An old image set (back in Honey Select 1) I made, trying to capture something that might be in a sorta "Sports Illustrated Body issue" style deal in Aistoria. This lead to 9 pictures and it eventually becoming a thing that happened in RP as a kinda important plot point. This isn't really something I'd do in the canonical BE storyline for game stuff, but this is still very much a Naomi thing to do...

I've talked before about Naomi having a bit of an exhibitionist fetish. A lot of this, unsurprisingly, comes from having a very clamped down childhood, and from having her teenage years living with and being raised by the Church in the Order of Saint Alistair. Being forced to stay buttoned up for so long often doesn't turn out how people intended and there is a type of attention Naomi felt starved up.

So hanging out, now in her mid-late 20s with her friend Beth, a "succubus"(it's complicated but she's not a literal succubus) who now runs a porn studio, the idea gets dropped to do a "tasteful nude photoshoot". She's hot, and as a crazy, fighter's body and it's just be neat. Naomi agrees, the shoot is a lot of fun, the pictures are great! She shows it to Ashara who is very into them but also is like these absolutely can not ever be published, come on Naomi.

Years later, during a really messy political time, those photos leak, but they're not printed as is. They're ran in a real rag of a newspaper, in low quality, and with additional censoring, designed to make things look lewder than they actually are.

After arguing about this for awhile, Naomi decides the best thing to do is to just print the photo set as it was intended, in a quality magazine willing to present it in positive way. They even manage to rope in a few other people in from the Esperadan military to make a whole issue out of it.

... And it goes over really well. Obviously there are detractors, and the more traditionalist segments of the country make a fuss about it, but Leone in particular is increasingly progressive (at least by Aistorian standards). The average Leonese citizen is less stuffy than the aristocracy over issues like nudity, especially considering how fucking hot it gets.

Also while not an Absolute Monarchy at this point, this isn't a democracy either. A smear campaign can strain political relations, but can't un-noble someone like an election can. Ultimately Naomi and Ashara was just able to ride it out and it ultimately let to Naomi being a little looser in how she presented herself in public. We're in the 424 ACE, god dammit, a Duchess can wear a trendy bikini at the beach.