19 hours ago, Mychal'el said:Ok, no matter. I just assumed Rai was female.
According to your character sheets, Korath is a 5'6" white male with tanned skin, whereas Rai is a 5'3" human with fair, lightly tanned skin. They both have long brown hair. Why play two characters that look so similar unless one is a younger clone or the opposite gender?
Male writers tend to use the word "fair" instead of "white" when discribing women. Males also tend to prefer women to be slightly if not considerably shorter than themselves.
And the phrase " gal livanting across the galaxy alone" sounds like a domaneering father barking at his disloyal daughter, whereas the male writer would discribe a young man "bravely adventuring across the galaxy on his own."
But the fact that you haven't revealed Rai's gender yet, as if it's a big deal, and you are so confident about how carefully you've guarded that secret, is a glaring clue in itself.
Am I wrong?
Actually, As for Rei (spelled R - E - I ) also being short, I have multiple characters of both genders who are tall, short, and everywhere in between. Of the three major female characters in the comic I'm writing, one is 5' tall, one if 5'7" tall, and one is 5'11" tall. Og my main male characters, one is 6'6" , one is 6'4" , one is 5'6" , and one is 5'3" .
As for Korath's height, and hair, Korath is physically based literally on me . Korath is me. I even cosplay as him.
As for similaritiesa betwen them, if you look again, their only similarities are being caucasian, with similar hair color and being below average in height. There are a lot more differences than similarities. Korath has brown eyes, Rei has blue . Korath has a stockier build, Rei is slimmer. Rei is Mandalorian, Korath is not.
As for using "Fair" skin, both sexes can have a fair complexion. All a "Fair" complexion means is that it is very light and easily sunburned (How to determine skin tone) , so probably not what I originally intended. It should probably be a light complexion, rather than a "fair" one. It is also used to describe either gender .
As for whether or not I'm keeping Rei's gender a secret, is my business. There are a lot of things about this character I'm keeping under wraps until the character is revealed. And it is up to me to decide what I want to reveal ahead of time, not anyone else. Those secrets aren't for people to make guesses about, or to try and spoil for others. They are for me to reveal when I choose to reveal them.
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