thinking about past and present Packbats through character design

We were watching a video about character design that a friend of ours shared and, while very interesting, we actually spent a lot of it thinking about our physical form as a character and what was communicated by its costume design.

Then we started thinking about the "what if your current [selves] met your past self" hypothetical. It'd be pretty easy to make up plausible costumes to highlight the differences.

2005, a skinny college student with an afro, would be wearing a graphic tee (maybe the gray Dominic Deegan one we got once upon a time), a pair of khaki slacks, and a white pair of athletic socks in a mostly-white pair of sneakers. I'm not 100% on the timeline for these but let's also give them a gray flat cap, a mustard-colored windbreaker, and a big black laptop backpack. I'm guessing they have a little bar cell phone with Snake on it.

2021, a more chubby queer goblin with waist-length dreadlocks, would be wearing the same graphic tee under our white-and-green mini dress, leg warmers, and gray socks in hiking boots (which would probably make xem slightly taller than 2005). We'll also give xem our blue windbreaker with the pink highlights, our gray backpack, and our green purse. Xey have an old (which is to say, nine years in the future for 2005) iPhone in a purple case that xey're pretty attached to.

Also, 2021 is happier in xyr skin than 2005 is in theirs. Xey've had a lot more practice taking selfies, but I think xyr smiles are less stiff, and I think that's because xey know xey're trans and are acting on it. That's not something on 2005's radar.

(We had about half a setup for a story that was ... actually impossible, for both 2005!Packbat and 2021!Packbat, and also anachronistic for both them and us.)