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Slams hands on table. We need more positive representation in fiction of people who just look shitty.
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give me ugly protags. especially female ugly protags.
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and no, "not conventionally pretty" doesn't count.
Echo
Legit.
Legit.
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as an ugly piece of shit, signed
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there was a manga I can't find any images from anymore but it was called SALT
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further caveat that scars no longer count unless they're acne scars. tired of everyone's flawless skin
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and it was, like
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in-universe established canon that the female protag is just ugly
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like she takes her glasses at one point and the male lead looks at her for a quiet moment, like you might get with a series where dumpy girl can magically transform into hot with a few changes
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and is just like "please put those back on'
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and the story wasn't about that at all it was some kind of weird supernatural mystery shit
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where the attractiveness of the protagonist wasn't relevant
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so they just made her be ugly, fuck it
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it was weirdly refreshing
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honestly this is especially egregious in books, where you see it a lot
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every other book has to have a paragraph about how the main character isn't the kind of hot that makes them popular but like, just so you know, she's still pretty hot, in her own way
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it's a fucking book who cares
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I'm not gonna have a panic attack if I don't know that the protag is hot
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/flashbacks to the Dresden Files
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everyone in Dresden Files is super hot
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as a masc-presenting potato person I can find characters of my general shape and lumpiness but 99% of the time in comedies or as comic relief
oh i'm scary
and yet we complain about BBC Sherlock
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Rama
I always figured that the complains there were the particular level of uncanny valley that guy has when he's cleanshaven
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Like I'm not attractive, but I don't think my face has the property of making peoples' eyes try to follow nonexistent lines in the fifth dimension
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for some reason people seem to like the human face Cumberbatch is wearing
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There's actually a nice variety of body types and faces for the MALE characters in the Dresden Files
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are there? I forget
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Totally
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There's old dudes and shrimpy nerd dudes and engagingly ugly fairy dudes
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But all the girls are mega hot bombshells of various flavors
RobotApocalypse
yeah he's right, dresden files has that sexual dimorphism real bad lmao
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the most variety you have is that Murphy's tiny
RobotApocalypse
so she's hot, but look, she's short and petite, so that's different, right
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Murphy is small but hot
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Molly is big but hot
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There was like a minor character in one book that was like
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a half-troll lady?
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And she wasn't described as hot
RobotApocalypse
the only time a lady is really allowed to be not-hot is when it's a red-court vampire with her skin off, it seems
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But then she fucked off at the end of that book and I don't think she ever appeared again
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Yeah then it's specifically so Butcher can be like "BUT THAT INCREDIBLY HOT DISGUISE SHE WORE WAS ONLY AN ILLUSION TO HIDE THE MONSTER UNDERNEATH"
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"THE DISGUISE WAS SO HOT YOU GUYS"
RobotApocalypse
yeah lmfao
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I've been reading the Hilary Tamar mysteries and Hilary is always pretty quick to describe people in terms of how hot they are
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And doesn't describe their own physical appearance at all
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I have concluded that Hilary is a frumpy looking potato
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Anyways this is a valid plurk but also I like making my characters hot
Echo
I mean, also valid.
Echo
Specifically, more valid in your case because you're a dude making OCs for fun instead of a well-known author with a popular book series already out there.
Echo
...and also you have the guts to actually admit you just like looking at hot people.