>>52822473I like soft bodies. It doesn't matter the shape as long as I can imagine pressing the middle or thighs has some squish. Relaxed muscle has squish, so it's not just chubby or skinnyfats. Guzma got a lot of art that made him look like the comfiest thing to throw yourself at. Some artists took it further giving him chub or muscle, or both, and I liked pretty much all of it. I'll go to different characters for different variations, but if they're too smooth and flat or bony it's a let down. Even a young man with visible ribs can have muscular thighs from walking or a hint of podge from bad eating habits.
>>52831432>The mute thing was edgeI'm so oblivious I just thought it was moe or a funny in joke, his Masters line about not needing words to communicate was 10/10 for me.
In my high school pokemon and all cartoons were considered "for children" so you couldn't be caught dead knowing a single thing about them (in 2000 and fucking 2, like we'd have forgotten), let alone making fanfiction reimaginings or theories. I want to say everyone skipping to Resi and GTA as little kids meant there was no need for grimdark interpretations of child friendly content but I know from the stigma I found at university it wasn't a common experience. I think I was in sixth form by the time creepypasta romhacks were about but I don't remember even glancing at them, so I completely missed that trend. Could this explain why I think fanon Red is primarily cute or goofy? I think SuMo fanworks really emphasised the difference in how JP and KR fans saw mute Reds compared to places like /vp/ where the average anon isn't looking at cutesy shipping art but did experience that need to prove your childhood interests were cool and mature like the cool and mature individual your 14-year-old self definitely was. It's just that in my case, no game or cartoon counted for that, so 14-year-old me wasn't trying it with pokemon.
