#anyway I’ll be crawling back into my hamster burrow now

[anoddopal]

!Ranty Ramble:

NGL I feel kinda guilty about the idea of finishing the drawings of FemTr.opy I’ve been sitting on…

To clarify, I’ve always drawn her with hair (and though I don’t always state it I’ve also headcanoned it IS thinning and she WILL be bald in the future) but ever since it’s been revealed she was designed with the intention of being bald in the first place I feel icky about the idea of continuing to draw her as I originally have.

The FemTr.opy I depict is VERY MUCH a variant of the one in canon, yet another AU version, if you will. For instance, she still has her hands (though they are severely scarred and she often uses robotic aids to help with her dexterity. She also has bizarre traits such as aposematism and black sclera + other unusual characteristics; side effects from (willingly) being a test subject for her timeline Brio’s potions).

The point is that she’s quite different from the one in canon. And while I’ve come up with a lot of unusual headcanons for her, I feel as though continuing to give her hair would be in bad taste? I feel as though that would imply bald individuals, specifically women, are not beautiful. Which is NOT true and NOT a view I want to accidentally project.

I could always say it’s a wig she chooses to wear sometimes- not because she feels she needs it, but because sometimes she merely wants to wear one. But idk.

Basically I’m stuck between: “It’s an AU version, I’ll do what I want” and “I need to be respectful to canon”. And the last thing I want to do is disrespect my queen 🙏- or even worse, unintentionally hurt an irl individual’s feelings.

Thank you for coming to my confused, overthought. neurodivergent rant. I’ll probably be thinking about this for a while longer.