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I recently spoke openly with my best friend about my feelings on gender. It was a raw, sensitive moment that I didn’t expect to have. When I started talking I realised that I was very afraid of what they would think. Eventually my emotions took over and I cried openly, explaining my fears and struggles. I didn’t expect them to know what to do or how to handle the situation. Good friends are those who come to you when you need them, even if they themselves can’t quite understand how you’re feeling. I’m happy to say that I have the best friends. 

This is my first comic, go easy on me! It was also a really emotional one to draw. It displays a truly intimate moment in my life, as well as silly drawings of me as a small child! :P 

I hope that others can have the courage to be open with their friends and family about who they are, and I also hope that others have the compassion to stand by those that need them. In the end we all deserve to be happy together.

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Before starting comics I want to establish two characters to help explain some of my feelings about gender and identity. In my first post I introduced Endomi (x), who represents the way I feel a lot of the time but not the way I present to others. In this post we have Exomi, who is a pretty accurate character for how I look and how others must see me right now.

As I drew En and Exo I felt pretty strongly reminded of why I feel non-binary. Neither of them actually are me, they’re just two sides of the same coin. I wish to be able to feel and express much more feminine, like En, but there are aspects of my presentation as Exomi that I do not want to lose either. In the future I’d like I’ll try to talk more about how I feel it should be possible to transition and also be non-binary. =)

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Hi!

Welcome to Of Masks and Mirrors, a webcomic about discovering identity and traversing gender! As I stumble and blunder my way through having a webcomic I’m going to try to explore some of my feelings and experiences of being non-binary and also transitioning away from the gender I was assigned at birth. 

I intend for this webcomic (and sometimes blog) to be a place that is friendly and open to others who are also discovering new aspects of themselves, and I want to try to be as honest and open about my experiences as possible. 

The girl you see above is called Endomi. For the most part she is going to be representing me - not the me that others would see if they met me now (they would definitely think of me as male) but the me I feel like inside a lot of the time. I hope that, as I start drawing comics, we can get to know her better together. :3

That’s all for now! Follow to stay tuned for my first comic in the coming fortnight.

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