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I like to imagine this is how other Dwarves see him, a delicate pretty boy. It's just other races can't read Dwarf body language that well.

Then he's an elf and suddenly they see his mannerisms in a different light, but he's always been this way. They just didn't have Dwarf Goggles.

Specifically, in how other dwarves like Senshi's old mining party treat him. Even knowing Senshi was still a child, they still expected more "dwarvenly" behaviour from him than he exhibited.

The text tells us multiple times that Senshi isn't your typical dwarf. He doesn't have the usual dwarf skills and his interests are pretty unusual. It's hard to tell early on because the only other dwarf we see is Namari and she reads as pretty butch to us...but I think it's actually Senshi who moreso doesn't conform well to dwarf gender roles.

Sure, he might seem like a macho, stoic, spartan-living survivalist to us, but, I think, to other dwarves he's kind of an effeminate nature-loving hippy pretty-boy.

I think that his mannerisms get overlooked because he's a beefy guy with a big beard; but, if you look closely, he's always been prone to pretty poses:

And some of them aren't really that different from his elf-form poses...

(that first pose is actually in the manga but he's partially blocked by Laios so it wasn't as clear of a visual for this purpose)

Senshi has always had a bit of a flair for dramatic and emotive posing, it just becomes more evident when he is in elf form because of our own gender biases: to us, dwarves seem more masculine and elves seem more feminine or androgynous.

I think the biggest difference between elf-Senshi and dwarf-Senshi is that elf-Senshi doesn't know what to do with his long limbs and hair.

He is used to wearing a helmet all the time which keeps his hair in place, so he has to keep flipping his hair out of his face dramatically.

He keeps crossing his legs because I don't think his legs were long enough to really DO that before.

He also usually carries a big pack on his back and hanging onto the straps kept his hands busy. His pack is too heavy for him now so he isn't wearing it and keeps resting his hands on his upper arms or face instead.

He often touched his face or stroked his beard when he was in thought, but now he doesn't have a thick beard to stroke so he just looks like he's voguing

Ryoko Kui is a master at depicting the different anatomies of the respective races. Things like the length of characters' limbs inform how they have to carry themselves and that influences how they are perceived.

Senshi takes this lesson to heart.

“But it’s confusing!” If you take the time to educate yourself it’ll no longer be confusing. Otherwise you’re just gonna have to learn to be ok with being confused.

“But it’s weird!” You probably do weird things all the time. Everyone does weird things sometimes. Life goes on.

“But it scares me!” Is it hurting you? No? You’ll be fine. Being scared and being harmed are not always the same thing. Learn to tell the difference and then act accordingly.

"But it makes me uncomfortable!" The world is an uncomfortable place and complete strangers are not required to fix that for you. Learning to endure harmless discomfort is a life skill for existing in public.

"But I don't like it!" There's plenty of things in the world and not all of them are fun or enjoyable or For You. This applies to everyone and we all have to deal with that in a mature fashion.

some of my fav portrait commissions from this year

The Lamb chart by @theonewhohyperfixates and @tidalfoam , but of course i couldn’t just do Lamby…

Had to be extra and do NOT-lambs in this sacred lamb chart, hehhh… i’m very scawed… the blank chart is under the cut vvv

hehh.. thankyou @therekinperson for giving me the confidence to post it..

I did the lamb + nari chart cause of course i did :P