🌸Unicorn's Dream🌸

Thank you! I'm glad u like the art! SD Blossom has the exact same as mine (since she has representations of me) so honestly it defines who I am actually. But lorewise, I can give a brief rundown. Starting this off, this would be the demigirl flag, someone who identifies as girl and nonbinary or a combination. I imagine, like me her gender fluctuates between those 2, or just feels very fem but don't go by as a girl when combined. Their pronouns are "She/They" because of it.

Next one is super self explanatory, this is the pansexual flag. By definition it means you like someone regardless of their gender. SD Bloss would date anyone not only identifying as a boy and girl, but nonbinary, trans, agender and etc. (When older of course) (SD Brick himself is actually He/They) So they are nonbinary boy with masc leaning pronouns.)

This one where it gets a bit finnicky, this flag is called the Omnisexual flag, it means you are Pansexual but with a gender preference specifically. You might be wondering why I included the pan flag in that case. There are 2 main reasons, most people do not recognize this flag, and the pan flag would have to be used to back it up. The second reason being is that there is a mixed view on how Pansexual is, some people believe that pan means you are "genderblind" meaning u don't really care much about gender. Other people believe you can have a gender preference being pan, this flag is mostly here is used for specifics. SD Blossom (and me) do have a preference for girls. I imagine in lore, most of her fictional crushes would be girls than boys ratio. But it doesn't mean she cannot fall in love with boys, she has more chance in falling in love with girls.

This flag is where it would explain better on why she is shipped with Brick and Butterfly in lore. The Demirose flag (it can be known as DemiAroAce or Demian Flag) it means you don't feel attraction (including romantic attraction) with anyone until you know them for a very long time. In lore by the time SD Bloss got to know Brick and Butterfly well, (for like years) I imagine that's when she's start to develop feelings or is more open to the idea of dating when older.

And then there is the polyamory flag, there are different designs but I personally like this one the best. Basically it's for people that is ok (consenting people) with being in a partner like relationship with more than one person. There is different types but I'm not going into too much detail in that. SD Bloss, SD Brick and SD Butterfly basically all date each other when WAY older. Like an existing couple that added a 3rd person. So they would specfically be in a triad polycule.

How tf did I spend more effort on the BG than that art itself- But for real though, I wasn't exactly planning to do any Pride Art due to how many projects that I committed to- But I decided to say "fuck it" and did a simple one anyways before pride month ends pretty much.

Anyways, the reason I drew SD Blossom with these flags is because me and her have the same exact and amount of flags, so gender identity and sexualities/romance of any kind, I would have as well.

Anyways, I hope you guys like it!

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Not to beat a dead horse, but the whole “PPGs and RRBs are siblings” thing has always felt more like an observational fan theory than an actual confirmed fact. There’s definitely an argument for it, and I understand why some people like the theory (hell I vibe with it✌️), but at the end of the day it depends on whether or not you buy into that interpretation. The show itself never really confirms it.

That reminds me a bit of the whole thing with Kagamine Rin and Len from Vocaloid….

A lot of people see Rin and Len and immediately assume they’re twins because of how similar they look, even though they aren’t canonically siblings. Some people ship them, some people don’t, and both reactions are valid. Even if something isn’t technically incestuous, people can still find it uncomfortable, and that’s their right.

A lot of this comes down to personal preference in character design. Personally, I’ve always found contrasting designs more interesting than matching ones. I’m talking height differences, different color palettes, different silhouettes, different personalities! characters who visually and narratively bounce off each other.

Part of the reason for that is that modern audiences tend to place a much bigger emphasis on visual individuality than older cartoons did. Nowadays, it’s practically a meme that cartoon couples look like siblings because they share the same face shape, body type, or overall design. That’s one reason designs like Mickey and Minnie can look a little strange to modern viewers. They’re products of a different era of animation, where simplifying characters and reusing similar visual language was common practice. It’s less a flaw in the designs themselves and more a byproduct of animation standards from the 192 was and early cartoon era. It was so common place. It never stopped and still standard practice for animators all the way up to the 90s and 2000s.

The Powerpuff Girls and Rowdyruff Boys don’t really have that kind of contrast because they’re intentionally designed as counterparts. For some people, that’s the appeal. For others, it’s exactly why they look elsewhere or end up redesigning the characters from the ground up. There aren’t actually that many options once you get into the whole “they need to be with their own kind” debate, which has always made me a little uncomfortable anyway.

(I know that was a huge tangent, but I thought I would bring it up because I just know someone will mention it in the comment somewhere)

I also see people bring up the fact that the boys were revived by HIM, but I’ve never really found that argument convincing either. HIM didn’t create entirely new characters; he resurrected characters that already existed. They’re still the same Rowdyruff Boys, just brought back after being defeated. Whether that changes how people interpret their connection to the girls is up to them, but I’ve always seen it as a revival rather than the creation of a new set of characters.

As for people shipping the girls with the Powerpunk Girls, I’ve always seen that as falling into the same category as clone ships, alternate universe ships, evil counterpart ships, and all the other weird fandom stuff that have existed forever. It’s basically like that one question you think about while laying in your bed at night of, “If you could clone yourself, would you date them?” It’s not really something I take all that seriously.

I don’t personally ship it, but I also don’t feel nearly as strongly about it as some people do. I can understand why someone looking for a lesbian alternative to other ships might gravitate toward it. There are aspects of the dynamic that people find interesting even if they don’t like the more popular counterpart….

Really, this whole discussion exists in a gray area where people can hide behind what’s technically true while still making others uncomfortable. That’s why I think most of these debates ultimately come down to interpretation rather than objective right or wrong.

At the end of the day, fandom has been shipping alternate versions of characters, clones, counterparts, and mirror-universe doubles or even just literally the character themselves for years. It’s not exactly a new phenomenon. We all remember what happened with the Onceler.

If someone sees the Powerpunk Girls as alternate-universe versions of the Powerpuff Girls, then I can understand why they’d find the ship weird. In fact, if the idea of the girls dating another version of themselves or what could be interpreted as an alternate version of their sisters makes you uncomfortable, then congratulations! you now understand how I feel about some of the arguments surrounding the Rowdyruff Boys. A lot of these discussions ultimately come down to perspective…

ANYHOW, I think there’s a bit more gray area with the Powerpunk Girls because they’re from another dimension and are generally treated as distinct characters with their own identities. Whether that’s enough separation is up to the individual viewer, but I can at least understand the reasoning….

Ironically, the more you try to logically defend or argue for these kinds of ships, the stranger the conversation tends to become. You can argue that dating another version of yourself is weird. You can argue that they’re technically different people. You can argue that they’re counterparts rather than the same character! The deeper you dig and the more you think about it, the more complicated and convoluted the logic becomes….

It’s honestly similar to the whole thing surrounding Loki and Sylvie. The moment you start applying strict rules to alternate universes, timelines, counterparts, and variants, you end up creating entirely new questions that are even weirder than the original one you started with….

At a certain point, it becomes a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t situation. You can make an argument against it, you can make an argument for it, and both sides usually end up running into strange implications the more you ramble on.

Not to beat a dead horse, but the whole “PPGs and RRBs are siblings” thing has always felt more like an observational fan theory than an actual confirmed fact. There’s definitely an argument for it, and I understand why some people like the theory (hell I vibe with it✌️), but at the end of the day it depends on whether or not you buy into that interpretation. The show itself never really confirms it.

That reminds me a bit of the whole thing with Kagamine Rin and Len from Vocaloid….

A lot of people see Rin and Len and immediately assume they’re twins because of how similar they look, even though they aren’t canonically siblings. Some people ship them, some people don’t, and both reactions are valid. Even if something isn’t technically incestuous, people can still find it uncomfortable, and that’s their right.

A lot of this comes down to personal preference in character design. Personally, I’ve always found contrasting designs more interesting than matching ones. I’m talking height differences, different color palettes, different silhouettes, different personalities! characters who visually and narratively bounce off each other.

Part of the reason for that is that modern audiences tend to place a much bigger emphasis on visual individuality than older cartoons did. Nowadays, it’s practically a meme that cartoon couples look like siblings because they share the same face shape, body type, or overall design. That’s one reason designs like Mickey and Minnie can look a little strange to modern viewers. They’re products of a different era of animation, where simplifying characters and reusing similar visual language was common practice. It’s less a flaw in the designs themselves and more a byproduct of animation standards from the 192 was and early cartoon era. It was so common place. It never stopped and still standard practice for animators all the way up to the 90s and 2000s.

The Powerpuff Girls and Rowdyruff Boys don’t really have that kind of contrast because they’re intentionally designed as counterparts. For some people, that’s the appeal. For others, it’s exactly why they look elsewhere or end up redesigning the characters from the ground up. There aren’t actually that many options once you get into the whole “they need to be with their own kind” debate, which has always made me a little uncomfortable anyway.

(I know that was a huge tangent, but I thought I would bring it up because I just know someone will mention it in the comment somewhere)

I also see people bring up the fact that the boys were revived by HIM, but I’ve never really found that argument convincing either. HIM didn’t create entirely new characters; he resurrected characters that already existed. They’re still the same Rowdyruff Boys, just brought back after being defeated. Whether that changes how people interpret their connection to the girls is up to them, but I’ve always seen it as a revival rather than the creation of a new set of characters.

As for people shipping the girls with the Powerpunk Girls, I’ve always seen that as falling into the same category as clone ships, alternate universe ships, evil counterpart ships, and all the other weird fandom stuff that have existed forever. It’s basically like that one question you think about while laying in your bed at night of, “If you could clone yourself, would you date them?” It’s not really something I take all that seriously.

I don’t personally ship it, but I also don’t feel nearly as strongly about it as some people do. I can understand why someone looking for a lesbian alternative to other ships might gravitate toward it. There are aspects of the dynamic that people find interesting even if they don’t like the more popular counterpart….

Really, this whole discussion exists in a gray area where people can hide behind what’s technically true while still making others uncomfortable. That’s why I think most of these debates ultimately come down to interpretation rather than objective right or wrong.

At the end of the day, fandom has been shipping alternate versions of characters, clones, counterparts, and mirror-universe doubles or even just literally the character themselves for years. It’s not exactly a new phenomenon. We all remember what happened with the Onceler.