1 and 11 for Adonis and Jude for the opinion corner meme!! ☺️

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1. where did you get your idea for them?

i got the idea for Jude during my Marvel hyper-fixation summer. that was also around the same time i read A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi, i believe? and i just got very frustrated with how bad representation is for muslim women. and i was like...you know what? i'm gonna make my own representation. and it was particularly easy for be inspired for Jude at the time bc it was Ramadan and i was drowning in the muslim vibes, fasting and praying more than usual and all that. i remember it took me a long time to figure out what my muslim superhero's power would be. i don't know how i landed on Alien Blob Friend Who Gives You Super-strength and Endurance. but what i do remember is coming up with Jude's family. she needed to have some sort of family drama (bc which of my muses don't?), but i didn't want to play into the conservative/misogynistic/abusive muslim dad trope. i honestly would have rather DIED than gone with that, so i decided to do the opposite: toxic mom. and i started building from there.

Adonis, like Zoran, was a product of his time. i believe it was 15yo me who started RPing Althea on tumblr and then decided to make a "genderbent" verse for her, and the result was Adonis. @iincantatorum helped me massively with his creation proccess, actually!!! and just like with Zoran, Adonis became his own person. i was in the proccess of doing my SATs and deciding what college i wanted to go to and all that stuff, so my arab dad's expectations (he wanted me to study medicine) bled right into Adonis' character, making him who he is today.

11. what’s something that you don’t get to express with your oc often?

with Jude, I don't really get to express her religious side often. i guess some people may feel that her religious side is expressed well enough bc she's a hijabi, but...that's not really an all-encompassing aspect of religion? i don't get to write Jude much, and when i do, it's usually her superhero side. i don't get to express everyday Jude, trying to find somewhere quiet to pray in uni, trying to tie her hair in several directions at home bc the roots have been locked in one way under her scarf all day. i don't get to write the Jude that talks about her mom or sings arabic songs under her breath while doing the dishes. i don't get to write the Jude that helps her father read an english children's book and playfully insults her brother in passing. i guess i just really want to write domestic Jude.

as for Adonis, i feel like i don't get to express his reliable side much. sure, he's fragile as glass and very emotional and lets people use him as a doormat, but he's actually... like, dude, he's a grown adult man. he's great with his patients at the hospital, he's a lovely and reliable coworker, he can cook and take care of other people. that's the side Pearl brings out in him in verse 2. when he's alone, he doesn't really bother to take care of himself. but when his daughter is there, he has to cook every day and spend time relaxing with her and playing some games and just-- doing things that are good for the soul and taking care of a whole human child. in most threads, Adonis is this helpless man-child that everybody loves bc he's nice and soft and horny, but he's so much more than that