I’m just saying if Daniel Radcliffe, the literal protagonist of the Harry Potter franchise since the age of ten years old, was able to disavow JK Rowling and move on from the HP universe then actually what the fuck is anyone else’s excuse. There is no one else on the planet who can say their entire childhood was HP more than that guy and he still cared about trans people more than the average tumblr user who says “we’re protesting by making all her characters queer and trans!!” like you can do better. You should do better.
My boyfriend was showing me his cat and I leaned over to kiss the cat on his soft little baby head and he went "meow" and scrambled away because I'd been wearing my headphones and I accidentally jabbed him with the microphone.
And I said "Damn, this is exactly like in the Iliad"
#explanation: this references the scene where Hektor the prince of troy goes to his wife after a battle and leans in to kiss his son #(who is still a baby and being held in andromache's arms) #but his son cringes away in fear of his father's battle helmet #it's a gut wrenching scene about how war dehumanizes you and separates you from the people you love #this interpretation implies that being a gamer is analogous
UR HUMAN ZOOBLE LOOKS SO STRONG. i like to think they like to pick Gangle up sometimes without warning just for fun and/or to fluster her. for funsies.
Here's how I imagine the circus cast would look as real people! Feel free to use them for whatever :o]
As always, design explanations under the cut
Kinger - Kinger's design was actually inspired by a colleague of mine. He's a very sweet man who now works with 4/5 year olds. Anyways, I imagined Kinger to have a salt and pepper type of hairstyle and to only really wear button up shirts. I also thought he should have crooked glasses, to both accentuate how big and crooked his eyes in the digital world are. His pocket is also a reference to his cloak.
Pomni - I've seen a few human Pomni designs, but I always feel like she looks too formal, especially if she found the VR headset while going urban exploring. She wears a beanie similar to her jester hat, has buttons on it that resemble her digital eyes and pom-poms, and in general wears a more casual hoodie and t-shirt combo that matches the red/blue/yellow colour scheme she has in the digital world.
Zooble - It made sense to me to make Zooble a person that has customised themselves a lot in more human ways. They have various tattoos with colourful ink, the most notable one being the comedy masks on their chest (as a nod to Gangle). Their hair is dyed pink to match the colour of their head in the digital circus, shaved at the sides to bring back some of those sharp features again, and then they have two raccoon tails at their ears to mirror some of their usual striped features. I also made their "horns" into earrings, gave them angular and more Out There features/shapes to mirror those of their regular design and gave them a bee undershirt because of Caine's interest in bees and the interest he's taken in Zooble in particular.
Gangle - Struggled the most with her, honestly! I decided to make her muslim because her scarf would be a perfect way to bring back Gangle's usual ribbon features and it's also a perfect way to keep the comedy mask silhouette of her face! I gave her a striped red shirt to also mirror those ribbons again and made the lineart at the bottom of her eyes blue as a nod to her tragedy mask.
Jax - I gave Jax chunky freeform dreads, especially two big strands at the front, to actually mirror his bunny ears. No one's going to walk around with bunny ear hair, but if he held it up you could totally see it. I decided to stay close to his cartoony grin to really make him feel like Jax and made the shading around his eyes and teeth yellow too to reflect back on them usually being yellow. Outside of that, I imagine he dresses very minimally. Mainly hoodies. Here he wears a purple hoodie, with the hood strings being pink and yellow to resemble the bands of his pink dungarees.
Ragatha - I think it's very intentional that Ragatha is a ragdoll, and wouldn't be surprised if she looked very similar as a human to mirror that she feels like a fake and a fraud. So here she is also depicted with red hair and a pointy nose. I made her right eye a bit of a lazy eye, to match her button eye. I also decided to translate her patchwork dress into a diamond-patterned vest that's typically associated with people who aren't struggling with money. I also added a few red lines in there as a reference to her digital, red yarn hair. She has a few loose strands of messy hair for that same reason and 2 chunks at the top of her head to kind of mirror her bow.
Caine - I want Caine to be real so bad, and I think he does too! So I made him as extra as he probably would like to be. Much like Kinger, I thought he should have glasses to match his huge eyes. The frames of his glasses are red with a subtle pattern as a nod to his eyes usually being inside his mouth! His hair and clothes are also a nod to his typical mouth appearance. His hair looks kind of like an open mouth and the checkered pattern on his shirt is a reference to his teeth as well. I also thought it'd be fun to give him a 60's rockabilly/bowling shirt because he was inspired by the book I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream, which was released in the late 60's. I also just think he should look like a weird little guy with a big goofy smile!
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