742mphさんのイラストまとめ

In #gunvolt, ice user Tenjian only opens his eyes in Armed form. Armed forms change your hair and eye color to be fitting for your powers. So, silly headcanon: Tenjian keeps his eyes closed in normal form because they’re a color that clashes with his powers, like warm orange-red.

And that’s all, folks. Remember, the most trustworthy source on the subject of a person’s gender is the person themself. Even if that person is a robot.

Second, Lola’s human forms usually wear thigh-high socks, and in an official LAiX wallpaper she pairs them with a skirt. Skirts, thigh-highs, and the combo thereof are common in anime, of course, but (perhaps relatedly) they’re also memetic in online English transfem communities.

Moving into more specific trans-evoking stuff, we have the rest of the aforementioned Clockwork Daydream. This Japan-exclusive drama CD explores Lola’s relationship with humanity and personhood in a way that parallels many trans girls’ relationships with femaleness.

So I’ve noticed several things about Lola, the sentient combat-drone girl from #gunvolt, that evoke real-life transgender women and their experiences. Are these intentional references? Almost certainly not. But there’s enough to make a notable pattern, so let’s lay them all out.