Original DA Upload Date: September 7, 2021
Introducing a new side to the character you and most of the rest of Grunvale had only known as a boar named August… the more feminine side of the enby mephitine Auggie Lowry.
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I’ve had quite well-established by now that April Lowry, the mephitine fashionista of the Oddball Tetrad, is a lesbian. However, she’s not the only LGBTQIA child of Carol Moss-Lowry and Johnathan Lowry. Now’s also time to reveal that her twin sibling, Auggie, born August, is non-binary. Specifically, genderfluid. They use any pronouns, including he/him, she/her, and they/them. Sometimes they feel more male and thus more comfortable identifying as ‘August’, sometimes more female and preferring ‘Augustine’, and sometimes they feel somewhere in between.
Only a select few members of the Lowry and Moss families know Auggie to be genderfluid, all the more politically liberal ones. Among them, of course, is their twin sister April, the only member of the Tetrad who knows about Auggie’s gender identity. Auggie plans to come out to the rest of the Tetrad next, but is most afraid of the reaction on Margo’s side. Not from Margo herself, though. Auggie knows Margo is accepting of the LGBTQIA community. Why else would she be friends with their sister, after all?
No, it’s Margo’s extended family from the Ketcham side they’re worried about. They know for a fact that some of them (not all of them) such as Sally and Richard Sr. have conservative views, in some cases including views that would be regarded as transphobic. They don’t know yet if the other Ketchams are accepting of transgender and enby individuals, let alone the idea of one of their own dating one. So until Auggie finds the right time to come out to the rest of the Tetrad, they’re gonna wait until the rest of the Ketchams, or at least those close to Sally, have gotten to know them better than they do.
On a side note, Auggie isn’t worried about Margo’s great-grandfather, Charles. He may be 99, but Auggie knows about what he did whenhe landed on Rhinormandy. And what he did, is enough to convince them that he wouldn’t mind his great-granddaughter dating an enby.
Anyways, now to the piece!
The idea of Auggie being an enby has actually been headcanoned by me for a long time; their longer hair and eyeliner from four years later was meant to be an allusion to that, and set at a time after they had come out publicly. Of course, April knows long before most others do, and is the first Auggie comes out to, due to her being a lesbian, which they assume (correctly) would mean she would be accepting of them being genderfluid. Auggie has worn things like dresses and make-up and high heels before, but mostly for April to see how it would look on herself, since they’re twins and she doesn’t like wearing anything she knows won’t look good on her. However, Auggie likes how they look in feminine clothes, and sometimes would prefer to wear them. And their sister April is here to help them with a feminine outfit all their own!
The usual tricks are all here; the floor skewed to resemble dimension, parts of the shag carpeting drawn over the feet to add realism, and the mirror pulled off with a few effects to resemble smudges and scratches, like those you’d find on an actual mirror. The wall is even perfectly selected to show where a reflection would realistically be. As for the wall decorations, they’re a pixelated version of what is probably April’s phone background, and a logo I thought up for the Tetrad, that was originally part of an ambigram combining all their names. I decided to use only the first character as the Tetrad’s logo, and here, the part of the logo representing April is highlighted in cyan. It’s supposed to be shaped like the letter ‘A’. You… can probably find the G, M, and W on your own if you look hard enough.
Anyways, that’ll be all for this one. Until next time, take care.
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