Something I bring up on occasion is that Laefa, while being my primary character and to an extent, fursona, has a lot of traits that people associate with trans masc characters. I genuinely would love to present him as trans masc! But seeing as how I'm not trans myself, I refuse to step on the toes of people who have actually lived that lifestyle with all of the experiences and difficulties it entails. As a result, he is simply a creature with a vagina that uses he/him pronouns.

I'm always worried I'm going to disappoint people expecting similarities from me when it comes to gender and identity. Making him trans masc would feel like a kind of appropriation from me. This is a rule I only hold myself to, I don't care what other people do with their personal characters/sonas!

I'm a very mundane AMAB man (Who frequently toys with the idea of HRT but finds a very hard time getting myself even 60% to a commitment point). I am fine with my gender, I just have specific body issues and fantasies that affected my life in a lot of ways when I was younger. I chose to express that through my art in a fun way

Something about him I've always found fascinating, regarding how others engage with the character, is that I've always tried to draw him from a perspective of "This would be a fun body to have", so it's cool to me seeing how some people want to *fuck* the character and others want to *be* the character (or at least, their shape) and sometimes both! ( please dont steal him for DnD/RP though lmao. Very tiresome how much this has happened ) The intent of almost every picture is for the focus to be on his perspective, so it's interesting how it's the inverse for some people.

I dunno, figured I would point it out because I always get paranoid whenever a lot of people get exposed to my art at once. In this case, I had just recently started up Bsky posting again, and lately threw all my art onto FA after sitting on this account forever.

TL;DR Laefa lacks top scars and the transmasc label because I'm AMAB myself and I don't want to give a false impression of the lived experiences I've had. While I think top scars are very cool, I'm not going to step on the toes of people who have overcome hardship for their identity.