High Heels

High heels are perhaps the most popular type of shoes in the Amethyst Angel Adventures chronology. This style of shoes can come in several different design classes, and most of XQ's female human agents own at least one pair of the height-increasing shoes.

Attributes
High heels appear to be just like they're named; the heel of a high-heeled shoe is higher than where the wearer's toes would be. Three primary classes of heel types exist: stiletto (perfect for bondage purposes but terrible at stealth without an ability to levitate via ki energy), wedge (better stealth rating but fewer bondage options), and heelless (stiletto-based but without the stiletto itself, always with an ankle-strap outside of boots). High-heeled shoes also come in three style classes, which are further sorted based on specific attributes: sandals (further sorted based on whether or not the heels have either thong-based formations or ankle-straps), pumps (classic, slingback, Mary Jane, D'Orsay, and ankle-strap varieties, each with peep-toe variants; D'Orsay styles can also have ankle-straps), and boots (sorted by length and if they have peep toes).

Some styles of heels can also be subjected to different strength levels of 'Arsenal Locks', restricting specific heels to certain ways of being worn or wearers to specific styles of heels. Sometimes specific heels can even be double-'Arsenal Locked' (they can only be worn a certain way, with a specific wearer limited to just the heels in question).

Known Heels, non-XJR

 * Hollie Brazie's main non-XJR heels prior to her shift to a thong high heel-heavy arsenal are a pair of 4.25 inch wedge sandals with a small trail of blood on the near-arm side of the left shoe's wedge
 * Jet, born male, has several known pairs of non-XJR heels; his most notable pair is his red non-platform 7 inch stiletto 'Mercy' pumps, which become his Ice Star heels. Other heels include his black Brash 'Omega' pumps (in which he activated Taylor Johnson's link in his Soul Bond), two pairs of self-acquired Ellie pumps (blue 8260, acquired as part of setting up Anise's 'Johto League Angel' high heel arsenal, and yellow 8221), a pair of metallic gold Holly shimmer pumps (Jet always wears stockings in these heels as a tribute to his older sister's fishnet stocking-fueled special super speed boost), three pairs of Femme-series platform ballet heels (a Femme-12 Anise bought him while buying her own pair, a Femme-3010 given to him by RSX Domino (who he subsequently, after putting them on, deep-throated), and a Femme-3020 he bought himself), a Karo 0992 platform ballet heeled shoe Jasmine Levesque (who was just recently given her own pair by Ava Johnson) got him (this resulted in Jet getting himself and both of his RHR-born Bond girls Karo's 0255 platform ballet), and a white glitter platform peep-toe pump that seems to be his primary wedding heels.  Jet also possesses an Ellie 513-Jasmine sandal (which it's stated he's had his eye on for a while), a black/tan Pleaser Delight-642W sandal, and a Delight-680 closed-back thong sandal he rarely wears outside of a competition in which he's doing something other than actually competing.  It is assumed that Jet may have at least a second 8260 based on a conversation during an interlude between Episodes 1 and 2 of 'Sabotage Central' with one of the two eventual winners.

Known 'Arsenal Locks'

 * Anastasia Brayton has a double-'Arsenal Lock' associated with her: she can only wear peep-toe heels, with her main blue knee-high 7 inch stiletto platform boots further limited to mandating a miniskirt and black tights at all times (certain situations allow for the lack of the skirt, such as when Jet activates Roxxi Townsend's link in his Level 4-Omega Delta Advanced multiple Soul Bond which forces him to impregnate both Roxxi and Anastasia through unprotected vaginal sex through their tights (a fantasy he had previously helped Anastasia fulfill)); the lock was placed after Anastasia's creator Anise wore the dark-blue-haired duplicate's main boots with pants and different hosiery in Psi Mu Omega chapter 8.
 * Anastasia's is modified twice; the first mod, in 2124, removes the hosiery mandate with her signature boots outright in favor of a topless mandate that itself is replaced in 2197 with Anastasia gaining the ability to wear ballet heels alongside her peep-toes.
 * One of the most famous 'Arsenal Locks' deployed was before XQ even formed, when Jet rendered Pleaser's Delight-680 closed-back thong sandal wearable only with no hosiery altogether (he and thousands of others view the sandals as too sexy to wear any way other than completely without hosiery); without his assistance, an 'Absolute Victory' effect is added to the gorgeous closed-back thong sandals, though the effect's visibility varies based on the situation (competitions, as seen in the final race of the Sigma Zeo tournament, has an activation so subtle nobody even notices it activated, while fighting evil causes any transformation of an XZ Series Saiyan wearing the heels to upgrade to a 'Super Rainbow' state
 * Among nine girls from the NSX system with previous pornography-related experience, three of them are limited to a total four pairs of heels between them (Kordelia Ava Levesque has two of those four pairs, her ballet ankle boots (Ava Johnson's favorite of Kordelia's heels) and a pair of Devious Femme-12 platform ballet ankle-strap pumps (Ava's main heels; Kordelia doesn't gain access to them until Ava acquires her own pair of Kordelia's ballet ankle boots), while Rebecca Blue and Kionna Sherry Duval have advanced, one-pair 'Arsenal Locks' limiting them to a specific pair of heels they can only wear a certain way (Rebecca's is more restrictive, limited to black 5 inch stiletto non-platform pumps with white thigh-high stockings and a skirt whose longest length at any time is at least three inches at its lowest point from the stockings, while Kionna's non-platform red 6 inch stiletto pumps are strictly limited to no hosiery whatsoever; no restrictions to other clothing affect these pumps, listed as 'XQ Design Codename Duval' and often times worn with the wearer's ankles tied together (several of these instances, when the conditions are ideal for it, see a female wearer topless like Kionna was in her lone appearance on the pornography-based site it originated))); one of the other three females from Kordelia and Kionna's group, whose high heel array includes a pair of colorful platform stiletto pumps, has a simple stiletto pumps limitation
 * Jasmynne Kae Mazara has a more restrictive version of Anastasia's limitation: while Anastasia can wear hosiery and peep-toe boots, Jasmynne's limitation restricts her to peep-toe pumps with no hosiery whatsoever (her peep-toe pumps can only be classic variation, as the only straps she can wear with her peep-toe pumps is from bondage)
 * Bondage plays a critical role in one 'Arsenal Lock', one of the more legendary such ones; with the exception of the beginning of Jet's battle for the Earth Badge in 'Cyan Star Zenon', 'XQ Design Codename Bloodaxe' pumps (a non-platform 7.5 inch stiletto ankle-strap pump) mandate the style's associated 'Bloodaxe Combination' bondage straps be worn with them (the limitation was placed by the style's original wearer, a male who suggested the style to Jet; the limitation is one of the more legendary ones as Hunter J of the KSK system and RHR-born Rainbow Angel Jasmine Levesque (Jet's Bond's Delta 2 and a former prostitute) combined for eleven and a quarter years in their first wearing of the style alone (J spent nine-plus years locked in a maroon pair as a result of failing to catch the Shiny Arceus that became Z under Anise's command against her will (with the locks bewitched so only Anise could unlock them; multiple failed attempts to escape to whatever dimension Anise was in contributed to the nine-plus year length of one single wearing) while Jasmine Levesque spent 27 months willingly in a black pair (she first donned them on her 18th birthday, waited 8 months before beginning her prostitute-themed search for Jet (which took a further ten), then spent an entire 9 month pregnancy (thanks to a parallel uterus ability, because she was pregnant with quads) before removing them for the first time)). J was susceptible to the pain the extreme heels are capable of causing, whereas Jasmine gained an immunity to such pain from Anise when buying the heels from the red-haired Delta Prime's store.
 * Hollie Brazie is given an 'Arsenal Lock' that has no changes to her ability to wear any style of heels, but limits thong pairs (other than Delight-680, as a result of an adjustment made later) to being worn with fishnet stockings; when he set it Jet accidentally made Hollie unable to use her Nova Legend Goddess form, but adjusted it to make the Delight-680 closed-back thong sandal an exception (granting Hollie access to the fourth tier's final form but mandating the Delight-680 sandal as her heels in the form; Hollie did not have to make any adjustments to her Nova Legend Goddess form as the Delight-680 sandal had been her choice for that form when she first ascended into it)
 * Hollie later extends this limiter to flat-soled thong sandals, but with normal socks instead of fishnet stockings. Her hair length by the point of this extension's implementation has exceeded the maximum length Hollie could possibly have it cease contact with the ground, hence a decrease in frequency of her wearing high heels.
 * Several XZ Series transformations have pseudo-'Arsenal Locks' deployed; they are dubbed 'pseudo' because the limitations are exclusive to their respective transformations.
 * The ninth through twelfth overall forms ('Ultimate', Nova X, Nova Legend, and Rainbow Saiyan, the last of which is the first form of Tier 2) and Omega Saiyan forms 4 through 8 (the fourth through eighth forms of Tier 4) mandate that both genders wear high heels, though the specifics vary with each form: the 'Ultimate' form has no limitation whatsoever regarding style, just as long as the shoes are high-heeled (required increases of a full inch in heel height and a half inch in how extreme a pair of heels are limits the Nova X heels based on the 'Ultimate' form's chosen heels), the Rainbow Saiyan and aforementioned Omega Saiyan forms have heel height restrictions (the Omega Saiyan forms mandate the heel height be exactly the form's number in inches (forms 16 through 20 can have it as an option with the heel height in centimeters), whereas the Rainbow Saiyan form requires a minimum 5 inch heel) though they share the 'Ultimate' and Nova X forms' "any style is accepted" standing; the Nova Legend form, in an unvariated state, requires sandals with a minimum one inch platform (certain variations make a Nova Legend form in pumps or boots possible, though Chaos Reaction factors make the final decision)
 * Nova Legend 2, 3, and Goddess (the peak forms of tiers 2, 3, and 4), plus Tier 2's second form "Alpha Saiyan" have the high heel restrictions limited to only those officially listed as at least part-female (XQ Captain Jet, born male but turned dual-gendered thanks to Ice Star, has the female's required high heels in these forms); the mandated heels of an Alpha Saiyan is a pair of non-platform ankle-strap pumps as extreme as the transformed XZ Series Saiyan can wear without going to ballet levels (this height appropriately named their 'Alpha Limit'), Nova Legend 2 requires extreme stiletto heels (no style restrictions) that are locked on, Nova Legend 3 requires wedge sandals with ankle-straps (bondage is optional), and Nova Legend Goddess requires thong high heels with any kind of ankle-strap-based support and no hosiery whatsoever (these restrictions make the Delight-680 style a favorite choice for the form; Anise and Natsume both had to make adjustments to their Nova Legend Goddess forms, though Natsume's may be ruled as having been forced by growing older.