#reclaimed characters

[yourfaveisintersex]

Ryo Asuka from the Devilman series is canonically intersex-coded! While the depiction is offensive in nature (notably being referred to by the H-slur multiple times in source, and most basis towards intersexuality is his Satan form having both breasts & a penis), this request is made with reclaimatory intent.

The requester @venisonghost elaborates on their headcanon: "I figure he could have ambiguous genitals like we discussed, and/or an androgen insensitivity which resulted in gynecomastia?"

[yujateaandpi]

Gobbled up the Dandadan anime and manga recently and absolutely adored it all. Not only does it feature the most likable and strongly written female characters I’ve ever seen in a shonen, it discusses extremely pertinent themes about consent and bodily autonomy from a lens of female solidarity while also elevating healthy relationships with kind communicative male characters who respect boundaries. It’s wacky, fun, gorgeous, and super refreshing. 

[critterbitter]

Introducing! ELESA, the new kid on the block! She's a tiny bedraggled child from Sinnoh and not all that familiar with Galarian, the spoken language in Unova. (One day she'll be amazing. Right now though, she just wants to go play in the mud. And maybe get a better set of hearing aids.)

When not bitterly lonely, she’s scheming to run back to her old home. Or chasing the local patrat. Or watching nervously from the sidelines as other children play on the swings. Oh elesa. (loosely inspired by @/noxstrages' incredible comics about elesa's origins! Ty for the food.)

Masterpost to my submas comics!

[kyr0v]

this is CD :] he’s gonna be my DND character for the campaign my best friend is dmming !!

[xamag-draws]

[OCs] [NOT hom3stuck] october is her month 💀✨

[waterdroid]

Rion and Dessa frienderisms! They're so funny to me ❤️

[so-i-did-this-thing]

Hello Nicholas!

If you don't mind me asking, why did you choose the name Nicolas? Idk I just like learning why people who've picked their own names made the choice they did

(I have the incredibly silly reason of "it was given to me in a Minecraft server because it was shorter than my username and the movie Life of Pi had just come out." So now I'm Pi, and I have been for like 12 years. I didn't even like the movie that much, and the friend group all went their separate ways after high school. Fun fact, the guy who ran the Minecraft server was in my class, and he went by Link. His "real" name is Nathan. Even the teachers called him Link, and that's what was on his assignments. It was too the point where we had a substitute who did attendance, and Link almost got marked absent because he didn't realize that the sub had called his name because it said Nathan on the paper. Which is valid and honestly I'd love to reach the point where my deadname is so detached from me that I don't even realize somebody is talking about me. Also, he was Link because he loves Legend of Zelda)

Oh ho, it's Nick Lore time!

I don't internalize my own name. My inner monologue doesn't work like that. Never has. Dunno if that was from dysphoria or the autism. So, what to call myself has always been strange.

When I was a little kid, I masculinized my birth name of "Jamie Nicole" to "James Nicholas" because it was convenient. My nickname was actually "James", and this made me gender euphoric, even though the name didn't fit me.

My first real "secret boy name" was Garet, after the Weapons Master character in the Shannara book series. I just thought he was cool. I was a teenager and still into edgelord fantasy characters. It's kind of funny how in fantasy, this is a stock "rogue" name.

In college, I started toying seriously with what to call myself. It's no secret on this blog that I love the All Creatures Great & Small book series. I saw a lot of both myself at the time and who I wanted to be in the character of Siegfried Farnon, and wanted to take his name. But I also felt it might be a Bit Too Much, and tried his brother's name - Tristan - on for size. I liked it a lot. I was ready to commit.

Family and friends... did not take my coming out very well. Not with violence, but with either lukewarm reception or a desire for it all to just Go Away. Even the "supporters" at the time felt the need to tell me they didn't like my choice of name. It was devastating. I couldn't bear the thought of the name, Tristan, anymore - what should have been joy became shorthand for my rejection. I think that's a big part of why I pushed this particular piece of comfort media away for many years, despite it being so formative and literally sanity-saving to me as a kid.

So, I stuck with my gender neutral birth name (and sucked up having a feminine middle name) for ages. Until I was in my 40s. Then it become too much to bear. Hearing my birth name felt like the death of a thousand cuts.

I will admit I compromised again a bit in the end. I went back to a masculinized birth name, I just switched the order to "Nicholas James". I wanted to assert myself to my mother (who wanted me to be "James") and I did genuinely like "Nicholas". I like having a name structure where there is a formal ("Nicholas"), informal ("Nick"), and diminutive version ("Nicky") in the name. There's also a fictional Nick that I love (Nick Valentine from Fallout 4.) I won't lie, I still think it'd be fun and affirming to go back to Tristan or commit to Siegfried, but I don't want to go through the entire social and legal process again, especially because with the former I know I will get shade for being the sort of autistic that is a sponge wrt fictional character traits, and with the latter, I worry it will put me on government Lists. I do like being called Nicholas/Nick -- it is affirming and it does finally feel like my own name. And hey, "James" is the name of another character I loved in my precious book series, so I have that box checked as well.

I still don't call myself anything in my internal monologue, though. Brains are weird.

But the tldr; here, which I think you have also alluded to, is that how we name ourselves doesn't have to be seen as cringe and it's very easy to just roll with someone's choice. And god knows parents name their kids after fictional characters and random concepts all the time. Naming yourself is both affirming and vulnerable, not just along the cis/trans axis. So, don't be a dick when someone tells you they want to be called [name].

[biggielean]

REVERSE FALLS REDESIGNS!

i finally finished my full cast for my revamp-ification of this au augh

1st image (left to right): Pacifica Southeast, Gideon Gloom, Bud Gloom, and Duece

2nd image (left to right): Thompson, Fiddleford H. McGucket, Tambry and Old Man Sixer

[dieubius]

i was thinking that bruce should bring around a spare bat shaped domino mask everywhere for emergencies >:) but one thing lead to another and now i have clark yearning over cowl hair

[dykevanny]

from every voice, the same question rings:

[yourfaveisintersex]

Mr. Kitty from South Park is canonically intersex! While the depiction is not faithful to real-world intersexuality (if I recall the H-slur has been used to refer to him in-source), he HAS been inconsistently depicted as either male & female in different episodes. The requester, @trans-dwightschrute, headcanons him with an unspecified chimerism, and his owner Eric Cartman uses both she/her and he/him pronouns for him.

[eregar]

heinrix had access to an imperial knight stripped from him and instead, he just made himself into one. he’s still piloting this representation of imperial ideal like he was raised to, only the war-machine carapace isn’t plasteel and adamantium, it’s his body. the sixth canticle of the ritual of becoming asks that you become your knight as it becomes you and that’s exactly what he did.

[everyoneisgayandtrans]

[cowsabungus]

Art!

[dinoraye]

How do you survive in a society that wants you dead for who you are?

That's always been a central theme of these character's story, and it's feeling unfortunately more relevant than ever with the news coming out of the UK last week & the general political chaos these days… Drawing my characters freaking out was cathartic 🥲

[kaffkanya]

god i love tos as much as the next guy but there are episodes that are so hard to watch cause of the misogyny and crazy cultural appropriation. and you can use "oh it was the 60s" as an excuse for only so long