Seriously, how the fuck do they work?
Izlude Spritesheet (http://www.ffxionline.com/forums/attachments/dat-image-rendering/19920d1134983823-izlude-shrine-knight-fft-others-soon-izlude.png)
The things stick waaaay out in the front and back. It's like they all have a hoola hoop as part of their uniform.
I did find this topic (http://ffhacktics.com/smf/index.php?topic=9754.0) with a concept art of Izlude, but if that's what the belts are SUPPOSED to look like, the sprite artists failed horribly at rendering them.
Always made me think of Blue Mary's (http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/12/121177/1691780-kof00_blue_mary.jpg) superfluous belt. I always saw them as unconventional decoration that serves as nothing but a hindrance, which makes them seem more badass. They don't need to be functionally agile to murder you.
Quote from: TristanBeoulve on November 03, 2014, 06:00:25 pm
To look cool?
Eggxactly
(http://carryingthegun.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/1485-too-cool-for-you-bro.jpg)
The 'how' is, "a wizard did it", and that wizard is Kletian. Bam, problem solved. Bitches.
Rule Of Cool (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RuleOfCool)