So I sometimes check out Pixiv to see some Submas fanart, and sometimes I see them with alternate versions of themselves with like, spiky blond hair and sharp teeth and earrings??? Do you know what that's all about?
Oh this is something i know a bit about, from what ppl told me
From what I've heard, they're Japanese fans' American version of submas, Ingo and Emmet since for them, submas are Nobori and Kudari. They look different compared to the original submas design, they're usually depicted with blonde hair, sharp teeth, earrings, piercings and they wear high laced boots. Their depiction can be on the edgy side (smoking and having guns etc) but can be quite wholesome too.
I've included some links for informational purposes. Some of them go as far back as 2013, which is pretty wild. I also included some twitter links since they can be viewed more easily. If you want to check out for yourself, the tag is 海外サブマス (overseas submas). As usual with pixiv, there can be some shippy stuff so proceed with caution (the ones i linked here are non shippy but idk about the artist's other works)
ティータイム以外にお越し下さいませ
And apparently some fans love them enough to cosplay them??
Some fans go a step further and created designs for more countries/localisations! However I'm not too familiar with how the other versions are depicted
【注意】海外サブマス英国(米国)、中国、フランス、ドイツのサブウェイマスターイタリアとスペインも、おいおい描きたい未だに絵柄とか服が安定しない上にエメットとキャムシンの描き分けが出来てない……
ほぼ中国マスです。ポーズ素材をお借りしたりトレスがあります。
They're so widespread on pixiv which just shows how much fans love these fanmade submas. They're not as popular anymore nowadays (probably because PLA is the hottest new thing) but i think they're kinda charming, and an interesting part of submas history ^^
EDIT: Found a link to pixiv dictionary page about them, but it's all in japanese
