I love the character designs in Potionomics but I do wish the non-human women got to be as physically alien as the men. Muktuk and Finn are plainly non-human top to bottom. Finn's got shark skin, shark teeth, gills, tail—there's no angle where you forget what he is. Muktuk is a walrus in every direction, from snout to to whiskers to tusks to flippers (that meaningfully inhibit is ability to interface with tools!). But Saffron is a faun who's entirely human from the top of her head to her waist. Luna is moth-folk with insect-thin limbs and four arms and wings but her face is just... a human face sitting on top. Pretty human face, standard features, nothing inherently buggy in it.
Roxanne sidesteps this a little, being grey-skinned (and showing it) along with her horns and tail. Being more human-presenting actually fits her character because she's image-conscious, she's spent years using enchantments to pass as human, her whole arc is about living without her disguise. That would be a harder arc to pull off if demons were too disparate from humans physiologically.
But Saffron and Luna don't have the same narrative pass. They're not hiding their species or learning not to hide it. They're just designed with human faces because that's the default for women, especially in stories with romance elements, and it doesn't have to be.
Give me Luna with compound eyes instead of just big glasses. Feathery antennae that look like a part of her head instead of sprouting clean from human skin. Moth fuzz that isn't confined to her hands and neck. Perhaps a proboscis is too far, but something different about her mouth that reflects how alien insects are in that regard.
Give me Saffron with horizontal pupils and fur that doesn't stop at the waistline. Not even full body necessarily, but creeping up the sides, the back, the arms at least! I know the classic interpretation of a faun is fully human on top apart from the horns, but the classic interpretation is also a goat instead of a deer, so... clearly we've got wiggle room in design. Give her ears that are more deer than human, longer and mobile, and a broader nose with wider nostrils.
Let them be as fully creature as Finn and Muktuk get to be, dagnabbit! Subtle enough nods that the silhouette doesn't change dramatically but the face stops reading as "human woman with antlers" and starts reading as "person who is a different species."















