Line #8 MsFanservice/Literature


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6	[[caption-width-right:350:"Go for the sexy beast, she told me. If you’re going to shell out the money, don’t settle."]]
7	Examples of MsFanservice in literature.
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9	%%* Vida from ''The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966'' by Creator/RichardBrautigan.
10	* ''Literature/AgentToTheStars'': Tea Reader is a semi-popular singer, represented by Tom, and it's said that nearly half of the revenue from her albums comes from teenage boys buying them just for the [[FanserviceCover cover picture]] of her doing a SexySurfacingShot out of a pool.
11	* ''Literature/BazilBroketail'': Alsebra, InUniverse; it's mentioned that all the male dragons in her squad (sans Bazil) have a slight crush on her, and at one point, Purple-Green claims that sometimes he regrets she is a female [[EatingTheEyeCandy while he's observing her athletic body]]. Too bad Alsebra, like other freemartin dragonesses, is infertile.
12	%%* Candy Christian from ''Literature/{{Candy}}'' by Creator/TerrySouthern.
13	%%* Eko from David Klass's ''[[Literature/{{Caretaker}} The Caretaker Trilogy]]'', most notably ''Firestorm''.
14	%%* Both Amelia and Vanity from Creator/JohnCWright's ''Literature/ChroniclesOfChaos'', Amelia [[ReluctantFanserviceGirl reluctantly,]] Vanity [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl enthusiastically.]]
15	* ''Literature/TheChangeRoom'': Shar's very beautiful, with her breasts, buttocks and legs described at length. Further, she's the most open and unabashed of the characters about her sexuality. She and Eliza have several explicit sex scenes, which mostly focus on describing Shar since they're from Eliza's perspective.
16	* [[PirateGirl Bêlit]] from ''Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian'' is described as formed like a goddess, both lithe and voluptuous at once, and she performs a MatingDance in front of Conan, which leads to them having sex right there in front of her crew no less.
17	%%* Lana Lee and Darlene from ''Literature/AConfederacyOfDunces''.
18	* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' has quite a few, usually of the "supernaturally beautiful" kind, such as [[SuccubiAndIncubi Lara Raith]], and [[TheFairFolk Queen Mab]]. There's also his eventual apprentice Molly Carpenter, who grows into someone 'built like a brickhouse' or like a Valkyrie, curves and all. Part of the reason for this is that the POV is [[MaleGaze Harry Dresden]] himself and he's got a pretty awful track record for keeping his head around women. The focus on how attractive all the women around him are goes down noticeably during the books where he's in a relationship, and short stories from other characters perspectives mostly avoid all the MaleGaze usually going on in the main series.
19	* ''Literature/TheElenium'' has Elysoun, who plays this trope straight and [[PlayedForLaughs for laughs]] too. Due to belonging to a free-love culture, she has [[InnocentFanserviceGirl no nudity taboo]] and tends to wanders around practically naked, which causes some amusing moments like in a banquet where all other guests [[DistractedByTheSexy can't take their eyes off her]]. She also [[GoodBadGirl hits on some knights a lot]], but her husband has [[MyGirlIsASlut no issue with her offering herself to other men on the bed]].
20	* ''Literature/TheHungerGames'': InUniverse, this is Glimmer's entire gimmick for getting sponsors. There is a bit of FridgeHorror to this. [[SexSlave Given what happens to the more attractive victors of the Hunger Games, and that Glimmer's prep team and mentor probably knew this]], any of her sponsors [[EntitledToHaveYou could have]] [[RescueSex an ulterior motive for helping Glimmer win the games]].
21	* Creator/AmySedaris' book ''I Like You: Hospitality Under The Influence''; admit it, you bought it for the pictures.
22	* ''Literature/HalfwayToTheGraveNightHuntress1'': Cat calls Bones's spy Francesca "without a doubt the most gorgeous female I had ever seen. In person ''or'' on television." She spends a full paragraph describing Francesca's impossibly voluptuous figure and the [[{{Stripperific}} extremely tight and minimalist dress she is wearing]].
23	* Any female character Creator/RobertAHeinlein ever wrote is the embodiment of this trope. In ''Literature/IWillFearNoEvil'', he even creates a future fashion trend that involves high heels, translucent skirts, body paint, and nothing else.
24	* Edgar Rice Burroughs's ''Literature/JohnCarterOfMars'' has Dejah Thoris, and any red-skinned Barsoomian woman who [[DiamondsInTheBuff wear jewelry and not much else]], and it usually doesn't conceal anything. In general, the Barsoomians of most races, male or female, wear the bare minimum of clothing necessary to hang weapons, tools, or ornaments from, and not a stitch more. The exceptions are the Therns (who at least sometimes wear ceremonial robes) and the Okar (who bundle up with heavy furs when traveling in their arctic domain, though they tend to strip down like everyone else when inside their climate-controlled cities). Basically, it's a whole planet of fanservice.
25	* ''Literature/JurassicPark'': Dr. Ellie Sattler is frequently decked out in short cut-offs and midriff-bearing tops. Lampshaded when Gennaro offers to stay with Ellie and Harding when they stop to investigate the sick ''Stegosaurus'' on the tour.
26	-->'''Malcolm''': Why would our dear lawyer stay behind?\
27	'''Grant''': Probably because of Dr. Sattler.\
28	'''Malcolm''': Hmm. The shorts, you think?\
29	'''Grant''': It's happened before.
30	* ''Literature/TheKingkillerChronicle'': Fela has a HotLibrarian look and various characters comment on her curvaceous figure and [[BuxomBeautyStandard buxom chest]]. In ''Literature/TheNameOfTheWind'' Kvothe also discovers she SleepsInTheNude when he calls upon her in her dorm room late one night, only for her to drowsily answers the door while holding a ModestyBedsheet that's barely covering her. He struggles with the urge to gawk openly.
31	* ''Literature/MercyThompson'', has the titular protagonist herself. Granted, the covers may exaggerate her appearance a bit and she (and only herself) denies that she's beautiful; it's clear she fits this. She is frequently naked due to ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing and is often stripping off her clothes numerous times. It helps that she's [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl fine being naked]], as long as the people around her don't get the wrong idea. Mercy was even considered the pack's eye candy by a television crew trying to film her in Silver Bourne.
32	* Invoked in ''Literature/PosterGirl'' were the protagonist Sonya Kantor was deliberatley chosen by the regime as their titular Poster Girl because of her good looks.
33	* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' has Cersei Lannister, Daenerys Targaryen and Arianne Martell who are all remarkedly beautiful women with numerous sex scenes and have their bodies and nudity described in great detail. Seriously, [[Creator/GeorgeRRMartin George]], were all those sex scenes really necessary to the plot?
34	* Brett Ashley from Creator/ErnestHemingway's ''Literature/TheSunAlsoRises''. Aside from being based on an actual lover of the writer's, she is described as having "curves like a racing yacht." Yow. Sail, ho!
35	* ''Literature/TalesOfThePack'': Archer is lovingly described as an AmazonianBeauty while she and Lexie have sex.
36	* ''Literature/TheTeresaKnightTrilogy'': Teresa is described as beautiful, and constantly has explicit sex scenes.
37	* ''Literature/TimeScout'': Margo loves tight clothes, has large breasts, and there are a couple of scattered moments that accentuate her sexiness with either comments or inner monologue from other people.
38	* ''Literature/TrappedOnDraconica'': Zarracka's first outfit is a low-cut dress. Her second is a ChainmailBikini. This lampshaded by many people:
39	** Herself in the Eastern Alliance Arc where she notes that Taurok is the only man who ''doesn't'' want her to take her dress off due to the desert heat.
40	** Gothon in the final arc, who says that his empire is 'not a cat house'.
41	** Ben in the bonus art with a picture of Zarracka in said low-cut dress.
42	* ''Literature/VenusPrime'': [[PosthumanNudism Sparta abandons her clothes]] and spends the rest of the fifth book swimming nude around the world-ship.
43	* ''Literature/WeCanRememberItForYouWholesale'': Shirley the receptionist is a blonde and decently articulated woman who showcases her bare and ample breasts that bounce around at work.
44	* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'': Several Aielwomen have filled this role on occasion, from Aviendha messing with Rand by [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl undressing in front of him at every opportunity]] to [[TheVamp Sevanna]] habitually wearing her blouse undone enough that it would qualify her for NavelDeepNeckline if she wore fewer necklaces.
45	* ''Literature/XanaduStoryverse'': InUniverse, Hannah describes the news hosts who interview her after she returns to her hometown as "a perky blonde in a red dress with lots of cleavage [and] a perky brunette in a black dress with even more cleavage", implicitly as an example of the common news station ploy of hiring attractive women as anchors to entice people into watching.
46	* ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'': The Demoness Metria is a shapeshifting FemmeFatale who enjoys using her powers to be the most beatiful woman in the room, as well as tempting others to get what she wants.
47	* ''Literature/YumiAndTheNightmarePainter'': Design's body was made to specification by Hoid, combined with the fact that she doesn't really understand shame, so she doesn't know that she shouldn't let people stare at her.
48	-->'''Design:''' Make me pretty so they'll be extra disturbed if my face ever unravels. And give me voluptuous curves, because they remind me of a graphed cosign. And also because boobs look fun.
49	* ''Literature/ZeroSight'': Rei Acerba Bathory is a ProudBeauty with RavenHairIvorySkin that [[VaporWear doesn't wear bras]] and is frequently out her clothes, [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl without any regard for modesty]], enjoying doing scandalous things such as going SkinnyDipping at the academy pool. Dieter experiences this side of her shortly after their meeting her and {{Fainting}} after a bloody fight; he wakes up to find himself in a shower, with Rei casually [[ShowerScene showering in a stall right beside him]], having finished [[UndressingTheUnconscious undressing and washing him herself]]. His mind short circuits between [[EatingTheEyeCandy staring]] at her [[ToplessnessFromTheBack bare back]] and worrying about the fact she likely just gave him a sponge bath.

Context MsFanservice / Literature