing on that, when they have a job to do. Tattersail wasn't only the "cadre mage", she was the commanding mage. A commander.