[ SECRET POST #6482 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6482 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[Sorceror by Talrothal]



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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #926.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

03. https://i.imgur.com/tTJyM3x.png

[(Anonymous)]

I'm just glad you included muscle hunk Link as being as egregiously inaccurate as slinky femboy Link because yeah, it is.

[(Anonymous)]

I also keep scrolling past this secret and seeing canon Link being like 'haha yeah those are totally me! :D' and loling to myself

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not into these fanarts in particular, but for me it's like: [Body type or feature] is hot. [Canon character] is also hot. Combining both is even better. It's not that I don't love the canon character as-is (otherwise I'd draw someone else), but it's just playing with the design for fun.

[feotakahari]

No comment on this specific art, but sometimes the art feels like a correction of the canon. Especially with muscular women—often there’s a physically strong character whose canon design looks like a twig, and then the fanart bulks her up a bit.

[(Anonymous)]

The thing is a fictional character is really an amorphous bundle of traits, characteristics, aesthetics, etc. With Link, or Spider-Man, or whoever else, there is not one true version of those characters. There are a wide range of different versions of those characters, linked to some extent by common attributes.

So it's not really about changing the character. It's about finding a version of the character - some aspect of their aesthetic or personalities - that lines up with what you think is hot.

[(Anonymous)]

The right is closer than the left, though.

And doesn't he get dressed up femme to get into Gerudo Town in canon? Granted, that's a whole other Orientalist can of worms...

[feotakahari]

Obligatory “how can a Japanese developer be Orientalist?”

[(Anonymous)]

Obligatory "please read Edward Said."

[(Anonymous)]

I kind of get why people do it, and the best for them, but I still feel this. Even when it comes to less fetish-y, like you've shown, fanon changes. I really dislike when people take characters and make them more feminine or masculine depending on whether they see the character as a top or a bottom.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't mind people playing around with gender and gender assigned behavior etc but I agree I get real tired of the "bottom=feminine and top=masculine" bullshit fandom can't seem to shake.

[(Anonymous)]

Same-ish. I kinda get it but also there's a point where it's more random fetish art with a fandom tacked on vs. fandom art with a random fetish tacked on.

[(Anonymous)]

I think the fact that they're changing a character's canon look is part of the fetish a lot of the time.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, it's a bit like... bimbofication, without the -fication.

[(Anonymous)]

Boy do I have news for you lol
The bimbofication absolutely happens.

[(Anonymous)]

All three are hot, though.

[(Anonymous)]

I mean maybe they really like the character/personality and like to reimagine it in different vessels or into their current fetish or whatever. Same reason people do genderbending and other AU type stuff. Seems pretty straight forward to me.

[(Anonymous)]

Personally I think Link is a terrible example for this secret. Have you never seen any of the dozen or more other canonical character designs for him?

[(Anonymous)]

This! I don't have Zelda knowledge but he was just a bundle of pixels to start with, right? And both those art examples are still recognisably him.

[(Anonymous)]

Which canon look do you choose then, though? Because based on older games (and I'm not even talking 8bit era) he also looks vastly different than in newer games, so are those newer games inaccurate too?

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, Link is pretty intentionally androgynous and shapely though. The right image doesn't even seem that off tbh.

I think my only issue with this kinda thing is when artists give canonically flat chested female characters huge boobs. There's already a plethora of canonically busty female characters, leave characters like Jinx or Rukia alone :(

[(Anonymous)]

I made a secret about that, with Jinx as the example, and impetus, ages ago. General defense of it was "some people like big boobs", to which I say exactly what you say. "So make art of the canon big busted characters!"

[(Anonymous)]

I'm glad fandom creators don't limit themselves to exact portrayals of the characters they like, stories that just retell canon, etc. To me the whole point of fandom is to take someone else's creation and give it your own interpretation, as close or as far from canon as you wish.