The Moppet

specifically inspired off of this illustration but way less cool as hers

Scott pinning Louis down as they fight oughhhh

Yeah, the once excitement to make works of Pyro's characters has died down a whole lot.

Being scared of being harassed and or shunned from a big part of the fandom is one reason on why a lot of people now avoid drawing Pyro's characters.

But another is also the fact that what Pyro and Maddy have shown is entitlement over fanworks, because if all fanworks made of their characters, no matter how self indulgent, are thought as "gifts" to them or something they have the right to revoke from being made, then I can see why a lot of people would rather not draw their characters at all.

If artists are never allowed the freedom to create what they want, and their works can be made "illegal" the next day, then why would artists want to create works of a character when you know ccs and their mods are keeping their watchful eye over you?

I know a lot of Pyro's defenders and mods hate the word "policing" being used, but it is exactly that, a lawless place such as fandom where people create works on characters in their own free time, sometimes taking hours is now governed by someone with a larger following, using their influence to decide what you can and cannot make total.

It's mostly why I draw ship art of Pyro's characters only, I want people in this fandom to post what they want for themselves and not grown ass adults, and I don't want to show support for creators who want to throw their following around because people are playing with dolls, frame those people shipping characters as "perpetrators" and those on their side as the "good guys", like a black and white scenario which is so incredibly manipulative even if the intention may not be manipulative as I hope is the case.

Make things for yourself, not for two adults which in the end of the day have full control over what they want and don't want to see on the internet by filtering tags like the rest of us.

Ccs especially have full control on canon and the true intentions behind their characters, but they cannot sit there and act hurt because someone put their characters in a romantic relationship in another story or headcanon.

If we allow censorship of what we find problematic such as "shipping", then it's not only going to stop at what people find problematic, and could very well branch out into ccs then banning their characters being drawn disabled, or plenty of other things, in which case would that be okay?

sua and hia are posed together in the drawing depicting hia as bride, their arms entangled and sua's legs disappearing into hia's dress. hia holds one of sua's hands on her lap - their relationship is primarily defined by this forced dependency. this is incestuous enmeshment: hia reinforces this through her control/correction of sua's appearance (mostly shown in heavenly garden, but which she extends to mizi), by being her main source of emotional support and socialisation (being suspicious of mizi, making sua choose between them in her birthday comic), and by guilt tripping sua into giving her possessions over to hia (headphones which sua bought herself, but which hia twists into being given due to parental bias). sua is barely a person on her own - this is hia's path to being valuable and powerful in the family which abandoned her by having a blood related child after her adoption.

of note: sua's feet are chained to mizi's neck like her feet disappear into hia's dress. marriage, or being a bride, is being trapped and dependent on another.

due to enmeshment, sua has no concept of her own independence. once hia presumably leaves their family into another, sua has no one but mizi to fulfil the same role hia once had in her life. as reaction to this loss, sua cries and cuts her hair - her sole attachment will be mizi. once zombification promises her their eternal union, she's secure enough to grow it back out again, once again solidifying their familial resemblance.

Everyone has their own character arcs, but I’m not someone who can manage every single person’s pov. I have my favourites and my biases, but that’s worth being pushed aside to make sure everyone gets worthy treatment.

And it’s great. It’s great getting to take a magnifying lens to characters I previously didn’t get to spotlight because I want their actions to be driven accurately by who they are as a person. I want people who love those characters, for whom those characters are their favourites, to be able to enjoy them just as much as I do my favourite characters.

mei and her trophy wife appreciation post