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My female lead is 4'9 and has scars on her legs, back and shoulders. She's also cinnamon brown in complexion being Navajo and Mexican. So while there are some beauty conventions she fits (very long hair, big eyes and long lashes, rather hourglass shaped) there are lots of conventions she does not fit into.

Your character doesn't have to check every 'outside the beauty standard box' rather, they should be characters who DON'T check enough beauty standard boxes to be a Hollywood (or most animes) female lead

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Why does it feel like giving plus sized girls fashion sense of any kind is so rare? I was plus sized since I was 12-13 and it feels so rare that anybody represents chunky girls being fashionable.

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Dark female OCs = doesnt meet beauty standard? Hmmm... I dont think color has anything to do with beauty standard.

In a perfect it world it indeed wouldn't. Unfortunately we live in a world dominated by Western-European/American standards, which ends up with lighter skin being considered more beautiful.

If Claudita is 5'5, that makes Eiris 5'11 or 6 feet tall. And anything over 5'9 is considered tall for a female.

It very definitely does have a weighing on the beauty standard almost everywhere in the world. It shouldn't, but almost no where in the world is darker skin considered as beautiful as lighter skin by the media

I finally have a good design for Crystal's best friend, Belle! She's an artist...and is also responsible for BF meeting Otto!




That's so cool, I love when characters are okay with their friends knowing their significant others.

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She’s only gonna show up after a good while, but here’s Eva

Hehe adhd librarian

My main character Lady Lock has a darker complexion, and while I don’t think she’s so thin either I wouldn’t really consider her chubby but her girlfriend is, Chariot. Both of them are Latina. Lady Lock is also fairly tall, she’s 5’ 10”

Am I missing something? I thought a Chariot was a vehicle, is it also a name?

It’s is a vehicle lol but I don’t know if you’ve realized my story is super surreal, and she was sort of rudely named so as a Princess, but she embraced it anyways. She didn’t get a name until she was 20 and was named so because she really wanted to travel. But like … anything can be a name because all names are made up <3 some just have more history than others.

That's a fair point lol, anything can be a name. I have a character named "Diva."

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Jubilee and Inoa!

I'd love to make this comic someday so here are the female leads from DAP

Jubilee is a short, Pinoy girl, and very thin, so she wears loose tops. Meanwhile Inoa is curvy, but on the darker side: