Discussion Prompt #8

[meganehaven]

How does your OC's current design compare to when you first made them?
Do they look the same, or perhaps go under a huge redesign? Maybe they have a new scar, different outfit(s), or something else different?

comment below your thoughts! <3

Comments

[asuraid]

actually sylvie began out a lot more twinkie LOL, i think i had a comparison image somewhere but--yeah, twinkie. i beefed them up a LOT when i found major pectoralis on tiktok and just seeing how soft muscled bodies can be and i was like Oh(tm) as something clicked and they slowly beefened up over the years. also much thicker and black eyebrows bc i LOVE the contrast

(also the migration from they/he to they/them to they/she)

[meganehaven]

love the design changes u did! suits them a lot more imo :3

also pronoun changes, so real! do their pronouns change during the story, or is it just a revamp entirely? if that makes sense :o

[asuraid]

uhhh it's less of Them changing it and more of Me revamping them. sylvie themselves doesn't care what people use for them so they wouldnt mind he/him, but for ME it was so weird to have he/him used for them so i dropped it very early. over time i realized that she for sylvie felt really, REALLY perfect for them and it got me giggly kicking my feet whenever anyone used it, so in the last... recent last year actually that it got added for them to be they/she

[dray]

Woah, gorgeous art! That looks like it's been a really satisfying change!

[asuraid]

thank you!! :D it very much has been, even seeing my art spike for the years i've had them was pretty dope

[arimamary]

Ohhh, thanks for sharing Sylvie's early design. There's something about buff characters that go by something other than he/him that just makes me go "gender is a social construct" in a good way.

It reminds me of this character in the Arcana Game that goes by he/him but is never address with masculine words like man/sir/etc.

I love it when authors play with gender presentation of their characters (idk if that's the appropiate phrasing).

[asuraid]

it was thanks to my friend who has an agender character that very much uses she/her but isn't a woman/doesn't use feminine terms and prefers neutral + masc/is also truly 'gender is a social construct', so it bled out to me wanting to explore it for sylvie and well--here i am 4 years later LOL

huh... i know--was it asra? i thought asra was they/them but its been YEARS since i've even touched arcana, but i know there was convo around asra--OH yeah wiki says he's nonbinary yep yep