#kiya

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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.

Close enough. Tagged by @meeblott, consider yourself tagged fellow artists if you wish to partake! I have soo many WIPs, but here's an art for a friend of their pathfinder inquisitor for our Mummy's Mask AP and, for the fun of it, my Wrath of the Righteous character, Yanien, mocking the party bully! That one's based off of nothing that has actually happened, I just found a song I vibed with that worked for the two of them and wanted to draw this scene.

I intend to do a background to the first piece, but the second may just have colour or something idk (Crunchy quality cause I took screenshots cause I'm lazy)

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.

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...

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