Do you have a favorite character design from Lunar Boy?

Oh that's a tough one!! But if I had to pick my fav design in Lunar Boy, I think it would be Aminah!

She took a lot of re-designing, but at the heart of it we wanted a character who embodied cultural non-conformity as a trans girl in Indonesia, someone for Indu (the trans boy main character) to look up to! Her design is me expressing a bunch of my feelings about queer femininity and how it shouldn't be narrowed to traditional femininity for fear that they're not "girl-ing hard enough". I've always disliked the discourse that it's transphobic to show trans girls being any kind of masc or have a body type that's not petite because it sets a standard where only cis people get to dictate how far gender expression and body diversity representation can go.

Aminah is big, buff, butch and yes she's really hairy too, the narrative never questions her girlhood.

If anyone's read my big MAWS essay they'd know that queer reclamation of cultural wear is really important to me. So having Aminah, an Indo butch girl interpret the kebaya in her own way that lets the clothing proudly accentuate her non-conforming body meant the world to me. I find the kebaya very dysphoric and uncomfortable personally so this was like embracing it through art!

Aminah is one of those characters that felt really cathartic to bring to life. I hope people enjoy meeting her!