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I always loved the powerpuff girls when I was little. However the story for the rowdyruff boys always made me sad. Especially as I got older. So I’ve decided to create these boys their very own professor.

This is a sort of rough approximation of what they look like. This was done on my phone, so it’s subject to change.

Dr. Tiffany Gallium adopted Boomer, Brick, and Butch after they ended up in the Townsville foster system.

Boomer adjusted the fastest, becoming rather clingy to Gallium. Like the others he calls her Dr. Galluim but sometimes he slips up and calls her mom. But Gallium doesn’t call attention to it

Brick and Gallium butt heads often. Brick keeps trying to get Gallium to send them back like every other family that attempted to adopt them.

Typically asexuals don’t have protection to begin with (we are recognised partially in two countries as of 2025, may have updated since then but doubt it) so we aren’t included.

This is the first case of “asexual acts” being criminalised.

It’s illegal not to have sex?

Is it illegal not to have sex for religious reasons now? Such as a nun or priest?

Not only that; but the laws (if there are any) around consent have just been demolished. A man could now accuse a woman who won’t sleep with him of “asexual acts”, resulting in prison time. They might have a strict “not before marriage” faith/law, but don’t tell me someone won’t do this.

We can tell youth that they are basically “rapists waiting to happen” (anti-rape initiative), or we can tell them that we know they would intervene if they saw harm happening to someone and we want to help empower them to do that (bystander intervention). The kids jump in with both feet for the latter! It was amazing to see children (and young boys in particular) excited to do this work and engage their creativity with it. Also, studies show that not only do they go on to intervene, but they also do not go on to sexually assault people themselves. Bystander intervention also takes the onus off the person being targeted to deter rape and empowers the collective to do something about it. It answers the question in the room when giggling boys are carrying an unconscious young woman up the stairs at a house party, and people are not sure how to respond and are waiting for “someone” to say or do something.

That's what she said

The way Kai changes is how boys often change as they grow up and are indoctrinated into the patriarchy. As small children, they're not so different from girls, and can easily be close friends with girls and enjoy the same things. But as preteens, they learn to dismiss those things as childish and inferior, and they become aggressive (Kai kicking over the roses), tease and bully girls (his treatment of Gerda), disrespect women (interrupting and mocking Gerda's grandmother), care only about showing off their strength (tying his sled onto the Snow Queen's sleigh) or their intellect (his obsession with math), and lose touch with their emotions (his indifference to the cold). The solution is for Kai to reunite with his feminine side, embodied by Gerda.

A more gender-neutral viewpoint is that it's less about masculinity and more about growing up. The glass shards make Kai see only the flaws in everything, which corresponds to the moodiness of adolescence, and/or to losing childhood innocence, becoming more aware of the world's flaws, and becoming jaded as a result. He also becomes too eager to be seen as "mature," dismissing anything "childish" and caring only about "smart" and "important" things. Gerda, by contrast, is able to grow up without losing her childhood idealism, faith, or sense of wonderment, and in the end she helps Kai to be "young at heart" too.

It might also be just a story of "heart" vs. "mind" and the importance of uniting them. Gerda represents the heart, with her roses, storybooks, spirituality, and affection, while Kai represents the intellect with his mathematical and scientific knowledge. At first they're happily united, as they should be, but then the mirror shards cut Kai off from his emotions and make him nothing but a cold, mocking intellectual. Thus the point of the story is to reunite the mind with the heart to restore balance.

It could also be a metaphor for toxic perfectionism. The glass shards amplify Kai's sense of all the flaws in the world, and he only finds beauty in the geometrical perfection of snowflakes and of the Snow Queen's ice palace. Yet in the end, thanks to Gerda, he realizes that "perfection" is cold and lifeless, and that flawed though humans and living things may be, it's only in them that warmth and vitality are found.

Last but not least is the mental health interpretation. The effect of the mirror shards is like depression. Kai sees only the negative in everything, loses interest in everything he used to enjoy, and finally, in the Snow Queen's palace, he loses his ability to feel anything at all. His rescue by Gerda can represent the healing from depression that loved ones' care and support can bring.

and gods forbid, a character the fandom likes is canonically a-spec. "but asexual people can still have sex!" and "but aromantic ppl can still be in relationships!" become quick excuses to characterize the character as allo as they want them to be, erasing their a-spec identity in the process.

sure , to my knowledge we're not as focused on by homophobic groups ( correct me if i'm wrong ) . but society is still extremely against the mere existence of those who don't feel certain types of love .

i was venting to a friend about being aroace and she asked me " why don't you just not be aroace ? "

people say " aromantic / asexual / aroace people can still date !! " and then refuse to engage with the nuances of an ace/arospec relationship

so many people i've told about being aroace all say " well , you're not gonna be aroace forever , right ? "

hell being asexual didn't stop being considered a mental illness until 2013

the only representation of aro/aspec people in media are cold villains or are "innocent" and "pure" , and even THAT rep is taken away

romance is viewed as better than all else . every conversation is about romance . nothing sells without romance

people can't conceptualise a relationship with romance without sex . people can't conceptualise a relationship without romance with sex . people can't conceptualise having no desire for a relationship with romance or sex .

society doesn't treat us as people worthy of respect . people dont care enough to represent us properly .