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[boredom_doodles]

I've got a new relative! Exciting! *Throws confetti*

Novelty DVD rewinder. Hilarious, y/y?

Booster Gold #3 was <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3. True Fact. I quite possibly love this spread so much it hurts. Johns and Katz know just how to push all my little, fangirly buttons. :3 I'm not sure I believe this book could be any better. Well, if they rez

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[mari_redstar]

*just passing through, don't mind me, I wiped my feet at the door-*

The thing with the miniskirt, I think, is that it. ah. Provides easy access, so to speak. Also, everybody gets to pretend that the heroine in question isn't wearing anything under it- note how they've put the new Supergirl in a mini instead of the old 1970s shortshorts. They'd show off more, but then they couldn't do the "tee-hee! Kara's not wearing any panties!" tease.

Personally, I was figuring girl!Booster in boy!Booster's costume with a star-shaped boobwindow, because she's from The Future Where We Know Not Of Your Silly Reproductive Taboos, and because she's read all about the history of bodice cutouts in Classic Terra vigilante custom. She wrote a term paper on Power Girl once and admired her a lot (although since she hit the 21st century she's found out that most of her times's scholars had, what with record loss and the Crises, gotten Power Girl well and truly mixed up with Supergirl, with a bit of Nightwing mixed in [a couple of crucial sources had been translated through Tamaranean and back again, losing their pronouns on the way]) and has never quite been able to figure out why Tess thinks it's weird. She doesn't actually have the cup size to pull a bodice cutout off, but then she's never really grokked the purpose of the thing.

Tess, being curvy like whoa, does have the cleavage to pull it off, but much prefers her bodysuit and goggles, and probably would even if she didn't have long-standing body image issues. She has this inexplicable aversion to giving villains big blank unarmored spaces to shoot at. Booster can't quite get her head around it, but then Booster finds the gender politics of this era quaintly and inexplicably whacked, in a way that would probably irritate her no end if she ever managed to understand any of it.

(Yes, I have spent too much time thinking about this. What is this thing you call a life?)

[boredom_doodles]

*Oh, feel free to stay a while, I promise I don't bite much*

She has this inexplicable aversion to giving villains big blank unarmored spaces to shoot at.

*Snickers* Oh, very inexplicable, definitely.

(Oh, don't worry, overthinking the possibilities of various alternate universe is pretty much how I keep myself amused on a day to day basis.)

[mari_redstar]

Not even if I ask politely?

I normally wouldn't have suggested a star-shaped cutout on anyone, since it's not actually possible without strategic application of Superglue, but Booster's suit is, after all, Nifty Future Tech. She might be wearing heels, too- they're much easier to swallow on a flier (who by judicious application of hovering will never actually have to walk in them), our Michaela would have all kinds of fun kicking people in the head with stilettoes on, and, if done right, it would emphasize her height- I'm figuring her for at least six feet in her socks, so the extra three or four inches puts her at a very good level to stare down at anyone making inappropriate comments about her costume. (And she would never let up on teasing Tess, who I'm seeing at about five-foot-three. How's the air down there, Beetle-Girl?)

I think I'd give her short hair, though- hair in your face will probably still be irritating in The Future, and she was an athlete. A ponytail at least? girl!Beetle probably has long hair, since it'll all be kept back under her hood anyway.

Yeah, I... have two entirely separate genderswap AUs running in my head at the moment. Well, I have to entertain myself somehow during art history...

(Oh, and the miniskirt!- if she does have one, can we make it tennis-dress style? I have no words for how much I hate those pleated frilly things they keep putting on fliers. A good athletic-style mini-skort, I could deal with.)

[boredom_doodles]

Michaela? Oh, no, no, no, no, no. If you gender-swap a pair of twins named Michael and Michelle, you end up with a pair of twins named Michelle and Michael. It's only reasonable.

(Actually, I really hate the whole idea of giving genderswapped characters feminized/masculinized names in general. I dunno about you, but if I'd been born a boy, my name wouldn't be Victor, it'd be Benjamin. Honestly, I kind of figure girl!Beetle to be a Patricia, if only because the pattern of Patricia/Patty/Pat matches with the pattern of Theodore/Teddy/Ted.)

I will think about heels. (Something I generally avoid doing. Hurrrr.) On the one side, it does kind of make sense for the character, on the other, well, I also figure her to be about 6 feet or so without so it seems almost overkilly.

I'm surprised that Booster doesn't already pick on Ted in matters of height all the time already, considering that there's probably about half of foot difference there as is. This is why I wish more artists would pay attention to heights. It would practically be a sight gag in and of itself every time you saw Booster and Ted standing side-by-side.

I always figured a ponytail, myself, y'know, but I saw somebody's drawing of a girl!Booster with long, unrestrained hair, and I looked at it, and I said to myself, "Yeah, that works better for her than the ponytail does." I mean, she definitely wore a ponytail while playing her sport o' choice (which I personally figure to be baseball--Booster's a reasonable nickname for a pitcher to receive, I bet), but wears it down otherwise. I dunno, I need to play with it a bit more, I guess.

I gave girl!Beetle a braid. Seemed reasonably practical enough. I figure she wraps it up into a bun out of costume, too, just for the sake of not having the exact same hairstyle in and out of costume. Secret identities ('cuz Ted's so good at that, of course :P) 'n' all that.

(I don't really figure Booster for the pleated, frilly type, anyway.)

[mari_redstar]

See, I thought about calling her Michelle, but it seemed kind of mean to steal Michelle's name! (and confusing, at that.)

I would've been Kevin, although the name I've got is occasionally used for boys anyway. You're right that it doesn't make sense, really- but it is useful for making them recognizable. (Plus, I really want to name Nightwing "Dixie Grayson." It's cute!)

Booster could have several different pairs of shoes? For some reason I always have to remind myself when looking at costumes that it's possible to, well, change clothes- those boots Dinah has on aren't necessarily going to be her boots forever and ever. So Michelle can have stompy boots and being-tall boots, and swap them out in the appropriate situations. I like girl-Beetle's braid! Booster should take the opportunity to drag her around by it occasionally.

You know, girl!Booster's fashion sense should be even weirder than regular Booster's- since she comes from however many years off, she's probably got an idea of "21st century fashion" that's about as detailed as our ideas of Victorian fashion, and is therefore inclined to wander around in a poodle skirt, men's tuxedo jacket, leg warmers, and platform shoes with goldfish in the soles, because everybody knows that's how people dressed back then in the past. (I have a totally unsupported theory that Booster often has to remind himself when clothes shopping not to buy skirts, what with this weird unaccountable social thing where it's only okay for guys to wear them back here in the Dark Ages if the skirts are plaid and if the guy is carrying bagpipes. Booster totally doesn't get it at all! But he'll be darned if he'll give Ted another excuse to laugh at him.)