#BTW if you can translate Pleakley's Tantalog magazine title you win

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So I redrew a thing this evening!

A good while back, in my studies of EPCOT and olden Disney Parks history for my "Stitch Triverse" project, I came across this shirt when I was looking into Journey Into Imagination. This shirt, titled "Girl Watcher", features a beachcombing Figment who appears to be scouting the riff raff on the beach for a partner. Of course, it was the 1980s, so it had to be girls, but when you really think about it, Figment has the opportunity to be the pan icon most don't think of: imagination could make him love anyone, right?

Fast forward years later and when I created my Royals, Keiko Hubrecht became one of my mainstays upon their creation in 2021. An alien humanoid called a Luxian from the Auros system, Keiko became someone who took a ton of inspiration from Journey Into Imagination and by extent, Figment. In continuing my mission on expanding on the L&S realms and with a unique touch of LGBT in the mix, Luxians are genderfluid and don't contend to gender norms (they can appear more masculine or effeminate, but not in identity, they/them, please). They are also incredibly well known for their powerful imagination-based abilities, able to spawn duplicates of themselves, bend or warp things around them or that they can grab to whatever they can dream up and even change or modify aspects of themselves. But that's if they can get the time to imagine before doing, this is key. Kei by extent is hyperactive, happy-go-lucky and also, get this, an intergalactic indie musician by the name of "Figment"... Yes indeed, named after one in the same.

So with summer literally here, I took the gambit and decided to redraw "Girl Watcher". Now it bears saying that Kei, while hyperactive and all over the place with their energy, does have the light penchant for outbursts of hopeless romance. So it only further helped them be the reflection of Figment in this redraw. But by that extent? I couldn't use the words "Girl Watcher" for the result because they're not a girl or a boy. But they do love everyone almost akin to someone on the side of pan. So what do you use?

"Crush Watcher". It's inclusive, covers all of what Kei crushes on and above all, acts as a parallel to the Figment 1982 original. Now, the question remains, who has got the Luxian's eyes in the design? Is it a hunky Neptusian boy? Some geeky Kweltikwan lass? And why, pray tell, are they taking advice from Pleakley via a self-published magazine?

...All these and more questions are up to you, I just wanted to draw a fun redraw with my imaginative idol kid and I think I did a good job with it~ 🐉🌈🏖️

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