#this was fun!! gonna do cleo lagoona and ghoulia next

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Monster High girlies (and enbies!!) Part one of ??

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Design notes under the cut:

For Draculaura I couldn’t really think of any way to improve on her design (can’t improve upon perfection!) so it was less of a redesign and more of a possible alternate look

I looked at a lot of different goth and sweet Lolita dresses for inspo and ended up landing somewhere in between

I shortened her pigtails and tried to make them imitate the shapes of bat wings

Her umbrella I pretty much kept as is

I ended up mostly borrowing from her gen 1 design, but referenced gen 3 here and there as well

Her figure is obviously more petite, I also wanted to make her a bit chubbier but it isn’t really that noticeable. If I go back and do revisions I’ll have to fix that

This Draculaura is a trans girl and is either straight or bi, I couldn’t decide so let’s say she’s questioning! I haven’t seen the new series but from what I hear she’s half Thai so I’ll keep that

For Frankie I wanted to take the more modern design of gen 3 and add a bit of the edgy, Avril Lavigne-esque pop punk feel from gen 1

I kept gen 3 Frankie’s side shave but changed the shape of their hair to be a bit more dynamic

I also kept gen 3’s metal leg because I like it :)

I brought in some more of the red accents that gen 1 Frankie has, plus the yellow accents from gen 2 (which ended up being the only thing I borrowed from gen 2 LOL)

Asymmetry and mismatching lengths were key!!

My Frankie is pan, non-binary, and femme-leaning in their presentation but uses strictly they/them pronouns. Also they’re Jewish because I’m Jewish and I say so

Clawdeen’ s outfit I ended up struggling with the most. I wanted her to be fashionable in the way gen 1 is, but in a slightly more modern alternative kind of way

I wanted to give her a bit of an art hoe aesthetic, which only really ended up showing in the pants, which I imagined she painted and patched up herself

Besides that I gave them curlier hair, more akin to gen 3, and a tail (I was going to add more wolfy features, like a dog nose and fur tufts on the cheeks and elbows, but I didn’t like the way it looked so I took it out)

My Clawdeen is a lesbian demi-girl and uses she/they pronouns :D they’re also Afro-Latina obv

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If you could recast your favourite movie with any actors from 3 shows that you're currently watching, what movie is it and who would play which characters?

(You don't have to do the full cast if that's too many, just the main 6 at least.)

I fuckin love questions like this

Rather than favourite movie, since I struggle picking favourites for that sort of thing (whoops sozzles) I'm gonna cast Monster High because I've done that before and it was SO much fun

Nicola Coughlan from Bridgerton would be so incredibly cute as Draculaura, and I love that G3 made Draculaura a curvier character, so I'd want to keep that, and yes here you lose the new heritage that they gave her in the reboot, but I'm not casting G3 in particular, I just like the body update they gave her

Now initially I thought of this actress for Abbey until I saw this particular image of her, at which point I present: Emily Rudd from OPLA as Lagoona Blue. I think she could do it, and I mean just look at her dude - yes she's a bit old, but she plays Nami quite well so I think we're okay

Next we have best they/them in the cast, Frankie Stein played by Ella Purnell from the Fallout TV show. I picked this image in particular because the outfit screams Frankie, but it's her character Lucy in Fallout that makes me think she'd body this role

Now I think anyone who's familiar with MH saw this coming from the start, but I have to cast the wonderful Simone Ashley as Cleo! The three shows I've picked have kind of restricted me, but they are in fact my three most recent watches, but miss Simone would excel in this role, I think. This met gala look also just screamed Cleo to me

Next up we have Queen Charlotte's Arséma Thomas as Clawdeen! (I know it's not technically Bridgerton but let me have this). I don't think it's a huge stretch for an actor to go from Lady Danbury to the fierce Clawdeen Wolf, and I mean look at her here - she's clearly a fashion icon

Rounding out our core Ghouls, we've got Hannah Dodd from Bridgerton as Ghoulia. I was determined to include Ghoulia but I was STRUGGLING, until my friend made a suggestion based on nothing but vibes - and she didn't do too bad

Given her appearance in OPLA, I can't get this idea out of my head - Celeste Loots as Spectra! There's also just a certain something about her that I cannot put my finger on that just tells me.. this is a good idea. Couldn't tell you what

Now let's cast some guys! One Piece's Morgan Davies as the beautiful Deuce, but in particular G3 Deuce. I like the deeper personality that they've given to Deuce more recently and I think Morgan would do a fantastic job in this role - though I think I'd still want him with Cleo..

Enter another of OPLA's wonderful actors - Jacob Gibson as Clawd! They've both (Usopp and Clawd) got that himbo energy about them, with a silliness that's so core to them. Clawd also dotes on Draculaura, with far less harsh edges than his sister, and I think Jacob would be perfect for that

And to round us out, our final boyfriend, Gil (who I never liked but hey ho) played by Dave Register from Fallout! These pictures are both low res, my apologies. I acc hadn't seen the Gil redesign for G3 and I love him? Much better than before anyhow. I do think, given his performance as Chet, that Dave would do a good job here. He's maybe a little older than I'd like but it's what I have!

That makes 4/10 Bridgerton, 4/10 OPLA, and 2/10 Fallout. I love doing this sort of thing, so I was more than happy to spend upward of an hour of my afternoon having fun with this