Thursday DE

[bjornwilde]

Posting early cause I wanna sleep in tomorrow.

Let’s see, how about gender swapped AU’s as a topic? Would things change that much in canon? Whose face would you use for icons? Or share any other thoughts you might have.

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[takethatnature]

Don't Starve: I think a female Wilson would have about the same personality, tastes, and haircut, but would be regarded as even more of an iconoclast for insisting on pursuing an advanced degree in science and then running off to be a science hermit in the woods instead of following a respectable career path.

Wormwood already has a pretty loose relationship with binary gender and I'm pretty sure the only reason he/him is the pronoun set most often used for Wormwood in canon is because it's treated as the default both by the other characters and, at least unconsciously, by the developers. Maybe if Wormwood had a more melodic voice they'd seem more feminine? They actually did have an alternate voice that was replaced late in development and sounded more like the three first female characters in the game. (It was a woodwind instrument like Willow, Wendy and Wickerbottom... being played by someone who was not good at playing a woodwind instrument, and yet was putting a lot of effort into it.)

Homestuck: If it was just Aradia who was genderbent, it wouldn't have that much of an effect, although I could see m!Aradia and Tavros having a "____ Brothers" nickname for their FLARP team the way Vriska and Terezi called themselves the Scourge Sisters. Inverting the genders of all the major characters in Homestuck or even just all the trolls would do a disservice to the story, I think, because the Alternian cast mostly falls into the categories of girls who have a strong, active impact on the plot and non-action guys (Karkat starts off as an exception but gets forced into the latter category in Act 6).