#I cannot draw ponytails for the life of me tho...

[akechis-special-case]

A Special Treat For A Special Someone

Because Goro definitely deserves it!

Also finished this on White Day too, funnily enough so... Happy White Day I guess!

Blank color + Lineart

[onesentencemusings]

Ayyyooo, I have been a quiet fan of your “Return of Jafar” rewrite series, and to be honest reading the story has made me a bit inspired to come out of my artist block by creating fanart! However, I went back to reread the first chapter and I realized there was not much physical description of the Nomad. The only description was in the most recent update, but it I was wondering if you had more ideas regarding her appearence. Would you be able to provide a physical description of her (and maybe the princess in the beginning as well)? I would like to be as accurate as possible (I know I could be creative with it, but I would still like your thoughts regardless!) Keep up the great work so far, I cannot wait for future chapters!

(Also as I was writing this, I realized that I was not aware of the Nomad’s name. Was her name said at any point? Tbh my memory is kinda bad. If not would you reveal her name in the future? Thanks!!)

First of all

You cannot understand how much it means to have someone offer to draw my characters. I think every writer dreams of someone loving their stuff enough to draw for them, but to have it happen, especially for my little rewrite of a movie most Disney fans would probably be happy to forget, it means so much!

The only reason it took me a bit to answer is because I promised myself if anyone asked to draw my characters or if I ever commissioned someone, I'd draw them a reference... even tho I can't really draw. But as someone dating an artist, I know a badly drawn ref is better than nothing.

So these are a few refs for the Nomad (she hasn't actually said her name yet but that's coming soon):

Top I did in Kitra, bottom 2 I did in pen. (I kinda like the 'personality' the pen sketches have but the digital's a lot cleaner and clearer)

Written-out description: She's 30 years old and from a glance you can't tell where she's from (even she's not sure what her family ethnicity is) but I usually picture her as South Asian with darker skin. She's nothing special physically (average weight/height) but a life of hard work makes her stronger and more durable than she looks. Any hair not held back in her ponytail is a scattered mess yet somehow what is in the ponytail seems to always form a single curl. Maybe it's magic, maybe it Maybelline (or maybe it's just really dirty).

As for Princess Dia'mah, I never had a lot in mind for her design originally. Frankly she was just supposed to be a Mcguffin at the start but I guess I made her too precious and people liked her. But since you asked...

Dia'mah is 14, light tan, very slender for her age with hair a lot like Jasmine's (call it the style of the time period). Since she's a few years younger than Jasmine (and I never liked the overly revealing "belly dancer" outfit the original Jasmine wears), I picture Dia'mah having something closer to the live action Jasmine wears but while Jas is emulating a peacock, Dia'mah is inspired by a flamingo. All pink, lots of layers and fabric coming off her arms to look like wings . She probably also had large diamond earrings to recall her homeland's namesake of "The Land of Diamonds" but Abys Mal is the kind of jerk to steal jewels off a little girl so I'll let you decide if you want her to have them or not.

You ARE welcome to take artistic liberties where I haven't filled any particular detail in, just fyi, but you're very welcome to ask me about anything. I'm always looking for an excuse to talk about my characters. Again thank you so SO much for asking to draw my characters! It really means the world to me!

[ilikemesometaetaes]

OH MY GOD BABY KISSES OF GRAPHITE IS SO GOOD I CANT EVEN EXPLAIN THE FEELINGS I HAVE RIGHT NOW PLEASE YOU ARE SO TALENTED

the concept of this fic is so unique 😭 sexy brain I guess - I’m obsessed with how you characterised MC in this and how she slowly develops with each feature - I can’t lie when I read the blurb I didn’t expect this. Now I am frustrated I didn’t read this masterpiece earlier. Again i cannot begin to explain how beautiful this piece of work is- literally every part is a work of art I’m so proud of you for this! I like how she kind of reflects you too especially with the not liking kids and liking thunderstorms haha x

No but the way the MC was made as a reflection of JK throughout this - truly meant to be 😭 like even when she gives up when she fully acknowledges he has too but not on her but given up on himself BUT BECAUSE SHE GIVES UP TOO BECAUSE SHE LIVES FOR HIM (and because of him) so poetic oh my.

and apologies if this is not the right place to say it but PONYTAIL JK HE CAN RIP ME APART TO SHREDS AND THE PIERCING - YOU THINK YOU CAN JUST PUT THAT IN THERE AND I’LL BE OK??

AND HOSEOK ‘don’t worry love’ CALL ME LOVE AND I WILL FALL IN LOVE PLEASE THIS MAN IS GOING TO MAKE ME DELUSIONAL 🤭♥️

AND THEN WHEN JK HAD THE AUDACITY TO THINK HE IS NOT LOVABLE OH - it made it even worse when he kind of reflects the jk we see irl with him liking JB and just generally being good at art and everything. That is another thing I love about your writing: how you incorporate these little characterisations into your characters - it just makes it so much more enjoyable to read. BUT THE ANGST IN THIS OH DEAR MY LITTLE HEART CANNOT TAKE IT - it’s so well written especially from the point of jk where he continues to stay in his state of emptiness even after all these years - it just goes to show the power of one’s mind and being helpless and trapped within the confines of your own mind!

And MC too when she fades into nothingness - it kind of felt like she gave up on herself and she also became trapped within her mind- like it truly clicked that she could not do anything for him whilst inside the paper (again this concept is so wild and you have just written something so beautiful)

OH AND WHEN SHE CALLED HIM ‘MY ARTIST’ LIKE NOT EVEN AS HER CREATOR BUT HER OWN MANSSS HER OWN LITTLE ARTIST JK OH MY GOD IM CRYING ACTUAL TEARS I LOVE THIS PAIR SO MUCH I WILL START FIGHTING FOR THEM PLEASE

oh and the smut 👀 absolute perfection. no words. empty mouth (sadly) (jk) (unless...). you never disappoint with this and I can’t lie I do look forward to whenever you write smutty fics ahaha whoops

BUT OVERALL THIS IS A WORK OF ART AND IF I COULD RELIVE THE FEELING THAT THIS GAVE ME WHILST READING IT FOR THE FIRST TIME AGAIN I WOULD SO LOVE TOO. THE ANGST WAS BEAUTIFUL BUT THE BUILD UP WAS IMMACULATE. THEY BOTH ARE SO PERFECT INDIVIDUALLY AND FOR EACH OTHER AND I CRY FOR JK (oh my and how he has teary eyes like I can just imagine his wide eyes just glistening noooo 😭😭😭) BUT YES THIS IS PERECT THANK YOU FOR WRITING THIS AND THIS CONCEPT IS JUST OUT OF THIS WORLD. SUCH A GOOD AUTHOR AND I HOPE YOU PRAISE YOURSELF FOR WRITING THIS (and if you ever get the time I would love to hear your through process or inspo behind this?!).

I LOVE YOU.

I hope you’re looking after yourself tho lovely ♥️♥️

Stay safe cutie xx

HI THERE LOVE! I’M SO GLAD YOU ENJOYED IT! I was really worried about how this story would settle with my readers, but I’m glad that it’s been received well!

I came up with this idea after watching the music video for Take On Me by aha lol. I watched it for the thousandth time and wondered… hmmm… what was so special about the drawing that it came to life?… and what would happen if the drawing wasn’t able to contact the viewer nor move? (Obviously, because I love angst) What would happen then?

Thus, the idea of KOG was born.

Yes, ponytail Jeon fucking Jungkook can tear people apart… @ressjeon… fuck off.

But yes, the idea of Kook being her artist was always an idea of mine that I wanted to incorporate ever since I started relating Jungkook with Titanic. “Paint me like one of Your French girls.” That type of thing, you know? I wanted to find some way to make it happen without making it too close to Theophany.

To be honest with you, a lot of my smut is inspired by real events… hehe… 😈😏 Ya girl gets some action once in a while.

I hope that KOG is a piece you can read over and over again… I try to make stories that give you a different interpretation every time you read so that they may never get old. One can only wish to achieve that level of artistry.

I can go into more detail about my writing process if you wish, as I do with all of my stories, but I always listen to a certain song when I write my stories. It’s how I make my stories- by envisioning a music video to the songs with our Korean men as the stars with OC.

I hope to hear from you soon, anon. As always, much love! 🖤

[ryuijsakamoto]

I just would like to take a moment to talk about my fave headcanons i have for all the characters

Akira:

he is the most OVER DRAMATIC bitch on this earth

he definitely did theatre at some point in his life

after his arrest he sometimes gets really nervous and has trouble conveying his words. he stumbles over them and cant convey his point well

ann and haru like to braid his hair sometimes

when he was younger he faked not being able to see so he could get glasses, it didnt work tho

so hence now he wears fashion glasses

he had braces in middle school

there is One(1) picture of middle school akira. One

he 1000000000% believes in ghosts and has since he was a child

aliens though? not real.

takes lots of selfies when he moves back and sends them to his friends often

biggest flirt but if u flirt back with him he. Dies cannot talk his face is fully red and hes hiding behind his hands

takes every opportunity to visit his friends 

claims hes not a sap but futuba swears she saw him crying over a handwritten thank you card from ‘’that one arcade kid names the kind or smth’’

Ryuji:

when he was a kid he has a fluffy mess of hair similar to akiras and it was the cutest thing ever

he needs reading glasses but no one knows because hes embarrassed by them

he likes to doodle on papers, hes not an artist but he likes to make dorky quick drawings in the corner of his paper

he has trouble focuing sometimes and likes to tap his foot silently or draw lines on paper to help him focus

calls yusuke and akira pretty boy by habit, it started as teasing but then it just became a Habit

he keeps every gift his friends give him and therye very dear to him

he has akira help him dye his hair

when one of his friends is gone / in danger he doesnt dye his hair again until he knows theyre safe

his mom sewed his purple jacket for him herself

he likes to cook and bake

he hold his bros..bro come cuddle me...he very affectionate with his friends and casually touches like hugs, hands over shoulders, etc.

sings to himself when hes alone

Ann:

she has a pretty popular instagram account

she has really bad handwriting

like ryuji, very affectionate 

she loves beanies and wears them especially in the snow

likes to make pointless arguments with ryuji sometimes, stuff like is water wet?

likes to curl her hair over breaks, thinks it looks cute

she loves to watch sappy romance and drama shows / movies

she stress eats

hates when people attack her friends on her instagram 

she has pet fish 

she picked up gardening from haru, its only a small plants and she forgets to water it sometimes but shes trying her best

Yusuke:

he is secretly a sucker for cutely decorated sweets

he had a small anime phase, not that he told madarame, but he has a box full of his old anime drawings and he will Never show them to anyone

he, like ryuji, sometimes drawes in the corners of his papers

unlike ryuji his are more detailed n not as dorky, its usually a detailed flower pattern or something of the sorts

he straightens and dyes his hair

his room? full of art pieces and posters u cannot see his original walls

he always has his phone on dnd and forgets to check it for days sometimes

he has 5 pairs of the same shirt, each one for a different occasions (they all look the same though...we dont ask why)

when he gets too worried over his art and stuff usually his friends will drag him out of his room and make him go eat with them

his friends pictures in his phones are hand-drawn little sketches he did

when hes concentrating really hard he puts his bangs into a ponytail so they dont fall in his face

so clumsy. he trips over everything

Makoto:

got through school before highschool without having to study

is not good with change

loves cute plushies and clothes

is Tired please give her a break

when Sae notices shes overexerting herself she makes sure to leave some of makotos favorite food and a small note for makoto on her bed

she just loves her sister very much

actually really likes spicy foods

u mention around her youre having trouble in school? not getting enough rest? forgot your lunch? Mom Mode Makoto activated

when shes alone she can curse up a storm

likes to play poker

is really good at talking to people and keeping up frienships

after highschool she is always busy u wanna hangout? she has 2 available days for the next 5 months

Futuba:

she has braces. she despises them

a very picky eater

sometimes she falls back into her old habits of hiding and isolating herself, when that happens shes learned to text someone and they sit outside her door and talk to her untill shes feeling better

cries easily, especially over characters and shows

has a phantom thieves fan account

when morgana and akira move away she gets a cat plushy because she misses her friends

shows everyone so many fun online things, discord? they have s discord gc because of her

akira has to remind her to drink water and fix her posture too much

wants to cosplay

shes really nervous for her first day of school but joker texts her all throughout the day even if he got in trouble for it

surprisingly a morning person

Haru:

she Runs on caffeine

likes to spoil her friends, yusuke spent all his money again? heres enough to get home and also buy a 3 course meal 

works at a plant shop even though she doesnt really need to because she loves being around plants

plays piano and cello

touch starved pls hug her PLEASE

likes to fish

cutest laugh please protect her

also dabbled in acting, though hers was more classical stuff like shakespear

she loves golf and swimming

knows how to fight and will do so if needed

she bullet journals

Akechi (in general + if he got to stay with the pt):

actually doesnt have a strong opinion on pancakes, just was really feeling like eating pancakes that day when he overheard morgana

he loves the praise he gets but the spotlight is exhausting

shido told him long hair didnt look good on him once so now he refuses to cut it out of spite

loves to watch gordan ramsey, thinks its hilarious

Bottles up his emotions like crazy

actually really caring towards his friends, always checking up on them and making sure theyre taking care of themselves

loves shit talking his dad, esp with ryuji haru and yusuke who join him and shit talk their own father figures

he wears colored contacts

writes poetry, no one knows this though

cannot back down from a bet, tell him that he wont eat that spoonful of wasabi? hes choking it down with tears but at least he proved you wrong

kinda very incredibly petty

a big fan of mythology, he looked into it after getting his loki persona

loves movie dates with the phantom theives

[alwaysraineh]

hey Rachel!! 10, 11, 28, and 40 for the oc game but in relation to Veridis and Haroch from your one wip Oslasil? hope you've been doing well!! :))

cam you are my lord and savior and i can never express how deeply i adore you thank you so so so much for this ask!!! i hope you’re doing well also!!!

send me a number and an oc!!!

10. What is their favourite room to be in, in the house they live in?

ahh thats kinda hard bc neither of them actually live anywhere permanent for the majority of the series lol but they do end up in the palace for a while and haroch is really fond of the library. he can’t read, but he likes the quiet and the smell of the books and the idea that so much knowledge is stored in one place. veridis, on the other hand, hates being inside but hates the city more, so he spends a lot of time on the various balconies until he discovers how peaceful the palace garden is. his favorite spot to sit is this little nook hidden behind a few of the larger shrubs beside a fountain.

11. Do they believe in luck?

veridis believes in bad luck for sure! but he doesn’t think there’s such thing as ‘good’ luck, or that it would come to him if it were real. he definitely thinks bad luck clings to his very being though. 

haroch is more optimistic!! he doesn’t believe in luck, per se, but he believes in the gods and thinks that they either influence things (good luck) or allow them to happen (back luck). in a way, he’s more right than veridis!! but neither of them know that.

28. If they could have one wish, what would they wish for?

veridis wants some god damn peace and quiet. he’s an old soul.

lol no but he does wish he could escape his past. he doesn’t want to live a life dictated by his ‘birthright’ or his family name so i think he’d wish for a chance to start his life fresh with no expectations

haroch wishes that veridis would generate some serotonin already!!!!! he just wants his best friend to be happy!!!!!!! also he wants to see his uncle more often and get his littlest sister away from their toxic family because she deserves better than the life of a pig farmer’s daughter

40. If I wanted to draw them, what would be distinct physical features that I would have to know to draw them correctly?

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh okay so veridis predominantly wears green and brown, clothes that are easy to move in and light enough to travel with, and he carries a dagger with a green hilt. he’s got brown skin and olive green eyes, and his hair is brown and curly. he typically keeps it down to cover his ears (pointy!! half-elf, bb!) or pulled into a ponytail bc it’s right around shoulder-length, and he has the delicate bone structure of snow elves. also the bags under his eyes are a constant presence bc boy does not know how to regulate his sleep schedule. very lean overall and kind of wiry and angular. sharp elbows. not exactly prime for cuddling but that’s fine bc he does not know how to cuddle. he’s worse at that than sleeping. ALSO has a slightly crooked smile?? its very cute. he never learned how to smile big so he has a really shy smile that starts quirky at the corner of his mouth and stays that way 

haroch tends to wear a loose white shirt with a black vest and always carries a leather satchel with the few things he owns in it. he has messy black hair and golden hazel eyes, plus freckles across his cheeks and  h e l l a  freckles on the back of his neck and his shoulders. boy was raised on a farm, he’s got that perpetual tan from working outside. v strong but you can’t quite tell by looking at him??? back muscles, tho. boy can throw a haybale and lift a pig. he’s got thick eyebrows and lashes, plus high cheekbones and a sharp jaw. human af. cannot control the puppy-dog eyes when he sees veridis

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Ok so.. I feel really ungrateful as fuck saying this.. but it kinda bugs me how much perrin being nonbinary just.. isn’t really shown at all.

At least, in what i’ve seen so far, yknow? I watched the first ep of someone else’s let’s play to see if i was gonna like this game, and i like this game SO MUCH that I stopped right there and am downloading it at the speed of light yo!!! My hype is maximum and I really don’t want this to be seen as a hate message or anything, it's just a mild opinion piece about something that bummed me out a little, as a nonbinary person.

Ok so.. again, this makes me sound like an ASSHOLE but I have to say it.. Perrin looks like a boy. 100% of all LPers I have seen have assumed they were a boy. I, a nonbinary person, assumed they were a boy. (And felt like absolute shit afterwards, man I still have to work on my internalized gender stereotypes!)

Now in real life I absolutely wouldn’t go around being some douchebag who tells other NB folk they aren’t dressing ‘right’, or whatever. In real life people can feel very different ways about being outside of conventional gender norms. Some people feel like “both at once” or “neither” or “something else entirely that doesn’t touch either side of our society’s current binary stereotypes”. And regardless of whether you’re agender/bigender/genderfluid or any other type of genderqueer person, your fashion sense doesn’t have to fit any strict rule to “prove” it to people. Some people try and dress in androgenous stuff, some people try to mix parts of both gendered fashion worlds, some people like to wear very neutral baggy stuff as a different way of being androgenous, some people like to wear wild and fun stuff that never had any gender stereotype in the first place/because it helps them feel confident in themself if they have a big brave kind of fashion, yknow? (that’s why I dyed my hair at least, and why I think a lot of lGBT people do) And of course, some people just prefer ‘feminine’ or ‘masculine’ clothes regardless of not being that gender, and if we can accept that cis women can enjoy ‘tomboy’ fashion then we should accept that trans people don’t have to fit into even more rigid fashion rules in order to ‘earn’ their gender.

BUT this isn’t real life, it’s a videogame

We have a lot more context here, with the context that this is a character designed within a fandom whose previous attempts at NB representation have kinda started setting up a trend. In that context, this is a bit worrying that it’s happened again, and maybe future fangame creators are feeling like they have to do it, or something?

Like the NB protagonist Pluto in Pokemon Uranium.

They’re still someone I deeply love, but their design looks incredibly masculine aside from a side ponytail. If anything their design communicates more that they’re a younger option compared to the other two, or something?

And the two NB protagonist options Ari and Decibel in Pokemon Reborn

Their designs look like more traditionally masculine and feminine-leaning ways of being nonbinary, ykno? And that wouldn’t be bad on it’s own, but let me try and explain what I mean...

A similar issue occurs in the unrelated dating sim Hustle Cat:

Which is generally incredibly progressive and actually the first dating sim I’ve ever seen that lets you play a nonbinary protag! But you still get only two character models to choose from.

Like it’s great that they had two options to aknowledge how not all trans people are the same, but it starts to look a bit.. odd, when those two options are ‘feminine and masculine’ and no form of androgenous is ever an option. or even like.. someone with a ‘masculine’ body build but a ‘feminine’ fashion sense. That would be kind of a stereotypical way to depict a trans character but it wouldn’t just be making a random design that could fit amoungst the already existing gendered protags and then just saying they’re trans. And a lot of people found it weird how these ones seem to be drawn as like.. both on the far masculine end, just a cis man and a trans man.

Like.. even as a nonbinary person myself, I wouldn’t have known these characters were nonbinary if you hadn’t told me. And that leaves me feeling horrible about myself that I judged them on first sight, but I mean this is within a genre of entertainment that’s literally never had any Me in it and i’ve got used to being all ‘no you’re just reading too much into it’ whenever i headcanon anyone as genderqueer...

And just.. I feel like if you’re gonna just draw another two masculine and feminine looking characters, or just a second masculine one (or a weird two masculine ones that’re labelled male and female with no option for in-between...) then couldn’t you have saved time by just letting us choose our pronouns for the two you already had? like I already play a lot of games headcanoning the protag as just a masc-fashion version of my enby self, I feel like kinda the point of adding a third design would be to make it something the others aren’t already delivering. Look at it this way, you already HAVE two nonbinary characters who look masculine and feminine, just like the player could also play them as a trans boy and trans girl. Pronoun selector box is the greatest invention of our time! So what I’m really saying is not “don’t have super masc NB protags” but just “can we have another option too?”

Oh, but then that’s also been done not-so-well by certain games too.. Awesome amazing multiplayer party game dating sim Monster Prom let’s you choose your pronouns!

...except these are your only character options! All of these are very clearly intended to be read as masc or femme, you’re probably gonna feel dysphoric as heck if you play them as trans, and none of them work super well as nonbinary either. I think pretty much every NB player has always gone for Oz (yellow one), cos he’s the one that’s most capable of fitting that headcanon just by virtue of being perpetually shadowed. Tho still his default is “he” pronouns, his fashion sense is masc and his voice is masc. Still I’m really fuckin proud of the fandom for collectively latching onto NB Oz and using “they” all the time in fanworks, and then the developers being okay with it, like holy shit man you healed my goddamn heart... <3

Still, it makes me feel a lil like this would have been easy to fix? like I’m not saying redraw everything to have them all change bodies/fashion style depending on your pronoun choice, but like.. maybe just not draw them with such super disparate body styles in the first place? like in this style every girl is hourglass and has weird legs out arms out pose, and every dude is a chunkfest with twice as big hands and feet. Like you could have maybe just made two of the characters be a very curvy girl and a very buff boy, and then the other two be more neutral in appearance but still retaining the same designs. Like I think if you just gave the blue girl a baggier shirt that doesn’t highlight her boobs and hips so much, she could easily be my favourite ‘most NB-able’ design! maybe also tone down the eyelash and lipstick effects?

I think probably a similar thing could have been done with the Reborn protagonists? like there’s nothing inherantly feminine about wearing a tanktop and having a fancy undercut hairstyle and such, its just the way they drew Ari that makes them look feminine. I guess maybe that’s a necessary evil of fangames, since they usually use edits of already existing characters from the games? Then again the games have plenty of androgenous characters already, even if nobody is canonically confirmed as LGBT. *shrug*

Anyway

I absolutely am not trying to nitpick and attack the game for not being perfect in this one aspect. i’m still super excited to even see someone like me in a videogame at all, and I’m definately not one of those people who’s like ‘I’d rather have nothing than have something flawed’. I already admire you greatly for what you’ve done for the inclusivity of this fandom, and I hope that my discussion of this stuff doesn’t discourage you from continuing.

And I guess my point is, in summary

What I mean is not “there are no nonbinary people who prefer to dress masculine instead of androgenous”, but instead that when you’re designing a nonbinary person as the only option a nonbinary player gets or the only nonbinary person in the game, with no playable option, it would probably be a little better to draw them androgenous.

Like, you’ve put that NB character into the role of representing all nonbinary people ever, to the hypothetical audience of people who’ve never heard of the concept before and aren’t super educated about the intricacies of gender presentation. And then also rather than using traditionally gendered outfits to aknowledge that NB people have many ways to present themselves... you’ve given us less ways to present ourselves.

Also it’s a little bit odd that you have an NB rival but said “we’re not ever considering an NB player option in the future”. Sorry but I cannot understand the logic? Like.. you know NB people play your game if you wanted to put NB representation in it, but you didn’t put it as playable because... reasons?? I hope maybe that interview was just taken out of context and you meant something more like “it’s not planned for now because it’s a lot of work and the game is still in its demo stage”, which is absolutely an understandable reason and how Uranium and Reborn did it. But Uranium and Reborn were kinda odd for being a world where literally nobody else aside from you could ever be NB, so I am really grateful that your game did add an NB character. And one in a big role!! This is what i mean about how grateful I am and how I feel awful that my bad internet typing skills are making this post come off as more aggressive than intended.. *sigh*

OH and also maybe a tip for Periin? just.. like.. mention their pronouns. It’s really frustrating to watch everyone doing let’s plays of this thing and constantly assuming Perrin is male because their design is very masculine. Even me! Even me was assume! :( So like... maybe just have Perrin actually tell the audience that they are nonbinary at some point, during this introduction? or have the protagonist’s inner monologue mention it, or another character mention it on the way towards meeting Perrin? like I dunno, maybe a Perrin fan npc?cos it would seem a bit more natural to talk about gender if it’s someone saying “wow I admire Perrin’s androgenous fashion sense” rather than like.. a stranger saying “i can’t tell if you’re a boy or a girl from your face”.

I can understand how it can be tricky to figure out how to introduce a LGBT character’s LGBT-ness without having them go around saying it to every new person they meet, it’s something I’ve had to fix in the editing process even as a trans person writing trans characters. But just having their gender only be mentioned on missable promotional material outside the game means that a lot of players won’t ever hear about it, and it like.. has zero impact of actual inclusivity on the game. It’s why people were angry about DUmbledore only getting revealed as gay after the series already ended. Him being gay missed all of its chances to make gay readers of the series feel welcome, or have any part of his character be informed by his sexuality. like the plot between him and grindlewold could have been way more effective if it was him losing a boyfriend to the dark arts, just sayin...

anyway whatever, bunni is bad at writing coherant posts in summary thanks for perrin and sorry for whining about perrin, aaaaa