#kiya

so I saw sfawtde + dawtde (MORE UNDER CUT)

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There was once a Kiya and Dan, whose bonds were so strong they had to be separated in sake of the time loop…but one day, that loop break, and they appeared in modern day.

i'll post inktober later today, don't worry!

i also have hiro doodles i need to finish but school is KILLING me. enjoy my short doodles i did with my unhinged friends :) AND ALSO wigglypaint. it's ok i think... just wish the tools could also be colored too... but i'm fine it being a lineart thing...

In universe, the only information we have about her past is an optional book written in universe by a British Victorian man with all the biases that implies. Out of universe, her character design is informed by exactly two thoughts; "love interest - make her sexy" and "mummy - give her bandages." If you take the misogynistic white men at their word in and out of universe, Kiya is a sexy lamp whose whole purpose is to be fridged and then brought back, whose whole identity is a prize for Our Hero to win.

But MediEvil is all about lies and false histories. Stop and look at what we're shown about Kiya, not what we're told. It was her skills and knowledge that allowed Kift to build the creature in the Dankenstein levels, where the professor's own research had ended in failure years before. We know from this that Kiya must have embalming knowledge, and possibly even some necromancy. She could not have merely been some girl "plucked from abject poverty" as the in-game book puts it, but an embalmer and therefore a priestess of Anubis.

Kiya, who had been killed to follow her husband into the afterlife, went to fight Jack the Ripper on her own. She chose to join the fight even when the men around her wanted her to stay safe and useless. If not for her knowledge of embalming, Palethorn would have won about halfway through the game. She has an inner life and motives of her own which are ignored and overshadowed at every turn.

It's almost a meta-commentary on how women are treated, how she's dismissed by the narrative despite arguably having a clearer motive for her actions than Dan, who is mostly just running around doing what Kift says. But it's not a commentary, it's just misogynistic writing. It's just sexist character design, not a commentary on how society tries to shape women into sexualised abstractions of themselves.

They don't completely follow the descriptions I was kinda just using your designs as a baseline if you can put it like that

-Kiya

7. What character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?

10. Worst part of fanon?

Hiya hiya! My days been going well, thank you! ( ˶>ᴗ<˶)

The Ask Game in question - send me one? (⁠.⁠ ⁠❛⁠ ⁠ᴗ⁠ ⁠❛⁠.⁠)

What character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?

I don't think there's a singular MHA character that I could say I "hate" but oh my goodness, I'm not a fan of Eri >⁠.⁠< You say you don't like her, you're considered a jerk because she's "cute and innocent"! Anyways, I just grew extremely tired of seeing her squashed next to my favorite characters over the years (starting Aizawa, then the Big 3, and Shinso as well)

I'm not against kids in shows, but I really need them to have a fleshed out personality for me to like them (⁠⇀⁠‸⁠↼⁠‶⁠) The kids from the movies and Kota? I love them! But Eri seems to have 2 purposes only: 1) Look and be cute and 2) Fix whatever the heroes need fixing. Is that completely logical? I'll admit not really, but try as I might, I just can't see it as anything else (⁠ ⁠:⁠ ⁠˘⁠ ⁠∧⁠ ⁠˘⁠ ⁠:⁠ ⁠)

Now, even then I didn't really dislike her due to the way she was written. No, I would say it's the fact that she's constantly shoved in every single place that Aizawa is in when it comes to the fandom - and the price often is Aizawa being dulled down into nothing but "Dadzawa" while all his other features are forgotten :< Her presence strips a few characters of their personalities when it comes to how the fandom treats them and I just can't handle that well

Worst part of fanon

I slightly mentioned this above, but 100% when a character is stripped down into their base personality traits, in which the fandom will choose one and amplify that ten times the amount. The refusal to look even a little deeper into certain characters and formatting them all to a singular label.

Present Mic being The Loud Funny Guy

Aizawa being The Sleepy Cat Dad

Shinso being no good for anything besides being "Aizawa's son"

Tamaki only being seen as "cute adorable little anxious bean who can't do anything himself"

Iida being only known as The Strict/Stuck Up Classmate

Mirio having his sad moments completely forgotten/disregarded

Most of the girls really

Heck I'll even throw Mineta into here! He's had a lot of his bad moments but I saw quite a bit of development in the final war that I thought was pretty good! You can feel two things at once, but I feel it's either a "you're with us or you're against us" mentality

I think it's the refusal to see anything other than a "name tag" as I call it, and it's a shame because all these characters are so fleshed out, and while popular ones (like Bakugo) are broken down and analyzed daily by the fandom, smaller ones (like ran Tamaki) are stuck with that label that the fandom gave them (´-ι_-｀)

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Sorry for the rants (⁠；⁠^⁠ω⁠^⁠）I suppose that's the point of the ask game though, no? Anyways thank you for the ask Kiya!