Talk:Cassius Longinus/@comment-27818075-20190117202150/@comment-36277500-20190119192321

At last! Someone has guts to say NO! to hipster beard trend!!!

I had also learned that Romans at Caesar's times (50 year BC) were shaving their faces, especially in Legiones, where there used to be severe drill. Facial hair were considered as unhygienic; for example it might complicate healing wounds in a soldier's face. Unshaved soldier was risking to be punished for lack of discipline, as if he got dirty clothes or blunt weapon. So whether Cassius and some other senatores might be decadent, at least Marc Antony should be perfectly shaved.

(It was quite common knowledge, which even leaked to comic. I'll let myself quote from "Asterix" very first tome: "Good soldier should be smoothly shaved!" "And good centurion should be a role model of that!" when Panoramix made Legionists drink potion making their hair and beards grow rapidly.)

Jokes aside...

Real Cassius Longinus http://www.s9.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/5197_Cassius-Longinus-Gaius.jpg

Real Marc Antony https://minerdescent.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/mark-antony.jpg

So I second your complaint. Game creators should remember that not every woman MUST like beards in men. For example, I am a woman and I consider shaved men's faces as more attractive and seemingly younger. Especially when it comes to love interest, creators should not force their private tastes on us women, who might got other concepts of male beauty... Particularly if that forced beauty canon is historically untrue.