… So where IS Waldo, anyway?
(also Masahiro really should teach Akane not to take candy from strangers but I guess he is still THE WORST DAD)
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This is like taking a dog through a hydrant factory.
…okay now I have a semi-intelligent question.
I believe you’ve stated before that you draw Akane without any particular emphasis on her being a girl, which is pretty cool, and simply from societal bias if I didn’t know she was a girl I’d probably think she was a boy.
So how does this candy seller know she’s a girl? It doesn’t quite make sense to me in a way. You’ve never mentioned that this society has gender markings (like how we have blue for boys, pink for girls)…
I draw Akane without clear gender markers because she’s a young child, and her gender doesn’t make an impact on the story; her presence as a *person* does.
However, when I avoid the clear gender markers, that’s for the *readers*. In-universe, most people don’t have a problem recognising that she’s a girl – and in-universe characters don’t have a problem spotting that Kazue is a woman, even though she’s flat-chested and have no overtly gendered traits. It’s the same way we in real life, if we meet a young child we don’t know, could probably suss out that they’re a girl, even if they aren’t wearing pink, or bows, or sparkly things that are gendering.
… I am also planning to have a character show up later in the storyline who ISN’T able to tell Akane’s gender, and who gets it wrong at first.
Grassblades-verse doesn’t have much super-obvious gendering in terms of clothing, though women tend to wear longer skirts and sleeves than men, and men tend to wear more earth-tones, and there’s a general trend towards facial hair on men (which isn’t a conscious, let’s-make-this-fashionable decision; it’s more that I like drawing facial hair XD).
I agree, M. This is a security nightmare. If RPG’s have taught me anything it’s that it’s not paranoia if they really are out to get you, someone is ALWAYS out to get the main character, and a festival when any normal person would let their guard down is precisely when they do it. I’d give Akane a 50-50 shot at being abducted, at least briefly.
Did no-one spot Wally? I’m guessing he’s been spotted on a mirror somewhere… If not, I claim first prize! He appears to be on this very page
Well done you! Wally has, in fact, been spotted before, but not very frequently! The prize you share with the exclusive club of Wally-spotters is a heart-warming sense of pride at a job well done!