vin venture fucks with gender in a way that can appeal to like. every single gender group.
at her most basic, she is a woman who learns to fully embrace her womanhood while simultaneously learning not to let it define her.
as a young transmasculine kid, i loved that she could perform gender and enjoy it while never losing the street-hardened awesomeness at her core - simply evolving it.
i know that some transfeminine readers connected to her growing acceptance of her own femininity.
i connected to the weakness and vulnerability she feels around those who are more visibly capable, especially men, and was inspired by how she found her own strength to be greater - and so was my dad, a middle-aged cis(?) man who is similar to me in a lot of ways (physically, personality, interests etc.).
she is, in many ways, a standard hero of the (male-dominated) fantasy genre, with zero concessions based on her gender of what she can and can't do.
she's a brilliant character with so much nuance and i don't think bsandy intended any of this at the time :P
Compilation of mistborn art I’ve made so far while reading the books (I haven’t finished the hero of ages yet so please please please be careful with spoilers!!)
My first attempt ay anything approaching animation. This specifically depicts an Allomancer from the Mistborn series Steelpushing off a thrown coin to launch themselves into the air
(Description below the cut, for redundancy sake. ❤️)
An illustration featuring Vin and TenSoon. Vin is slender and has pale skin and black shoulder-length hair. She wears her mistcloak wrapped around her shoulders, the cape of thin ribbons hanging down around her. Underneath she wears a white blouse, black pants, and black slip-on shoes. The blouse has long sleeves that puff up just below the elbow, closed off by long white cuffs that end just above the wrist.
TenSoon is in his wolf/dog form. He’s tall with shaggy black fur, a proud long snout and pointed ears. Stoic golden eyes look out amid darkness of his fur.
The two are facing each other. TenSoon sits on his haunches, resolute and patient. Vin is kneeling, right leg on the ground, the left stepped forward for balance. Her right arm hangs down, the hand resting on the right leg. Her left hand is up, cupping the bottom of TenSoon’s muzzle in a tender gesture of affection, as though holding his head up so that she can look at him, and he can look at her. Vin looks at him with a soft smile, mouth lightly parted to show her teeth, as though she’s laughing, though a little sad. It’s not really a goodbye. Not yet.
They’re surrounded by mist, lit from all around, but more-so from behind, a soft iridescent rainbow halos around them. Subtle beams of light from an unknown source scatter from the center of the scene, right between them.
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