#mauvais tpg

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i needed to make alt outfits for my little guys or i was going to explode. cut to me exploding bc historical reference for this shit was impossible to dig up. i really tried using their personality and main shapes to inform their costumes and i like how they turned out for the most part (PLEASE click for quality)

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streamed myself drawing my characters for several hours. birthday festivities. now look at them

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8 for tpg

8. Have they had struggles with their identity, be it due to internal or external reasons?

hard to sum up succintly tbh!

aset has very rigid ideas about gender roles and balance, but they are by no means mainstream. on its face, a lot of cis people can get behind the idea of masculine and feminine energy balance in that sort of wooy new age sense, but in her case she is literally saying that everyone should be a boy and a girl at once. she doesnt know what bigender is but she believes thats the natural state of humans, much like how some people believe everyone is bisexual on a sliding scale. she is very confident in her sense of self and the main reason she doesnt have to deal with push back is because she rarely gets the chance to articulate these ideas to anyone else. usually because theyre mad at her for some insane stunt she pulled. also she likes girls but its almost entirely irrelevant she has no opinions about it, mostly because she was raised by wild dogs so who even cares

mauvais occupies a very delicate space. she thinks of herself as a woman, not cis or trans. heads up all these guys live in like a medieval africa fantasy world so theyre not going to use labels we use but shes amab and intersex and this has affected her life greatly. she understands her life is much harder as a woman but its also not a choice for her, this is just how she is and her problem is not with herself but with peoples inability to take her at her word. she knows shes different but shes always been different, however she used to be venerated for her strangeness, because it was useful. now shes just odd. she doesnt look like a man she doesnt act like a woman shes frustrating to other people and its cruel to her

asegedech lives an overtly privileged life but its one confined by a strict set of social rules. legally her gender is prince. she had unnecessary invasive surgery done on her as a child, she doesnt get to behave the way other women who arent in her position get to, and really her being a lesbian is a thing thats at best ignored because 1. she cant have kids and 2. they all assumed shed died before shed get to marrying age. she sort of externalizes this as both exalting and envying women for having it "easier." shes made suffering the crux of her identity and its kind of destroying her as a human being. shes just like ah well i guess my life will be hardship forever and no one must care for me because i am the righteous blade of god made mortal to strike down his enemies here on earth forever. i dont have time to be a girl. and everyone kind of wants to shake her until her teeth rattle