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Xena is ridiculously more muscular than Gabrielle who’s petite in comparison…

GABRIELLE’S ARMS ARE BIGGER THAN XENA’S.

she was loved and in love

im challenging myself to draw way faster and use big brushes to practice focusing on the structure and light instead of relying so much on detail brushes when I do portraits and it was fun

She would've lived. With time and training, she would've grown stronger. With Madeleine, the person who saw her inner light, she would've planted her own garden.

She would've lived, and she'd be the best vampire of all. But what does she get? She gets deified yet belittled at the same time. Everyone's perception of her warps her actual fate. She can't survive, she'd go insane, she couldn't bear eternity, but also she's a monster who needs to die for it. Her youth and femininity get used against her time and time again. There are valid concerns sometimes, but it's mostly weaponized. Is she too small and fragile and hysterical to survive the night? Or is she a conniving creature who'd pillage the world? Even her assault gets brought up and used against her.

Claudia cannot be challenged in a dignified way; almost all of the things people have maimed her for are related to the very thing she is, a young girl.