I was hit with a vision. Or rather, my aphantasia tormented me for a while with an idea that I struggled to get the way I wanted it (and didn’t quite succeed) which makes no sense given I can’t visualize
So normally I don’t like human hair on animal characters, it’s just so weird to me. But then I um. Probably vaguely remembered some Clefairy-like (but more recent) Pokémon and I went. Oh. Oh. Continuous purple color. Yes. That.
You are free to steal work with any of these, please for the love of god mod them as you see fit to your tastes as I still can’t exactly figure out what I was going for
But the last one is the closest, maybe? Or the 2 on the far right?
Tag me, lemme see!
I have now probably relieved my drastic overthinking about transfemme Jax:
[Discord conversation]
I foresee myself being in this awkward space where I use “she/her” pronouns, because you should always do that retroactively for people, and yet I’m sorry I just like the design of the character too much to feminize it. Like partly it’s due to my own hangups about wanting so badly to be androgynous, I’m sure, but I simply do not want to draw her with boobs or hips. Even slight ones.
Especially considering all the other characters (except oddly Zooble. Oh yeah and I guess Ragatha, it was confirmed) do not have in any way hourglass or bottom-heavy designs, I think this is somehow fair? Pomni is entirely flat, as we saw in the Beach episode.
So why would digital transition necessarily gift her boobs, if an outright AFAB doesn’t have them?
[^solid logic]
[v but then I get into projection lol]
Also you have to contend with the issue of … their bodies match their minds. Maybe she wants to be an androgynous girl.
o_o
[would certainly fit given she didn’t give herself masculine shoulders]
[Update: Gooseworx has officially approved any pronouns, but honestly I have a sneaking suspicion she just didn’t want to deal w backlash that would obviously result from declaring she/her]
[which. fair.]
But probably gonna get flack for it anyway.
Maybe if somebody comes up with a design that incorporates the overalls- I’m shit at making up clothes designs. I kinda like the ones where she has a black shirt under it?
I also do NOT like the cartoon trope where lipstick or eyelashes is what distinguishes a girl from the “default” [men are always the default. Sigh.] so I feel icky doing that, too. /srs
And she can’t friggin have a “feminized” jawline bc her head is round to begin with!!!!!
But I don’t expect anybody to read two paragraphs of discourse over why I’m still drawing Jax in her original form. I mean, unless Glitch makes a concerted effort to push a feminized Jax into Fortnite (and whatever else) or whatnot, why should I /hj
Now I’ve dodged the “don’t like human hair on animals” “don’t like the lowkey sexist and Othering that is inherent in things like Mickey and Minnie Mouse” (which Jax BASICALLY is an iteration of, to make it worse.) lol.
The hurdles are cleared
I am free.
