(I’m A Hispanic Woman For Context) I Can Also See Fem! Jayce Plucking Her Eyebrows So They Don’t

(I’m a Hispanic woman for context) I can also see fem! Jayce plucking her eyebrows so they don’t look thick, shaving everyday, and straightening her hair everyday even though it’s naturally wavy/curlier (pretty much trying to conform to societal femininity so she’d be taken seriously)

So after being trapped in the arcane, her eyebrows are thicker and her hair is noticeable not straight. Like Jayce, she’s not bogged down by being the golden girl, so she cuts her hair to be the length Jayce has his at the end of the series etc

Oh I LOVE THIS SO MUCH!! Yeah a big inspiration for my take on fem!Jayce is this absolutely STUNNING Hispanic woman I have as a colleague, she's always perfect, perfect hair, perfect eyebrows, perfect outfits, perfect makeup, and she has the same complexion and hair as Jayce.

I absolutely agree on the plucked eyebrows to thin them out, I keep emphasizing that at least my vision for fem!Jayce isn't just "Jayce with boobs" like, no, it's about keeping to restrictive gendered beauty standards regardless of presenting as masculine or feminine.

Like, Jayce isn't just a dude, he presents as a very specific kind of clean cut, socially acceptable but still very masculine guy. Fem!Jayce, by contrast, would IMO present as socially acceptable feminine until s/he stopped giving a fuck after the Anomaly Future. Like, no matter how you slice it, a huge part of Jayce's is arc is getting to the moment where he says, "With respect, I don't give a shit what any of you think about me anymore."

So yes yes yes, I absolutely love the image of the long straightened hair, the plucked eyebrows, and I've mentioned before, the perfect makeup, the perfect high society dresses at events with the Talis House sigil emblazoned on it, spending a ton of time getting her appearance right so she is Taken Seriously.

And then, finally, after the Anomaly Future when she'd just focused on saving Viktor (or Viktoria?) and saving the world, fuck it, fuck all of it, she's wearing a widow's black shirt and pants just like male Jayce, she's stopped plucking her eyebrows, there's no makeup, no painted nails (that she once did to hide the soot from the forge), she's cutting her hair short or tying it back and there's no more straightening it, she's wearing armor and she's on a mission and she doesn't give a fuck what anyone thinks about her.