went through some of my old art a bit more. its fun how you can visibly see the exact edgy 15 years old niche i was in (the mentally unwell and obviously slavic). the very skinny silhouettes. the color palette and clothes. the s//th park fanart ... had it all i think
I think Tamara and tori would be best friends but only within their weird mutual hobbies. They’d join a martial arts studio together and bar hop together and get wine drunk together and act like besties from birth but literally never talk to each other outside of these hobbies.
I wrote out some quick notes on character design for eventual profiles and spotted some interesting similarities:
-both Ockham and The Rubbery Barber Surgeon have visually presented male for professional reasons (the former past, the latter present). Ockham continues to do so out of force of habit, but this may change since heshethey no longer has anything to do with said original context (sailing/zailing). In the Neath, where people are less concerned with gender presentation than in early 19th century Europe, Ockham is equally unconcerned with how heshethey is read. Clothing is a matter of convenience (or formally, whatever looks nicest). The Rubbery Barber Surgeon, on the other hand, enjoys masculine presentation (though is often annoyed that he feels pidgeonholed into presenting and behaving like a human Victorian man to make his customers feel "better"). Even without his professional life, he would probably do so anyway.
-Tamara likes to present femininely, except according to Varchaasi social norms. The clothing she wears in London often has feminine styles and fabrics, but follows Varchaasi silhouettes (closely-tailored, and bifurcated garments, to not cast shadows), adapted to London's climate. If she wears skirts, they will exclusively be tied up and tucked into her waistband/belted (though only if the weather allows/with warm stockings... though it's sometimes not worth the scandal it draws).
-Roberts and Nite dress in menswear and have no GNC tendencies. Nite's experimented on principle, then promptly checked cross-dressing off of his list as not for him.
So basically, there are very few skirts or dresses in the collective closets of my OCs, all for very different reasons. I didn't mean for this to happen, but here we are.