everyone loves to hate terfs until they realise that it actually entails rejecting bioessentialism entirely and then suddenly youβre βtaking things too seriouslyβ and you βdonβt have a sense of humourβ like iβm sorry but saying protect the dolls doesnβt make you immune to terfism it has seeped into every corner of mainstream feminism and unless youβre actively searching it out and checking your own biases you will always be at risk of sharing a space with terfs
βOnly women canββ nope. βBut all menββ nah. βThe divine femininity ofββ gonna stop you right there. βEveryone born amaββ if you finish that sentence Iβll kill you. βMen donβt experienceββ youβre wrong. βGender isnβt real but sex is immββ *loud incorrect buzzer*
It also goes without saying that bioessentialism inherently canβt be trans inclusive no matter how hard you try. βAll men including trans menββ probably not. βThis is only a womanβs issueββ is it really? βAfabs onlyββ why? βAll trans men are likeββ what? what are they like? finish the sentence i dare you.
i actually do think you should draw clocky trans people. no i donβt think theyβre a stereotype or caricature. i think thatβs a horrible thing to say about real people who exist. i think thatβs a horrible thing to say about my friends and my family. i want to see your art of a trans boy with curves and long hair and baby face because thatβs me. i want to see your art of a tall trans girl with broad shoulders and facial hair because thatβs my friend. stop being scared to draw the people you know.
βIβm not going to draw a clocky trans woman because thatβs how TERFs draw themβ i donβt think my friends should be forced to only see themselves in artwork made by TERFs and transphobes. They should get to see themselves lovingly drawn by other trans people.
I've wanted to draw Damas for a while now! I've always been curious about what his younger self would look like as the king of Haven City.
Since he reprimands Jak so much for his reckless attitude in Jak 3 and advises him to be more prudent and patient, my headcanon is that young Damas was quite impulsive, and perhaps even arrogant, and a bit of an idiot as a nobleman raised in a palace, descendant of the most important family in history. He was overconfident and that led him to make some disastrous decisions during the war, which earned him many enemies among the nobility.
Also, old Damas seems like the type of man who would be deeply ashamed to remember the foolish things he did as a young man, and would want to punch himself if he could. The good thing is that his mistakes taught him valuable lessons, and in Spargus he became a much better king, worthy of the title.
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The looks of his younger version is inspired by that of other noble and military characters like Baron Praxis and, ahem, also a little bit by the Targaryens from Game of Thrones.
I added some scars to his old Damas version. As a Wastelander warrior, I find it odd that he doesn't have any in his original design. To be the king of Spargus you have to be the strongest in the city and defeat all the warriors who oppose you to sit on that throne. This man has lived through many battles.
I always imagined his hair was 100% white since he was born, not because he's old. I don't think he's more than 50 years old in the video game, so it would make sense for his hair to have white and gray streaks, not be completely white. Therefore, I think he's born with white hair either because he's albino (which also explains his violet eyes), or because the original Mar or other ancestor married a Light Eco Sage who had white hair, and many of their descendants inherited it. Jak's two-toned hair is due to his mother's heritage..
That necklace only appears in the concept art, but I quite like it. My headcanon within my AU is that his wife made it for him. I like to think that in Spargus, instead of exchanging rings, it's a tradition for husbands and wives to make some handcrafted jewelry and give it to each otherβit could be a necklace, a bracelet, a hair clip, a ring, or something more practical like pieces of armor, a knife, goggles or a knitted scarf for protection in the desert.
One thing I'm not entirely clear on is whether Damas literally has spikes embedded in his skull or not, but that's what it looks like. My theory is that once he managed to get the throne of Spargus, he thought, "This time, if they want to take this crown from me, they'll have to take it from my corpse." And he took it so personally that he asked the monks to graft the crown onto his head. Oh, well, Mr. Sand King loves drama.