#I have a lot of art from both Bea and Laz's design phases

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Hello! I have a B&R question!

I love Bea's design SO MUCH. You have given my soul so much healing thanks to how realistically/non-fetishy you draw her and STILL make her look sexy when she wants to give sexy. I hate how rare that is, but this is the world we live in and you're doing important work.

I was kind of surprised when I first saw a selfie of you and saw you're not of a similar size. I KNOW HOW THAT SOUNDS. What I mean is that it's rare to see such good fat representation from an artist who doesn't themself walk that particular life. So my question is what drove you to create Bea the way she is now?

I'm sending this off anon to hopefully show this is entirely out of good faith curiosity. You could say "I just felt like it!" or nothing at all and I'll still love B&R and Bea. You don't NEED a reason to make her, but I would love to hear your thoughts as her artist if you'd like to share 💜

Hey!

I'm always so happy to hear when Bea's made a positive impact in someone's life, whether it be through her story or just her existing!

As for Bea's character design, it's sort of a combination of "I just felt like it" and also she was technically a pre-existing OC I had made initially for a DND campaign that I repurposed for BnR because her character silhouette was a really good contrast to Laz's spindly, noodley one. I thought they had good shape dynamics, and I still do!

(old art, obviously)

Bea and Lazareth were designed together to be good visual compliments! So that's why, basically.

I also, at the time of making Bea's VERY FIRST DESIGN, when she was just a tiefling I was gonna play-

-was my first "plus size" body type (as you can see, she's filled out a lot more as her concept was developed). When I was younger, I used to be pretty arrogant about my "body diversity" in my characters, and at one point someone here on Tumblr, on Anon, came into my ask and essentially told me to shut up bc I only drew thin or buff people.

Definitely not the nicest way to put it, and I was pretty upset at first, but after I calmed down, I realized they did have a point. So I made Bea, and then, as I explained above, ended up using her for BnR!