A little artstyle practice, that's all
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i swear i like never draw mei, i love her sooo so much tho omg
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A rant about why Mei is my favorite “girl character”
Mei is definitely the kind of “girl character” I would have loved to see as a kid. Mainly cause girl isn’t her entire personality, She isn’t just the love interest to the main character, and it doesn’t feel like she was put in the show to be the “girl” of the group. And they did it without making her “not like other girls” which is something many writers (cough cough YA authors) struggle to do.
They also gave her a storyline (season 1 episode 3 Coming Home) that’s very relatable to girls like her who aren’t super fem. They explain in the episode that she feels like her parents want her to be something she’s not, a noble member of the dragon clan, and she’s never been allowed to “ruff and tumble” like the other kids because of expectations put on her to be prim and proper. The message in the end is that her parents still love her even if they don’t see eye to eye and that she can embrace her family history (and her womanhood) in her own way.
My parents were feminists who didn’t really push gender roles and yet throughout my childhood even I felt the pressure put on girls to be feminine. It was in my favorite shows where I felt I had 1-2 options for who I could see myself in even in a cast of 5-7. It was in the way I was told by adults to sit properly. It was even in the way I was dressed, the way other kids saw me. As I got older I felt as if my femininity, my girlhood, was some expectation I couldn’t meet rather than a part of me.
When Mei picks up the dragon sword and looks her ancestors in The eye she says “I am a descendent of the Great Dragon of the West Sea and no one gets to choose what that means for me but myself.” I feel like that is a wonderful message for young girl who has had there femininity questioned or who feels like they don’t meet the standards for girlhood.
Mei says you can be a girl however you want to be a girl and I love that.
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thinking about how cool mei is. why dont we appreciate her more shes so fucking rad
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this MIGHT be the all of the lgbtq+ community in one picture
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i think it’s so fun when u like a character so much that they become a part of ur identity to other ppl
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did Mei know Scar was a serial killer? she's not stupid, she must have figured it out pretty quick, but she obviously did not give a shit. I like to think she was just like not my country not my problem, good luck with your revenge based quest Mr. Scar!!! and then moved on with her day
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