Redesigning Bones’ characters — Why that’s bad.
As a start, let me explain why redesigning any character is bad.
Say, you, the reader of this post, made an original character and you are incredibly proud of your work and design of the character. You decide to show that character into the public because of your pride in this character, and they even begin to get some kind of following! However, some people look at your character, and tell you in your face, “I’m going to take your character and redesign them and write him how I think they’d be better off, I can do this way better than you can.”
Another example would be that you wouldn’t take a friends character and redesign them to fit your own needs. You’d respect your friend’s character because they belong to your friends.
Well, how does this apply to Bones?, you ask, Bones isn’t me, nor are they my friend.
Valid point, but I must present you with Bones taking characters of their (ex)friends, copying their designs, and claiming them as their own.
The first example I have of this is Hacker, who belonged to Bones’ friend at the time. He was shipped with Artman, and there used to be a lot of ship art of them together.
He was created by their friend Fooexe, and the ship was very important to the two at the time. However, the two had a falling out, and Fooexe posted a (now deleted) callout of the abuse that Bones had put them through, and evidence of them drawing NSFW as a minor, including NSFW between Hacker and Artman. A while after this, Bones created an ex-boyfriend for Artman named hacker.
He was described as Artman’s ex, who “spread lies and misinformation about him.” A direct stab at Fooexe and their callout post.
Another example I have of this would be June’s character, who Bones directly took aspects of her design and applied to another character. Please note that in both images, they’re all the same character.
Bones purposely stole June’s designs and applied them to their own character just to spite her. June had designed the same character TWICE, and Bones created the character ont he right after they had a falling out. On top of this, there was a time when Bones even created a joke post with a character to give a stab at rykitsu.
The point of this post is, if you redesign Bones’ characters, you’re doing the same thing that Bones themself has done.
