I didn't say anything about characters behaving lecherously. I just want someone to acknowledge it. Show some bloody concern. And maybe for her to try putting something else on, because why the fuck not?I'd disagree that her design is divorced from characterization. The entire crux of the character from what I can gather so far is that the antagonists see her strictly as an object to be taken advantage of and used because of her very nature, while the protagonists fight against that idea and consider her to have full personhood and want to help her acheive her own goals.
The actions of both are not directly related to her appearance, but her appearance in and of itself is thematically very much in sync with that idea. You can view her as an object due to the way she is drawn or as a character due to who she is and what she does. If that is distracting, it fits very much with the internal conflict the protagonist drivers have with needing to use blades as tools while wanting to view them as friends and individuals with full rights of self determination.
Characters behaving lecherously isn't needed to further drive that home, and I think would detract from Pyra as a character. (though for all I know this could happen later, I'm only on chapter 3)
For that matter, even if they did have a reasoning for why she can't just... wear something better, that very same reasoning would just be an excuse for blatant pandering anyway. The Thermian Argument is not something I'm going to accept. However, at the very least, it would've been a lot better than just throwing it in there without any acknowledgement of how weird it is in-context.
It's funny, too, since the outfit actively fights against the character's own story since it detracts from any sense that she actually has any agency of her own. It's not a good look.