I think we need all three of “Absolute weirdo gender presentation so they’re nonbinary”, “Character that has to have a whole conversation about their gender nonbinary”, AND “Normal character that happens to be casually nonbinary” because I eat all three of these up and would love if things had all of them
Okay I have to say, this art style in doll form is so satisfying. I thought with the size I was doing, the bigger ones weren’t going to looks as good but look at them! Also you can’t tell here since I don’t have any other dolls around them but I made Raine shorter then the other adults so they will be shorter then Eda when I make her.
Raine was one of the characters I heard about and was like ‘oh they seem cool! and they are non binary!’ And then I watched the show and I met them and I was like ‘I love you more then I even thought I could!’ Just their character and their fight scenes! I love they made a bard a cool witch!
More owl house and pride characters are to come am just on a trip and I was so busy in my hunter craze. I sewed all of him and I looked up and was like ‘wait it’s June, and I have no idea what pride dolls to sew.’ So I will do some when I get back as I have all this month to do something.
[ID: The picture is a felt doll that is the shape of a gingerbread man with a big circle head, they is supposed to be Raine Whispers. They have tan felt for skin, pointed ears with a hanging dark grey earring on their right side, short light blue mintish color hair, that have a bit of white on the sideburns. They also have white felt circles for their glasses. They are dress in a white puffy shirt with the sleeves pulled up. Red pants and black and dark grey boots. Black long vest that have gold edging and gold buttons, a dark red folded collar, and a brown belt. The 2nd picture is still Raine but they are laying on a non binary flag, it’s yellow, white, purple, and black.:ID]
This is based on something I talked about with @ordinaryschmuck, but I absolutely imagine that after Raine and the CATS rescued Eda and Luz and Eda found out they weren't brainwashed, while they talked things out afterwarss, the first thing Eda did after finding out, she turned into Harpy mode and kneed Raine as hard as she could in the crotch.
like honestly just give your non binary characters traditionally "gendered" features. just do it. it's not like being androgynous ever stopped non binary characters from being misgendered.
frisk undertale and kris deltarune were androgynous and are only ever referred to by "they/them" and ppl are still arguing over how the "main character is not the player but their own person" message didn't apply to their genders bc they refuse to wrap their head around different pronouns. raine owlhouse was paraded around as "disney's first ever nb representation" by everyone and their mother but bc they have short hair other countries dub them as male. this also happens to most anime nb characters bc of how japanese pronouns work. halara raincode literally has the color scheme of the non binary flag AND their in-game profile says that they, and i quote "have no specified gender" AND several characters remark on it in the actual game but bc theyre voiced by a female voice actor ppl still call them a woman.
like literally at this point just give your nb characters huge tits and a massive beard. if ppl refuse to accept the existence of non binary characters in media, then there is no way to make a character non binary "enough" to convince them otherwise. no matter how much you hammer in their androgyny in an attempt to detach them from "male" and "female," there will be people determined to assign gender roles to any trait you give your character.
creators being hesitant to give their non binary characters traits that could be associated with a binary gender is why every goddamn genderqueer character that the creator wants you to take seriously in popular media has shoulder length hair and a board-flat figure and a perfectly neutrally pitched voice. like. just do what you want at this point. the character is non binary because your story said so and people who misgender them would have done that no matter how androgynous they look.