I love bones and I love Homestuck headcanons and I love love LOVE kiwitankās versions of the Alpha and Beta kids.
What I donāt love is people hurling hateful, horrifically racist, body-shaming, transphobic, queerphobic, and violent bigotry in face of art that doesnāt fit their own idea of how the characters should look.Ā Though it is amusing in a āthis shit again are you fucking serious?ā sense to see them try and backpeddle when called on their hate by and try to cover their asses with random, concern trolling critique about the proportions of the characters.
Which, look.Ā Fandom, I donāt know if some of you realize this, but not everyone is da Vinciās Vitruvian Man.Ā Limb and torso proportions especially can vary drastically across populations.Ā While yes, in places the anatomy here is stylized to a much more extreme degree for sake of silhouette (Johnās hips, Janeās feet, Roseās head), break them down to the literal bare bones and thereās this amazing consistency across genetically related kids that makes the anatomy and anthropology geek in me very, very happy.Ā
The Strider-Lalondes have generally longer torsos in proportion to their limbs and shorter legs.Ā Given kiwitankās gender identity headcanons hormones and ectobiology gene scrambling mean that Dave and Rose have much wider hips than either of their genetic parents (though since Dirk obviously didnāt fare his upbringing on 400 year old canned food and whatever fish he could scavange nearly as well as Roxy, heās far shorter than his full genetic potential; who knows how he might have looked given much different environmental stresses), but they still end up looking remarkably like one another.Ā
The Egbert-Harley siblings, in contrast, are much taller, with longer limbs and narrower ribcages.Ā Theyāre a merge of the two extremes of uber-petite Jane and Jakeās hulking, broad-shouldered frame, with a slimness in John especially reflective of him being the youngest.Ā
Human variation is fucking awesome, is what Iām saying.Ā .
