#itft inky

There is something i would like to ramble about here that i learn was a bit of a topic of debate when Lava Cake first showed up; his gender! I like talking about these things as a very fem presenting Nonbinary person! I love rambling about ones relationship to gender and gender expression!!!

I know his wiki comments/page(?) at one point i think ended up being locked due to the debate itself ontop of the character being new with minimal information making it a mess. But as it should be known by now, ITFT Lava Cake is male and uses He/She!

These were the pronouns I gave him when first recommended and those were the ones Derpadon decided to use! Truthfully when i assign object characters pronouns i don't even really think about their genders, just whatever ones i think they would use, so many of them tend to be multi-pronoun. Mainly because i don't think object society would even adhere to our own understandings of gender...

With that though, I like to interpret the ITFT iteration of him as being someone who very much is comfortable and confident in being a guy while expressing and having traits society has made us see as more "traditionally associated with women". He identifies as a guy, and part of his identity can be wearing makeup, being effeminate, and comfortable with she/her pronouns too!

I could go on and on as i tend to think about these sort of things a lot, mainly because, as stated before, it's the same introspection i've had with my own gender identity. Humans are weird huh? Oh well i don't really want to post here much, so this is the one time i'll get to yap about something.

TLDR; Lava Cake is a GNC icon who would listen to Will Wood, i listened to The New Normal a lot while working on this sketch itself!

I had also answered a Q&A question on the discord server a while back about what channel the debuters were from, I had choose Channel 76 as his original channel. One that I had described as "something similar to CW, probably from a show that goes as off the rails as Riverdale does. Would probably become a vampire hunter by season 8". This is supplementary, possibly Dubiously Canon material as far as i know though, whether or not it's canon would have to be seen. Would be funny if it was though, right?

I hope that this has been coherent/insightful! Next up...i mentioned "personal projects" earlier. Well here's your sneak peak!

As stated, I have written a script for the first episode of my comic that i'm satisfied with! The plans for it are still a bit lose and changing but the beginning and end have been set in stone since i first conceptualized it years ago.

Truthfully Lava Cake wasn't originally intended to be apart of the cast- but when i was redesigning and reworking them i had gotten so genuinely frustrated at having to free hand one of characters that i revisited my original concept of Lava Cake. She was much more depressing and emo, and was an archetype of sorts I was missing. I'm very happy with her final design and how she fits into the story! She also uses He/She, for clarification.

Which makes it funny for me to joke about them being secret twin brothers. They would probably have some kind of sibling rivalry/hate. I wonder if they're together one of them would be fudge cake instead?

Thank you, if you read this far! It's been a blast working on ITFT, even if its just as a voice actor for Star Jar and Lava Cake!

Ya'll keep doing what your doing and creating wonderful things!

Here's the transparent version of that drawing.