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Written by Owlor on 2025-01-30 at 16:51

There are a couple of strategies you can use when creating a nonbinary cartoon character that's supposed to be from the golden age or rubberhose era of cartoons and you want them to be plausibly era-apropriate.

• The Krazy Kat method, have one gender-ambigious character who is in love with another gender-ambigious character and then refuse to elaborate on which of these characters is "the girl", creating a state of quantum superposition where one of them has to be the girl or else it's gay, but the audience have no idea which one.

• All the character knows how to say is their own name, so for all we know that's their gender.

• The character views themselves as entirely singular. If you ask them whether they are a man or a woman, they'll respond with "I'm me!" or "I'm just fabulous!" They never refer to themselves in third person except by their full name and they won't respond to anything other than their full name.

• They are a girl when it's funny, they are a boy when it's funny.

• They are wearing clothing that just a decade or so prior would have been associated with young boys and it's unclear whether they simply did not get the memo that boys generally don't wear dresses anymore.

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