When we battle Esmerelda, her weapons of choice are body shaming, bullying, and belittling her opponent. Examples: A. Esmerelda tells you exactly what she thinks of your personality, your intelligence, your aptitude, your appearance, your fashion sense... B. Esmerelda looks you up and down and wrinkles her nose in disgust. Your face flushes in embarrassment. C. Esmerelda thinks your face could use a slight alteration. D. Esmerelda completely eviscerates you... with her words! You can FEEL the burn.

I have some suggestions to replace that.

Possible weapons: 1.Hits you on the head with rolled up fashion magazine 2.Stomps on your feet with spiked heels 3.Throws her designer purse at your legs to trip you

This seems excessive. The current battle text is very vague and left up to the imagination of the viewer. I don’t think it crosses into any of these territories.

I never read the battle text. I just mash buttons. On very rare occasions, if the summary on the sides are confusing, I've tried reading the actual text, but it just confused me more, so now I ignore it.

That said, if its really bothersome, it can't hurt to change it.

The problem is, the text isn’t particularly bothersome. It’s very vague judgmental stuff that doesn’t really have any value other than giving her some personality. It’s just showing that she has a bad attitude and a strict definition of what good fashion is.

The OP’s suggestions are more likely to be upsetting because they are specific acts of violence: hitting, stomping, throwing and tripping with objects.

NPC Esmeralda is supposed to be mean, isn't she drawn like a character in the Devil Wears Prada? In any case, humans/ytivi/omeni/ji-meneb do not fight, pets do so she's dissing your pet, which did in fact attack her.

That said, I find the battle text pretty vague and there isn't anything more wrong with it than any other battle text. Users and your pet are not at a cocktail party or a government office, they are in a battle and mean to fight and some of the weapons of Subeta are pretty deliberately evil.

Let's not remove all the sharp edges and unpleasantness from the NPCs, please. Turning the Darkheart Phantom into a goody-goody was bad enough, as is the fact the NPC Mauve's Subetapedia entry makes him out to be a 'secretly okay dude' and not a jerk like he appears to be,

Not sure how replacing mean words with physical violence is any better? I don't think this is a change that is necessary

Y'all picked a fight with her and you expect her to be nice? 😂

srs talk: I think she should stay as she is.

Kind of makes me worry that we got to a point where descriptions of assault, physical bullying and physical violence are preferred over an imaginary character being a snooty stuck-up piece of work and judging someone because they want to fight with her.

Whoever challenges her is basically asking for a piece of her mind, and that fits the character way more than physical violence imo.

Let mean characters be mean. Not everything on this site has to be puppies and unicorns, especially where battling is concerned. That's the one part of the site where you should expect things to get a little ugly.

I agree with the others. major drills got changed because of people being offended by one word he used and hes ... a drill Sargent. (honestly I'm still amazed that the word pansy was removed from site, he could be calling us much worse things)

people are going to be mean... and this is just an npc, and her character to boot.

Oh good god, no. Just stop, please.

I say no to changing the battle text. She is supposed to be a mean “devil wears Prada” kind of character so the text is appropriate. Having violent text wouldn’t make sense for her. Also violence is no less worse than body shaming.

Battling in itself is violent and mean. Some opponents are literally elderly and you kill them for loot.

Don’t get me wrong, I want opponents to keep their meanness and sharp edges. The BAs do a great job of keeping battle text interesting and I love the puns they come up with.

But changing vague, benign text into something worse? That’s a hard pass and would set a bad precedent.

Didn't we already have this out when she was initially released? She's a jerk. So go beat her up with giant swords and guns?

opponents text is supposed to make you want to beat them up, yes? I don't think the answer is to make her more violent, I think if she makes you angry that's the right reaction! go beat her!

I always saw her as a caricature of Anna Wintour..