Hello, I understand if you want to stop oc posting here because of people being weird about it. I just wanted to tell you that I really like your Kid/Kenny art, even as someone who doesn't know anything about the source material. The bittersweet tone of finding little moments of joy with a loved one in a terrible situation, and the tension of unspoken feelings really get to me. I just eat it up. The reason your art means so much to me is because as a trans person I see a bit of myself in Kid. Dressing masc with an androgynous face means I look younger than I am. I am also soft-spoken and have difficulty affirming myself. I am used to being spoken over and infantilized because of the way I am percieved. It's all very demoralizing and I often feel like there's no place for someone like me in the world. Seeing a character that is an adult with similar traits to mine depicted as a romantic interest makes me hopeful that I could also be desirable. The traits I feel like I should change about myself are called cute by Kenny when Kid exhibits them. He helps him grow but doesn't try to fix him. If you do decide to keep posting them, know that you have at least one eager audience member.
hi, i hope you don't mind me publishing/answering this publicly (i know it's already anonymous but even still...i might delete/private this later but i sincerely wanted to acknowledge your reaching out)
purely as an artist and creator, it makes me incredibly happy if someone can enjoy the character/story/dynamics i want to explore and depict in my art (where i previously never really indulged in original works, let alone canon/oc)
but on a personal note, i put a lot of myself into kid too. to me, he's become more than just a means of self-shipping and to hear that those aspects of him and his relationship with kenny resonate with you in a similar way makes me genuinely a little emotional. thank you. i'm glad my art could reach someone like that
despite the criticism and occasional bad-faith anon, i have also received some very kind encouragement from others such as yourself. i'd like to keep sharing if i can
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do you think Kenny and kid could work in a normal non zombie setting, like let’s say Kenny is a widower?
HMM maybe not🥲 i guess i'm a sucker for the tragedy of their relationship only being possible under the worst circumstances (a zombie apocalypse lol). sort of like the opposite of being "star crossed", where the doomed situation is the only reason it works...fated only to be together when everything else is crumbling around them❤️🩹
in theory, i guess it could "work" and i think they could develop feelings for each other given the opportunity! but realistically nothing would lead up to that happening in the first place. also i can't imagine kid normally living in florida so to me it's geographically not possible hsjdhkkd
u're being trash talked by childish weirdos on this website, again. just wanted to give you a heads up 💀
unfortunately, i am well aware.
i really didn't want to make a post about it but it's kind of hard not to want to defend myself against such misinformation being spread about me/my art? again?
first, the post strangely insinuates i had something to do with the first callout being taken down. i was approached by one of the people who contributed to it, who apologized to me. unprompted btw. they kindly told me they would try talking to the creator to take it down. if op of that post really felt harassed into deactivating, it had nothing to do with me.
op acknowledges how kid is an adult but the main issue op seems to have is the way i draw him. i am not a perfect artist, i draw him differently every time and this isn't even on purpose, i simply struggle to stay "on model". you can see this with my drawings of kenny too. hell, you can probably see it with any character i draw more than once. op just happened to fixate and choose to compare drawings of kid where they perceive him looking younger.
i'm constantly learning and changing. when i draw different characters at separate times, i'm not meticulously thinking "i need to draw character A looking older than when i drew character B that one time" i just draw.
but generally i also think he's drawn in a standard animanga style. for instance below are images of the same character from the same series, college age. the bottom image is of two characters in their 20s. i don't think they're all that different from how i draw kid's proportions
a while back, i drew this of two characters who are canonically old enough to get married and start a family. i would say they look even "younger" than how i draw kid now. it's just a style thing
when compared to kenny, the style might clash and the size difference might look bigger but like i said, it's really just a style issue (i don't want to anime-ify kenny to such a large extent). to me, they are both (fictional, consenting) adults but if someone wants to interpret something sinister or be weird about my art (like op has), i cannot control that. op just seems to dislike my art style, which is fine but to suggest "possible pedophilia" is the biggest stretch imaginable
as for kenny seeing his son in kid or treating him like a son, that's also not true. in my comic where they first meet it's supposed to be a sudden trauma response/lapse in sanity/perception the same way he accidentally calls clem duck at one point. them wearing a similar outfit is a coincidence and a trigger. op conveniently left out how in the very same comic, kid's first reaction to kenny is his mind flashing to his previous companion just because they both wear a hat. doesn't mean he sees that person in kenny throughout their relationship. it's an instant visceral reaction. sorry i didn't spell it out for everyone
i said it before but kid is not literal. his name being elusive is part of the character. you can call him anything (dude, buddy, pal, boy, man, whatever). i started referring to him as kid early on and stuck to it for consistency. honestly, i thought it was like.......a fairly common term. kenny calls nick kid at some point i'm pretty sure. uh i'm literally watching peacemaker rn and an older male figure calls another grown woman kid too. again, people choosing to interpret this weirdly is out of my control.
also i know it's not everyone's thing but i didn't know enjoying whump was considered evil now. many people put their ocs through torture and terrible things, isn't it a running joke for many online? there are concerns about power imbalances with age gap relationships, yes, but this is strictly fictional. i have had it quite clearly stated in my strawpage that i draw fictional age gap and to block me if it makes you uncomfortable
anyway i just think it's very odd to police the way i draw and ship a character that doesn't even exist outside of my imagination. arguing what he is or isn't when the only person he's "canon" to is myself. i don't want people to see him as a child but for some reason, people like op really, really do.
i will not be tagging this but if you've read this far, thanks for your time. as long as whatever conclusion you come to is your own, i can live with that
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even if pushed to the limit, i don't think he would snap violently...he's way too submissive, conflict avoidant and bottles everything in, even to his own detriment. by the time he meets kenny, he had already reached his lowest point and suffers a lot of trauma from it (he succumbs to The Horrors and kinda breaks down/became an emotional husk). i would like to explore his past more but am often too distracted by how much i want to keep drawing him and kenny instead😭
🥺🥺💕thank you so much anon, i genuinely don't know how you can still enjoy my very self indulgent stuff even without knowing the source material but i'm really happy to hear that!! and i hope to keep drawing them for as long as they continue to occupy my heart and mind...❤️🩹
hehehe it's possible and i've drawn some suggestive stuff before but i wouldn't post any here🫣 i'm embarrassed to keep plugging it, but my bsky account (dandyeffect.bsky.social) is the main place where i post all my oc/canon art much more freely! there's quite a bit of art that i haven't posted anywhere else. you're welcome to follow me there. mdni obviously
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😭😭my heart says yes but realistically probably not...or at least not comfortably until after they've been together for a long while
(i can imagine they'd still find excuses to though, like, ohh it's too cold..maybe we should stay close for warmth...or kenny being all "having trouble sleepin', kid? here, let me hold you for a bit"...or something like that☺️)
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in my head he has a name but idk if it’s something i’ll ever reveal..sorry for being cryptic sjdkjf but i consider it part of the narrative that he's constantly not referred to by name by other people. kenny knows but chooses to use other nicknames/calls him kid as a means of not letting himself get too close (it doesn’t work very well🤭). max is a cute name though…😭
admittedly i haven’t given toooo much thought into their life before the outbreak🥀 but i think he’d always been pretty ordinary. really introverted, didn’t leave the house much and kind of a loner but he had a younger sister he doted on..i’m glad you asked, i’m motivated to think about it some more!
kid knows very little about katjaa and duck. it would inevitably come up every now and then but after everything i imagine it being a touchy subject and kenny getting a little snappy if ever brought it up💔 they both share an unspoken agreement not to really talk about each other’s pasts (of course, learning to open up is part of their journey together…☺️)
thank you for the asks, anons i still can't believe people genuinely want to know more about him, i will work hard to flesh out their story...