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the hero we deserve

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Finally got round to doing an actual proper illustration of Lock, my non-binary knight character! I've tweaked a few bits of their design and will probably continue to do so until I'm completely happy - I'm not used to drawing armour so I'm still learning how it all works at the moment! I'm still working on compiling their personality/life story and will eventually do a proper bio/ref sheet but until then if you want to know more about them please ask!!

If you know anything about me you'll know how much Lock means to me and how important they are in the slightly bigger scheme of things. So many people (often NB) have contacted me after seeing Lock on Tumblr/dA saying this is the first NB character they've ever seen in a story like this, and while it's great that I can make people happy by giving them that representation, it's also heartbreaking that there's literally nothing else. I can only name a single canonically non-binary character in mainstream media that isn't some genderless alien blob or a robot (and even then people seem pretty insistent on applying binary genders to them - just google 'is BB8 a boy or a girl') - and that's Stevonnie from Steven Universe, and they're only a rarely recurring character seen a handful of times. (if you can think of any more I'd love to hear them!!)

Binary trans characters are hard enough to come by but non-binary ones are practically invisible and it's very disheartening. But!! as assholes on the internet always like to say 'if you don't like the representation in media go and make your own stuff' that's exactly what I'm doing. I have no concrete plans yet and it'll be waaaay in the future if it ever happens (like years) but I'm slowly formulating ideas for a full blown comic about Lock, their adventures and their huge hoard of LGBTQIA+ friends. There are only very vague suggestions of plot ideas floating around at the moment (possibly a set of short stories rather than one big one) but I'm super keen on this and hope to one day produce something that will give my community some of the representation they sorely need and deserve <3

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Original comic: Loophole by JammyScribbler WHAT'S IN YOUR BREECHES by JammyScribbler
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+I love this piece and the character.