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So, when it comes to differences and similarities, I wanted the twins to look quite different and nonidentical from each other. That is partly due to self-projection, but it's strongly because I wanted to stow away from the idea that Barbie is just female Blitz...

I find that this fandom, especially since Barbie's new short came out, that there's always these kind of comments bein thrown around such as " Barbie is just Blitz with tits " Or " Barb is just like her brother ". And while they do have similarities with their personality, as a twin myself-- It can be severely jarring when people don't treat us like we're our own people, EVEN if we actually do NOT look alike whatsoever.

We may have similar interests, we may have similar quirks, but we aren't the same person-- And it baffles me that even as a nonidentical twin, its happens no matter what as soon as people learn we're related. Blitz is his own person, Barbie is her own person, and her extraordinary character shouldn't fully be chalked down to " JUST Blitz's twin sister " Or as a way worse way to put it " Just Blitz with tits". To me, it just somewhat feels like its rooted in misogyny in some way...

Perhaps its not the fandom's fault for interpreting it as such because Viv doesn't necessarily do a good job at making Barb seem like her own character with her own personality, and just straight up made her a copy paste of Blitz. Which is why I'm sharing this kind of opinion, in hopes that maybe if someone ends up agreeing with me, or already has the same opinion as me! Either way, this is also just for fun. And also because I love Barbie Wire.

That being said, I made Blitz look more like their dad, and Barbie more like their mum-- But still somewhat have features to the opposite parent they look more similar too. For example, canonically, Viv has already done that: In Cash's design, you can see he has black coloured claws, and Barbie has the same feature! I quite like those kind of details I just like the idea of Blitz and Barb being a mish-mash of both their parents combined. And also because I think it'd be angsty if both twins both have a reminder of their horrible father every time they look at themselves in the mirror. -- Blitz has their mum's eye colour, while Barb has their fathers. -- Both twins inherited their horns being curled, like their fathers, except Barb's is way more curled than both Blitz's and Cash's. -- They also both inherited Cash's crooked teeth before getting braces! -- Like Cash, they both have some sort of snout. Cash and Blitz, however, have a way more lizard-like build, and Barbie's face has a way more-- I guess softer / rounded face (?) I wanted to make her more like a lamb! Representing how she gets that softness from her mother! -- Blitz, Barb, Cash all have spikes, except they get progressively less and smaller, Barb's having less and smaller ones, to Cash having much bigger and more spikes on his body. Blitz sits somewhere in between. -- Blitz inherits his dad's skin tone, meanwhile Barb gets her Tilla's. -- Barbie and Tilla both share a mole, right above their lips! -- They also share a love for jewelry and piercings together.

Cash's design hasn't changed much other than some tinkering here and there with regards to his teeth, horns, eyes and a bit more facial hair. His design to me wasn't exactly an issue-- I guess? In my head, I'd had made his outfit look more like a broke ring master. Looking at his canon design, on its own... It just doesn't scream circus owner to me that much??? His personality is pretty much the same. Shitty father.

With Tilla's canon design, I found it to be quite boring. I heard people got the idea that she was a fortune teller of some sorts in the circus, and I loved that idea quite a lot. I like the idea of everyone in the circus having different roles; Tilla being a fortune teller, Cash a ringmaster, Blitz originally had a comedy act with his sister, but then moved Barbie to do more physical entertainment, such as trapeze, hoop acts and stuff like that because " She has the body " for it. Blitz soon never liked doing comedy acts on his own, he felt more confident doing it with Barbie. Over time, they felt like his acts were just there to humiliate him-- Unfortunately, Cash intentionally did sort of push that on.

To make more profit, he would push acts too far, such as allowing the audience to throw shit at him as entertainment. For Barbie, he would force to include more dangerous acts, like involving fire, or stuff like barbed wire to make it more " Thrilling ". Hence why that's how I think Barbie sort of got her stage name: Barbie Wire. I think thats also why she managed to come out of that fire during the accident a little bit more unscathed.

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× There's still so much more I could write, but I fear it'd be way too much for people to read 💀