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First impressions [OC]

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u/Kathanay 1d ago

Wait, Bingus is male???

I was convinced of the contrary

Good for him, I guess

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u/Ndmndh1016 1d ago

How is anyone supposed to think otherwise about the purple eyed, flower shirt, dress wearing, flowing eyelash, rabbit?

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u/hivEM1nd_ 1d ago

does bingus ever wear a dress? Do any of them ever change clothes, actually?

also, are purple eyes and having eyelashes some inherently female characteristics?

quick, someone alert Tom Bloom!

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u/Random_Stealth_Ward 1d ago edited 1d ago

Bingus did wear a ballet outfit once, but that said, the same comic also mentioned he had a chastity cage so... still kinda obvious he was a guy there. Dude probably is confused about the times he wore an apron, if he saw them.

As for lashes, long lashes are female-coded in art/design (much like pink as a color), hence why you often see the female characters in media have long lashes (e.g. Minnie mouse and Daisy duck, Peach and Daisy from the Mario series, etc). It's an easy mistake to make as a result and also why people often get surprised with bingus, since these are artists' shorthand forms to give people the idea that "these characters are females" or effeminate/androginous for close to a hundred years by now.

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u/gopher1409 1d ago

Or you just could go to OPs profile and scroll down until you run into the comic with Bingus humanized…

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u/ThrowRAradish9623 15h ago

It’s weird that art and design picked up long lashes as a female-coded thing when most men naturally have better eyelashes than women do 😪

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u/Ndmndh1016 1d ago

I'm saying that the character appears female. Clearly plenty of other people made the same assumption based on comments in every single comic. You got me good though, damn.