#Ty for ask… some of these are not hcs im surprised aren’t more popular they’re just hcs i like and have had rolling around in my head

[ssruis]

7 and 12 for the ask game? •v•

12 - favorite NPC:

SEIR💃🏻YU🕺IN💃🏻 SA🕺KU💃🏻RAKO‼️‼️🔛🔝💯

Unless we’re counting nonhuman npcs because I also love nenerobo and usachan. She’s tied with them.

7 - popular hc you disagree with/hc you have that you’re surprised isn’t more popular:

(Under the cut because I don’t shut up)

Do not agree with “kanade is tsukasa’s sibling” at all. It’s cute & no disrespect or hate to the people who enjoy that hc have fun and enjoy yourself. I’ve seen it done well. but as an annoying canon purist I have to say that I think it completely misunderstands both tsukasa’s mindset around being an older brother & his relationship with toya (wrt why he considers toya like a brother).

Tsukasa isn’t adopting younger siblings left and right, he’s just modeled so much of his personality off of being a good older brother that it is deeply entrenched in what he thinks a star should act like. It’s why he places so much importance on being a responsible senior/role model at school. “I want to be a star” & “I want to be a good older brother” get combined in his brain as a kid -> “what a star acts like is (traits that make a good older brother) so I will be doing all of these things when interacting with others” -> he just acts like that now.

He’s very caring & helpful towards everyone but that’s 1) not an “you’re my sibling now” thing 2) often overshadows the fact that he can be pretty self absorbed in fanon. While this helpfulness is definitely genuine and I do think he likes to make other people happy, he also is doing it because it’s how he believes he should be acting as a future star and he likes to be viewed as a responsible mature helpful person. He is doing it for himself AND for others. & notably he’s a lot more likely to show the older-brother-tsukasa side to his close friends & especially his siblings whereas everyone else gets world-future-star-tsukasa.

Toya is his brother because they’ve known each other for like 10 years. And (imo) because there was an unconscious “saki is in the hospital and I can’t do anything to help her and I have nowhere for these big brother tendencies to go. Thankfully there’s a sad little blue thing for me to act like this towards” thing going on in tsukasa’s head & toya was very “sad little blue thing that really needs someone who’s first priority is making toya happy” at that point so these two factors combined to create a very beautiful and strong sibling relationship.

I think half of my beef with it also stems from the fact that this hc often overshadows his relationship with saki (& to a lesser extent toya) in fan works and I adore the relationship tsukasa&saki have so it makes me :(.

Kanade is Tsukasa’s age, they’re both nearly adults, & kanade has niigo and her grandmother to support her. While I think it would be sweet if they became friends I really can’t see them forging a strong bond as it is. Also I know this hc popped up because hirose said he’d want kanade as a sister but I also want to point out that for that same question toki said he’d want tsukasa as a brother iirc. So.

Honorable mentions go to any form of angstkasa, any interpretation of rui&nene drifting apart that places the blame on nene, any hc that makes rui malicious & conniving or emu stupid, “x female character and x male character are siblings” with zero reason for it beyond the fact that for some reason a m/f dynamic can’t be platonic it either has to be familial or romantic, etc.

Hc I have that isn’t more popular… I know it’s probably been disproven in canon, but I like to think that Rui’s mom’s job is very animal focused (zoologist maybe) and this is why he has a fondness for so many strange animals and a wealth of animal facts ready to be deployed at any moment. I also think he watches random documentaries/video essays/podcasts/etc while working on stuff and this is partially why he knows so much random shit.

I also think rui is a dog person (he likes cats he just really likes dogs) & tsukasa is a person who claims to not like cats but is universally loved by cats. like they will not leave him alone. so now he’s fond of them and has become a cat person.

Other assorted ones:

> nene does like physical touch (from friends) she’s just also so so so prone to over thinking every single social interaction that she doesn’t feel comfortable initiating it. so emu being someone who wants to be touching her 24/7 actually works well for her.

> I think emu can ride horses. Her family has horse money and she seems like a kid who would like doing that. She can understand horses… horse whisperer… wxs has to go to a stable for some reason and a super skittish horse approaches emu and really bonds with her & rui is like (looks at emu and the horse) (looks at nene) ahh I see.

> tsukasa would watch and read a lot of musicals/plays/etc when he was home alone as a form of comfort and this is why he talks like that. Still thinking about “parting is such sweet sorrow” or whatever he said to vbs in the new years event like we get it you’re a theatre kid tsukasa.

> nene has some degree of coding knowledge and dabbled in game making in the time period after she froze on stage & before she joined wxs. she never finished making a game because 1. Really hard 2. Anytime she’d be struggling with something it would remind her that she wasn’t as close with rui anymore and she’d get sad

> emu has a lot of random strange talents but because she’s friends with rui “oh i know how to do [thing he has literally zero reason to be good at]” kamishiro this has never been relevant. She could, however, break out her parkour skills at any second (ominous).

> emu’s looney tunes esque parkour skills are a result of going places and climbing things she was not supposed to as a kid. Shes managed to keep her joyous and whimsical outlook and thought process partially because she’s been working at pxl since she was little so she’s constantly interacting with kids.

> nene thinks reptiles are pretty cool but she could never own one because feeding one mice would gross her out & she would die if she had to feed one bugs.

> When wxs were doing their ambassador shows shousuke would get them 2 hotel rooms with 2 beds each but because wxs are pack animals (of the clown genus) emu would frequently drag nene to rui + tsukasa’s room and they would all hang out until tsukasa made them all go to sleep at a reasonable time.

> tsukasa & emu can sleep anywhere anytime. Nene has mild insomnia and rui has both awful insomnia and struggles to sleep unless he’s somewhere familiar. even if he’s dead tired. Somehow the sound of Tsukasa’s cartoonishly loud snoring became familiar enough to rui’s brain that it made it easier for him to sleep.

[arythusa]

Star ASKS!

Hey, I got an unusually high volume of asks related to Star vs. the Forces of Evil this week. I’m replying to some of them in a couple of text posts. Here’s the first one!:

Anonymous said: FanTASTIC job on the song day episode!

Thank you!!

Anonymous said: Ilysm and ty for everything you've done for me and my fellow trans friends!!! 💜💜 im sorry you get aggressive folks coming at because of it. Just know that you're so so so appreciated and im so glad to know that we have a voice for the lgbt community in children media !! No matter what happen with marco know that just the fact that you appreciate the theory is a lot more than we could ever dream of!!💜💜💜💜 and your webcomic is good too you're just a genius tytyty!!

Hey anon! Thank you for your support (and for your kind words about my comic)! U_U I am not trans myself (I am only your friendly neighborhood cisbi) but I hope I can be a supportive trans ally! I of course cannot speak on Marco’s canon development as a character, but as for the fan theory itself, I am glad it is bringing you happiness!

Anonymous said: I love that anon is so entitled that they're telling a storyboard artist which theories they aren't allowed to like on the show they fucking work on

Yep! It would be one thing if I were openly supporting a popular “neo-Nazi Marco” theory or something but . . . that’s not what’s going on. Let people like the fan theories they like! As long as they’re not hurting anyone! 

Anonymous said: Did Ruberiot get killed after song day because he posible started a riot/revolution or is he okay?

No, no, he’s okay! He’s probably just super upset.

Anonymous said: Maybe this is a weird question but I’m really curious. I see that some of the crew likes the trans Marco hc and I’ve also heard that you don’t decide if you include LGBT characters in the show. So I need to ask is Ludo… gay coded? I remember back in season 1 I felt like he had this ‘gay vibe’. When he was around Toffee he looked so enamored with him and I don’t know if it was just my imagination. I’m really sorry if this is a weird question.

This isn’t a weird question! I wasn’t around when Ludo was created, but I don’t believe he was (intentionally) gay coded. But I can absolutely see what you’re talking about, and Ludo does share certain traits with many past animation and live action villains who have been (intentionally or not) gay coded. 

On the other hand, I’m not sure he’s ever specifically identified as straight, so for all we know he could be gay! 

Also you are right in that I don’t really have influence over things like LGBT representation in the shows I work on. It’s complicated.

Anonymous said: Around the end of middle school I started thinking about becoming an animator. People said the best school for that was CalArts so I looked up the shorts and found one called Kagemono. That short was one of the things that made me start taking animation more seriously. Guess how surprised I was to see that you were the one who made it and that I'd found your blog by complete accident! So in a roundabout way, you inspired me to be an animator! Thanks!

You’re very welcome!! I’m glad you liked my film, and good luck on your animation career!!

Anonymous said: you're helping to create content that literally and directly makes my life better thank you

I’m glad my work is helping you!!

Anonymous said: I don't mean to be rude, but I really suggest you shouldn't engage with the fandom so closely, in all my years as a fan, crew members of shows interacting with fans so closely tends to end really badly, fans tend to be volatile if given the opportunity, their entitlement and dehumanization of content creators can go too far. There's multiple accounts on which creators have gotten harassed by fans, from sherlock to avengers crew members, etc. 

You’re probably right! :| I mean, I’ve talked with creators in the past, and they often expressed some mix of confusion or frustration with the drama that can arise from fandom. I will probably disengage a bit if the drama becomes too difficult to handle. 

I don’t want to, though! I like the idea of creators who have an open relationship with their fans . . . even if, in practice, the bad apples end up spoiling the bunch. 

Speaking of which: I knew this would happen eventually, but an anon accused me of queerbaiting. Their specific language was something like, “You are obviously queerbaiting. I’m SO glad you have NO creative power.” 

I find this very frustrating for several reasons:

1) I am a queer woman of color. I’m not saying I don’t have blind spots, because everyone does, but I am very personally invested in bringing real LGBT representation into the work I do. 

2) Also, it’s been brought up before in reference to people like Lauren Zuke: the internet has a knack for crying “queerbaiting!” on queer creators. 

3) I actually do have a small amount of creative power as a storyboard artist, but not nearly enough to influence things like character arcs or basic facts of new characters (such as sexuality and gender identity). If I did, I assure you I would be pushing for representation wherever possible. 

4) I have made absolutely no claims or statements regarding the canon....ness of the trans marco theory. The small amount of semi-public participation I’ve had in that part of the community has been to show support for a fan theory that seems to make people happy. 

5) In the last few days I’ve been accused of being a crazy lying feminist, a “Fucking Trans” Marco theorist, AND a queerbaiter. I’m a little tired of being on the internet right now.