#(but i had to hear enough family members insult our shared nose size and shape and bumpy bridge growing up that this is Important to me)

[yardsards]

amity with alador's nose means So Much to me

a bit because representation of girls with big/hooked/bumpy noses is important to me

but also a lot from a writing and character design perspective with Metaphors

like, her canon design is the spitting image of odalia, aside from hair and eye colour, and being a bit slimmer than young odalia

and that does have its interesting symbolism. something about sharing traits with her but becoming a good person anyway. and the angsty but relatable feeling of looking in the mirror and seeing your abuser's physical features and having to live with that.

and of course the hair symbolism. she has alador's natural hair colour. but odalia tries to cover that up, replace it with her own hair colour. tries to make amity more like herself and less like alador, both physically and personality-wise. but no matter how hard she tries, amity's natural self pushes through, even in early s1 when she's most under odalia's influence.

and then amity, when she sheds her mother's influence, gets rid of the green. and she replaces it with purple. it's neither of her parents' hair colour. it's her own. it's the colour of her magic (sidenote: how tf is a witch's magic colour determined? it usually matches with their track/coven but there are plenty of exceptions, like how raine's is yellow rather than red). it's also a colour we associate with luz, the character who helped her be her real self. and, of course, it's abomination coloured. it's her power and interest and her hard work.

abominations are also something she shares with alador. but the way she uses abomination magic is often different than how alador uses it. first off, she doesn't incorporate any of the mechanical elements that he does (elements that are connected to the specific way odalia abuses him that he tried to protect the kids from, but also the way he neglected his children). but also, iirc, he almost always uses abomination matter in its normal sludge form or as standard abomination constructs/creatures. but amity, as the series goes on, starts showing her own style of abomination magic, where she forms abomination matter into different objects. we see alador do this once, and it's to give *amity* a pair of mittens.

she keeps a tiny bit of brown, though. it's her natural hair, and it's something she gets from alador.

OKAY NOW IMAGINE if amity had alador's nose instead of odalia's

we keep all of the above hair symbolism, of course. that doesn't change at all.

and we keep a lot of the ways that she looks like odalia. we keep the reminder that she chooses to be a good person despite having similarities to her mother.

but we get a reminder of her connection to her dad right smack-dab in the middle of her face. it's something odalia couldn't get rid of, no matter how hard she tries. it's a reminder to her that she can't force amity to be a copy of herself, something odalia probably resents. sure, we get that a bit with the kids' golden eyes, and it ties in with amity's brown hair. but having more features from her father would further drive the point home

not to mention, it ties in with the reason i want more representation of big/hooked noses in the first place. in real life they're often considered flaws. i should hope this idea does not exist in the boiling isles, especially with its roots in eurocentrism. but us, as viewers, know about that prejudice. and it would feel important to me, to have a character, who represents everything wrong with wealth and privilege, be implied to dislike that feature AND THEN have every part of her mindset be repeatedly shown as wrong and harmful and evil