I’m a newer Aero fan and queer myself. Out of curiosity, was it always the plan for your Dinky to be trans? (I know an older post mentioned him not being a big fan of such a feminine coded cutiemark, and that he’s been called Aero’s brother for a while, but then again I’ve seen a lot of creators it they unintentionally queer coded a character before just outright making it canon or saying the character grew beyond their initial plan)
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No actually! There are few posts in the very beginning of Aero-Replies where Dinky is fine with girly stuff(even in my old Derpy blog but lets not talk about that). Though now I hope people interpret it as Dinky simply “hiding within plain sight” or him being ive of Aero since he might think they’re more alike despite having polar opposite personalities.

Dinky’s overall character is very polar to Aero’s fIamboyantness so I wanted Dinky’s identity to be subtle, and quite a few people did catch on to what I was trying to imply. I wanted to capture what its like being in the closet and dropping hints to people (namely Aero) before feeling comfortable enough to come out. But since Dinky is still somewhat of a secondary character and the focus of the blog is Aero i can understand if some people thought it was left field.

I think the initial idea of having Dinky being trans steamed out of a convo with Glittershell mod and I years ago that i don’t the context of that ended me going “yeah, I’m gonna have Dinky be trans!” and here we are!