The thing I love about blues design in deltarune is that they made a black-coded feminine man, which already doesnβt happen a lot, but also was completely unapologetic and unhesitant in giving him black and racialized and masculine features, and that it doesnβt take away from his femininity and beauty. heβs got a strong jaw, heβs got locs, heβs got broad shoulders, heβs got thick eyebrows, and heβs still drop dead gorgeous and is treated as such and is never made to seem otherwise
so often feminine men are solely depicted as white or white passing, and are stripped of their more masculine features in order to seem beautiful or feminine, or their masculinity are at odds with their femininity, which can perpetuate traditional gender roles, racism, and even transphobia and transmisogyny.
in reality femininity and masculinity arenβt competing opposites, but go hand and hand, and same is the case with blackness and beauty
blue isnβt beautiful in spite of his blackness or masculinity, but rather because of it, and I think thatβs delightful
