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Something you notice immediately in Trigun is Vash’s waistline!
Fans can thank character designer, Takahiro Yoshimatsu, for giving us ‘98 Vash’s accentuated waist.
Yoshimatsu needed to adjust Vash’s design for the anime style and added the belt in order to better show his waistline (,,> ᴗ <,,)
Which character was the most challenging?
Yoshimatsu: Definitely Vash. Especially for his clothing design, the director and I worked together to come up with various ideas.
That red coat, right?
Yoshimatsu: First, we decided not to have the hem tattered with bullet holes, and instead added a belt at the waist. Mr. Naito knows what he's doing when he draws, but when animators draw it, if the position of the waist isn't clear because the coat is so voluminous, it's very difficult to draw. If the waist isn't defined, the impression of the character changes.
Interview with Takahiro Yoshimatsu, Trigun Art Book, 1999. Translation commissioned by xoxo-otome.
Begging you to please post the reigen edit you have of him to nails, hair, hips, heels it’s been one of my favorite edits and it doesn’t load properly on Twitter anymore so I can’t show people 😭
Autistic masking does not necessarily mean “pretending to be allistic/neurotypical," although you’d definitely be forgiven for thinking it does.
Non-autistic researchers have been referring to it as “camouflaging” for years, framing it as an intentional choice to suppress autistic traits and replace them with allistic ones in order to “blend in.” Doing an internet search on the term will return several similar results.
But now, Autistic researchers are in the game, and their take is much more nuanced and comprehensive than that. (Funny how that happens, isn’t it?)
They’ve found that:
- It CAN be intentional but is often subconscious and involuntary
- It is a protective response to trauma and feeling unsafe
- It is often about suppressing more than just autistic traits
- It is about identity management and being able to predict how people will treat you, not just “blending in”
Some people will lean into being “the bad kid” because they know that’s what people expect of them. Some people will even act “more autistic” because they know that’s what people expect of them. Others still will do things to attract attention in controllable, more “acceptable” ways to avoid attracting attention in unsafe, more stigmatizing ways. Not because they WANT to be that way, but because it lets them predict people’s responses better, which feels safer.
Also, there are Autistic people who can’t “pass” for non-autistic no matter how hard they try. That doesn’t mean they’re not masking. They may actually be working hard to suppress A LOT, they just can’t do everything to neuronormative standards.
None of these people will be accused of “blending in,” yet they are still masking their hearts out. When we assume they are not, we miss all the harm that masking is causing them. But they are suppressing themselves and suffering the consequences of that just as much as any Autistic person whose mask successfully says, “Hey, I’m just like you!”
(For more on this, please see the work of Dr. Amy Pearson and Kieran Rose.)